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Record W4412738298 · doi:10.7202/1118902ar

Mental Health, AI-based Care Robots and Fair Access to Healthcare

2025· article· en· W4412738298 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mario Kropf

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Bioethics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEthics and Social Impacts of AI
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthcareHealth careMental healthMental health careComputer scienceRobotNursingInternet privacyMedicineArtificial intelligencePsychiatryPolitical science

Abstract

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Health is usually seen as an important prerequisite for the realization of life goals and therefore has a great meaning in society. Many authors and their perspectives also make it clear that health can be seen as a moral value that is ethically relevant and must be promoted. In recent years, numerous crises, armed conflicts, digitalization and, more generally, the fast pace of life in society, have contributed to raise awareness of mental health. This article deals with an ethical analysis of mental health in the context of AI-based care robots. Robot companions in the care sector are increasingly being used, and this trend will continue in the near future. However, the question arises as to what extent these machines can contribute to mental health when interacting with people receiving care. First, the relevance of mental health and ethical implications are presented. In a second step, care robots and their potential influence on the mental health of individuals in need of care are discussed. The third step shows how fair access to the value of (mental) health can be realized, even and perhaps because care robots are increasingly assigned to care for people. Finally, ethical challenges are discussed, and possible objections are addressed. The focus is ultimately on the importance of care robots, since they can address the issue of mental health, at least to some extent, in a specific technical way.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0070.058
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0060.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.098
GPT teacher head0.475
Teacher spread0.377 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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