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Towards successful industrial policy on AI in healthcare : establishing the conditions for future public benefit

Maggor, Erez and Tucker, Jason Edward LU (2025)
Abstract
This paper explores how pro-active government policies could promote artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare for the public good. Building on insights from the literature on industrial policy, we argue that without clear conditions and guardrails to ensure future public benefit, state assistance and subsidies will be nothing more than corporate welfare with unpredictable, if any, societal benefit. We provide a few concrete examples of this and then conclude by reflecting on how industrial policy can be a useful conceptual lens to challenge techno-solutionism, increase accountability and situate AI healthcare policies in the broader political-economy.
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Working paper/Preprint
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published
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keywords
Industrial policy, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Corporate welfare, Healthcare, Public Interest, Conditionality, Futures
pages
7 pages
publisher
AIPEX - AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
DOI
10.63439/PFRX3762
project
Politics of AI & Health: From Snake Oil to Social Good - Funded by Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS)
language
English
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yes
additional info
The authors contributed equally to this work.
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c0e8c976-b079-428c-ae13-416305c4897b
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2025-03-20 13:18:08
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