Thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence, what used to be sci-fi fantasy is now reality: robots can now teach, provide therapy, and administer care in hospitals and other medical facilities. But as Anna Romina Guevarra, associate professor and director of Global Asian Studies at University of Illinois Chicago, asks, should they? In her August 2, 2021 essay in Boston Review, Guevarra explores issues of labor and bias to determine the “potential harm of automating care work.”
Anna Romina Guevarra, "Here Come the Robot Nurses," Boston Review, 2 August 2021.