2.4 Non-Discrimination and Equity
How will data labelled as Black, poor, disabled or all three impact
a person’s insurance rates? Current legislation will not protect
patients from this type of algorithmic discrimination. Only updated
data laws can protect us from the perils of monetized data and the
discriminatory algorithms they are generating.
- LLana James303
- LLana James303
Key themes concerning non-discrimination and equity in the mental health context, include that:
- AI and other algorithmic technologies can perpetuate existing mental health and disability-based discrimination by encoding social attitudes and relations into algorithms.
- Algorithmic and data-driven technologies can feed into and potentially exacerbate disability-based discrimination by human systems and institutions
- Technology is often designed without awareness of existing discrimination/bias/fairness issues concerning mental health and disability.
- The possibility of discriminatory or biased outcomes is exacerbated by the general exclusion of people with lived experience and psychosocial disabilities from the creation, design, development and governance of technologies that are purportedly designed to benefit them