Architecting Utopias: How AI in Healthcare Envisions Societal Ideals and Human Flourishing

要旨

Many narratives around AI systems promise a utopian vision of empowerment, inclusivity, and democratization, yet there remains a gap in how to concretely pursue such a promise. In this paper, we review and analyze a curated set of AI-driven healthcare products, leveraging sociologist Ruth Levitas' three distinct but interrelated forms of utopian thinking—archaeology, ontology, and architecture. We contribute to HCI's Human-AI Interaction agenda by applying this theory to critically examine how AI technologies embed societal ideals, shape user identities, and project alternative futures. This allows us to consider the values and users these systems illustrate as images of the ``good society.'' In doing so, we also make visible the normativity and repetitive nature of technology hype cycles and raise important questions about the future these technologies are shaping.

著者
Catherine Wieczorek
Georgia Tech University , Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Heidi Biggs
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Kamala Payyapilly Thiruvenkatanathan
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Shaowen Bardzell
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713118

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713118

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会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Sustainable Individual, Society, and Environment

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