The Ethics of AI Identity Matching in Humanitarian Aid: When Perfect Consent Meets Impossible Choices
The Ethical Trap
“If I have to go to a person in Yemen who is in famine and say I want you to give me your informed consent to share this information to an AI model I didn’t create, that’s on a server in America to do something that I don’t really understand and it will help me do my work and if you don’t give me that informed consent you can just not get food or life saving assitance…”