PSYC FPX 3540 assessment 3 Controversial Topic Position Paper

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Capella University 

PSYC FPX 3540 

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December, 2024

Controversial Topic Position Paper 

One of the topics currently receiving the most attention on the ethical perspectives of AI in health care is the autonomy of the patient and data privacy. AI’s proponents say boosts the diagnosis’s precision, decreases bureaucracy, and delivers customized approaches to enhance the results in the health system (Lu et al., 2024). Critics argue it vitiates the principle of ethical dilemmas, explores inequitable bias in AI algorithms as a tool for discriminating treatment, leads to compromising patients’ consent via covert data practices, and dethrones humanitarian empathies substituting AI technology. AI and its deployment remain the only instruments capable of delivering fully transformed, or fully enchained, possibilities with stringent ethical supervision. This includes making conscious and deliberate efforts to make the algorithm as open and efficient as possible, ensuring that people who need the help of AI in accessing care get it, and creating this multi-disciplinary effort that recognizes the technical work being done but at its core is about health care. To overcome such challenges, AI will become a major asset for enhancing patients’ care in a way that will not violate ethical standards.

Racial Segregation and Gentrification 

Racial segregation and gentrification continue to be linked and thus help perpetuate more inequality in cities. Gentrification is well defined as urbanization, although still excluding people of color; invariably, it displaces the ethnic community through escalating housing costs and population redistribution. It thus reinforces racial polarisation; forcing vulnerable population categories to resource-scarce regions, deepening further the poverty and exclusion traps as far as fundamental needs such as education and health care are concerned. In this regard, the concept advocates that gentrification is going to have positive impacts on the economy and that the development of better structures is going to be realized. However, it most often benefits more negatively the rich, predominantly white arrivals who came to ‘revitalize’ the very area where black communities established culture. The problem requires resolution through equitable policies in the spatial reality through the protection of affordable shelter, pro-provisioning of community development, and representation in urban decision-making. Otherwise, reviving nothing but the poison of segregation and the continuation of racism in cities, these measures alone can revitalize cities.

Economic Segregation and Gentrification 

Gentrification and economic segregation cannot be separated as they both point to structures that exist in an economy and add spectators to how cities are developed. Gentrification generally begins with middle-class people moving into poor neighborhoods, prices of property and rents soar, and businesses change (Curci & Yousaf, 2023). Still, some claim that gentrification revitalizes long-abandoned spaces and brings investments as well as upgrades infrastructure while simultaneously making these issues worse for the economic divide. Having been raised and raised families in low-income homes, tenants are subsequently evicted either by expensive housing or by the changing community environment that socializes them out of the community. Due to displacement, most of these people are left with no option but to look for an area that is even more backward in terms of resources and opportunities hence poverty and social inequality circles continue. Economic segregation constructs polarized cities with agglomerated affluent zones and funding v prey on insufficiently funded areas. Such measures that policymakers may use in addressing such problems include; rent control, affordable housing, and inclusionary zoning. The other is public participation in planning to ensure that re-development is for the common good without compromising the economically weak to get growth that does not expand the gap. He emphasizes that the system of integration gives the idea of integration of racial and or socioeconomic diversity at the corporate, school, or community levels but conceals structural racism at the base (Green & Malcolm, 2023).

The Illusion of Integration 

The illusion of integration illustrates surface-level racial or socioeconomic inclusiveness in schools, workplaces, and communities, but with structural inequalities existing beneath the surface  (Green & Malcolm, 2023). While there are commendable milestones that have been achieved by civil rights legislation and anti-discrimination policies, many establishments are color and income divided, housing segregated, and influenced by sub-conscious prejudices. For example, the schools may seem racially integrated and be a diverse community but become racially inequitable through receiving/risking funds disproportionately, using punishment differing for students of color, and achieving academic disparities. The same can be said of workplaces: they could pencil down impressive figures of diversity and still not distort the top management, or those in the minority (Annunziata et al., 2021). It makes society lazy as such mechanisms enable people to claim to be progressive without ever working on the effort embedded in engineering real equality. To dispel this illusion, institutions must think past the diversity plaques and venture to purposely redress the outputs of those oppressive systems. This consists of strategies and practices that promote fair and equal distribution of resources as well as eliminate prejudice against differences concerning classes of people. 

Unfulfilled Promises of Gentrification 

Gentrification poses as the rescuer of the city by allowing getting richer and have better infrastructure, and more jobs for everyone in the city (Schnake et al., 2020). However, such promises are rarely delivered to the long-time low-income residents who are negatively affected by gentrification. New homeowners and renters with more money come to formerly abandoned areas and demand better housing prices and fees than some first-rate dwellers can pay. This displacement obliterates our history and, segregation of people, billions displaced have fewer resources and opportunities in their new places. Most new developments in public areas, schools, and enterprises can originate from gentrification and are ordinarily targeted at the genuine needs of the newcomers while offering little or no recompense to the initial inhabitants for historic neglect. Moreover, because of the exclusion of residents on policies without concerning any new creation, most jobs and economies are out of reach for the poorest, including the gentrification claims of housing to a good level and other provisions on tenancies hence, shall not lead to gentrification if rights of its occupants are addressed. 

PSYC FPX 3540 assessment 3 Conclusion 

Gentrification as an approaching answer to urban decay is not a panacea, as it hides worse vices that reject the notions of touch improvement and inclusion. Racism and economic disadvantage over the myth of the applicability of development in gentrification interlock the institutional impediments to improved living standards of gentrification affected people in various regions (Williamson et al., 2020). A transformation like this is generally used to solidify cleavages of class and also to displace communities and erase ethnic history. It hides realities: In any case, the structural imbalances are still hidden behind the masks of integration. We can highlight these matters through the policies that will promote affordable housing, resource provision, and community engagement in urban development. 

PSYC FPX 3540 assessment 3 References 

Curci, F., & Yousaf, H. (2023). Gentrification. Springer EBooks, 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_422-1

Schnake, A. S., Jahn, J. L., Subramanian, S. V., Waters, M. C., & Arcaya, M. (2020). Gentrification, neighborhood change, and population health: a systematic review. Journal of Urban Health, 97(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-019-00400-1

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Lu, H., Alhaskawi, A., Dong, Y., Zou, X., Zhou, H., Abdullah Ezzi, S. H., Kota, V. G., Hasan Abdulla Hasan Abdulla, M., & Abdalbary, S. A. (2024). Patient Autonomy in Medical Education: Navigating Ethical Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing. https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580241266364 

Hwang, J. (2020). Gentrification without Segregation? Race, Immigration, and Renewal in a Diversifying City. City & Community. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12419 

Annunziata, S., Lees, L., & Alonso, C. R. Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification. 497-515. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119316916.ch23