Human Freedom from Algorithmic Bias: What is the role of Accountability in addressing Health Disparities?

While there are many causes of health disparities, the application of Artificial Intelligence tools in healthcare may have mixed results. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of human freedoms and accountability to achieving digital inclusion. It discovers the role of algorithmic bias in mediating the relationship between human freedom and mobile health. The following research questions are investigated: 1) How do human freedoms effect digital inclusion and mobile health? 2) Do human freedoms effect mobile health? And 3) Does AI accountability mediate the relationship between human freedoms and mobile health? The findings suggest that human freedoms are central to digital inclusion and mobile health. Accountability does affect the extent to which digital inclusion can be achieved through human freedoms. AI accountability significantly mediates the relationship between human freedoms and the mobile index. This offers an important contribution in uncovering the role of algorithmic bias in human freedom and mobile health, and of accountability between human freedom and digital inclusion.