The ethics of AI sociotechnical systems in global development: choice, power, and justice
Journal: Journal of Global Ethics
The 2025 UNDP Human Development Report, A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI (UNDP, 2025), makes a timely and important contribution. It brings AI into the human development agenda, insists on the centrality of human agency in shaping technological futures, and raises concerns that are too often absent from mainstream AI discourse: the mental health consequences of technology for young peopl…