AI in Care: Augmentation or Depletion?
Hybrid event
In this seminar, we explore how care is augmented or depleted by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI technologies are often positioned by the UK Government (and governments elsewhere) as a ‘solution’ to high levels of unmet care needs and poor working conditions and pay in the sector. Critiquing this position, we analyse: how AI technologies are funded and implemented in care in England; how neoliberal New Public Management discourses underlie the connection between AI and efficiency; and how these discourses omit to consider ethics and production processes behind technologies, which are where we see harms and the depletion of care.

Booking is required for people outside of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (DSPI).
DSPI Members do not need to register.
Date: 20 February 2025, 16:00
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Speakers: Professor Kate Hamblin (Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities, University of Sheffield), Dr Grace Whitfield (Centre for International Research on Care, Labour & Equalities, University of Sheffield)
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organisers: Dr Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford), Professor Mary Daly (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of: DSPI Hilary Term Seminar Series 2025: Perspectives on Care
Booking required?: Required
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Faith Inch, Zoe Burns