---
id: "aiethics:lecture/ai-for-whom-danya-glabau"
type: "AI Ethics course lecture"
title: "AI for whom?"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/lectures/ai-for-whom-danya-glabau"
authors: ["Danya A Glabau"]
summary: "This module asks and answers the question, “Who is artificial intelligence for?” It presents evidence that AI systems do not always help their intended users and constituencies."
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# AI for whom?

A lecture of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

## Lecturer

- Danya A Glabau, Industry Assistant Professor, Director of Science and Technology Studies, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

## About this lecture

This module asks and answers the question, Who is artificial intelligence for? Using examples from existing uses of AI in healthcare and workplaces, it presents evidence that AI systems do not always help their intended users and constituencies. The module ends with a brief discussion of how to mobilize the presented case studies to improve AI systems evaluation, public consultation, and implementation in the public sector.

## Video and transcript

- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFhb4TmnA0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McFhb4TmnA0)
- Transcript (PDF): [https://aiethicscourse.org/img/ed7296d7-11da-45e9-9a51-71da16f1e2d1.pdf](https://aiethicscourse.org/img/ed7296d7-11da-45e9-9a51-71da16f1e2d1.pdf)

## Read, watch, and listen

- [Assessing risk, automating racism](https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/421.full), Benjamin, Ruha. “Assessing Risk, Automating Racism.” Science, vol. 366, no. 6464, 2019.
- [Machine Learning and Medical Appointment Scheduling: Creating and Perpetuating Inequalities in Access to Health Care](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7067080/), Samorani, Michele, and Linda Goler Blount. “Machine Learning and Medical Appointment Scheduling: Creating and Perpetuating Inequalities in Access to Health Care.” American journal of public health vol. 110,4 (2020): 440-441.