Understanding Harm Generated by Analytic Technique Bias from the Afro-communitarian Perspective

This primarily normative article draws on three ideas – exclusivism, (transformative) inclusivism and incompleteness/conviviality – grounded in Afro-communitarian thinking – to argue that isolation/alienation, minimization, and essentialism are three distinct forms of harm that analytic technique bias (that results from training data and human actions) may generate. Since the healthcare context will be a leading consumer of these new techniques, this study recommends that future studies focus on outlining how various traditions or moral frameworks can increase our understanding of the ways analytic techniques can give rise to what forms of harm and how harms related to analytic techniques bias may be prevented.