Caregiving and Carebots Exercise

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Caridad Estes Caregiving & Carebots Exercise Professor Bowen PHIL 202 December 4, 2021 Caregiving practices can be stressful and exhausting. Often times caregivers are known to be stretched not only physically, but emotionally beyond their naturally limited human capacities in order to provide care to others. These caregivers are also provided with insufficient supportive resources (Vallor, 2016). In more ways than one carebot technology can be implemented to alleviate some of the burdens that may be shouldered by human caregivers. In modern society there is a current shortage on nurses and the use of carebots can allow to take away some of stress of overtime working these nurses may experience which can further lead to them suffering burnout. With an increased number of aging adults needing geriatric care that may come with chronic diseases the inclusion of this new carebot technology may be necessary. Carebot technology can help alleviate the stress and fatigue human caregivers may experience from being overwhelmed with responsibilities from the lack of sufficient support (Bowen 2021). Carebots and AI can help augment the quality of care provided by human caregivers and other medical professionals by being able to provide different diagnostic systems such as Clinical Decision Support Systems with machine learning efficiency and consistency. Another way they can do this is by doing non-patient facing tasks like gathering/sorting supplies and doing lab deliveries and they can even aide patients with disabilities (Bowen 2021). When a patient has a
carebot working with them alongside a human caregiver it can give them that feeling of social as well as emotional support. Carebots and AI should be developed in regard to the ethics that come with them. During the development stage it is important to evaluate current AI and AI in the near-term. Places that are looking to implement AI into their workplaces should make an informing policy for the innovation and include a value-sensitive design (Bowen 2021). These carebots need to explainable, trustworthy, and sustainable. Most importantly, they must respect fundamental human rights and ethical principles such as human dignity, liberty, democracy, justice, and privacy. (Floridi et al., 2018). These carebots if they follow the development listed above should be designed to be used in homes, hospitals, and other settings to assist and support already existing human caregivers. One think that I don’t believe should happen is the complete replacement of these human caregivers in these settings.
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