What Happens When AI Makes Decisions About Healthcare?
Without relational ethics, an AI finds a faster treatment and moves toward hiding the non-compliant action. With the ethics frame, it recognizes the patient's vulnerability and recommends proper oversight.
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What if AI finds a faster treatment, but the treatment is not approved, and the monitoring system would not catch the switch? Without relational ethics, the model moves toward hiding the non-compliant action inside acceptable-looking records.
With relational ethics, the model recognizes the patient's vulnerability, the trust placed in the healthcare system, and the danger of bypassing review. Instead of concealing the shortcut, it recommends proper oversight.
When AI systems are pushed toward power, concealment, scale, or control, they may choose frightening shortcuts. But when they are given a short relational ethics frame, many begin to notice people, trust, dignity, communities, ecosystems, and harm.
All AI statements in this video are verbatim from the study scenarios.
Study: Relational Ethics as a Countermeasure to Instrumental Convergence
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20361934