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From June 2024
The idea aims at using persuasive technology to address health issues like bulimia, anorexia, and psychopathic behaviors. It proposes to use a legal framework to ensure the ethical and responsible use of this technology and expose the clear advantage doing so. The concept of a "Digital Red Cross" is introduced as a potential entity that could leverage this technology for the benefit of individuals and society. It also push these questions forward :
Legal Framework : How can a legal framework be designed to balance the potential benefits of persuasive technology with the need to protect individual autonomy and privacy ?
Public Acceptance : How can public acceptance and trust in such a system be gained ? Would it be acceptable for this badly used technology to move toward these new uses ?
Persuasive tech services like Cambridge Analytica are used out of legal framework and are root to scandals like in 2016 — for advanced ethical, freedom and free will inquiries.
However theses services could be moved to be useful to create empowerment and health support for a greater number of people. To work this issue, a legal framework could be produced — would it be regulated by states or supra-national treaties.
Dreaming away, this new services may be named like "Digital Red Cross" or "Cambridge Health" — as new entities that could use their digital "impact-on-choice" capacities to deliver bio-digital care to end user, freely for them, as a service for states.
For example : Once a supra-national legal framework has been established, new use of persuasive tech could serve to rule out bulimic and anorexic disorders or psychopathic behaviors. Nonetheless users' consent is really important, for example to comply with the RGPD.
From a user' agreement side, things could be proposed like that :
By using this service, we are likely to guide your choices in order to avoid or moderate the listed behaviors :
Self-aggressiveness
Psychopaths tendency
Food-linked disorders : bulimia, anorexia
Other : narcissism, group-bullying behaviors, etc.
A permanent hotline could be created to answer users' inquiries.
Also, for this new persuasive tech use, the potential market maybe way greater and definitely legal — reducing the risk of charges and pursuit.
CreArt answer for the prompt : « Ordinateur qui soigne un internaute », see here for a study about effect of the Ocean on health
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