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ArticleThe Gerontologist2025

The AI-aging-enterprise: a political economy of aging and artificial intelligence.

Vera Gallistl, Clara Berridge, Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday, Justyna Stypinska, Anita Ho, Robin N Brewer, Alisa Grigorovich, Alexander Peine, Anna Wanka

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Article in The Gerontologist, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Vera GallistlCenter for Gerontology and Health Research, Department General Health Studies, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0116-0677
Clara BerridgeSchool of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4218-9556
Muneeb Ul Lateef BandayInterdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies (IZFG), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0612-0620
Justyna StypinskaBerlin Social Science Center (WZB), Berlin, Germany.
Anita HoBioethics Program, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States.
Robin N BrewerSchool of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
Alisa GrigorovichRecreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5363-7396
Alexander PeineFaculty of Humanities, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Anna WankaDepartment for Educational Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Hessen, Germany.

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Vienna Science and Technology Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) in gerontology remains mostly on an interventionist level and focused on solving problems faced by individuals, leaving the wider social conditions that shape the relationship between aging and AI out of view. The considerable accumulation of power, particularly for technology development companies, in the development and implementation of AI, however, calls for a deeper and more complex analysis of the relationships between AI, older adults and the "aging enterprise." Building on the classical political economy of aging, and expanding it with concepts from material gerontology, we propose a "political economy of aging and AI" as a conceptual tool to analyze the relationships between (older) individuals, social and political structures, and (technological) materialities. We exemplify how such a political economy perspective enables a more complex consideration of the current discourse on (a) AI solutions, (b) AI ethics, and (c) AI policies. We close by summarizing our understanding of a political economy of aging and AI that centers materialities as the critical-gerontological focus of analysis and by outlining calls for action toward strengthening the power of older adults in the emerging AI-aging-enterprise.

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AgingArtificial IntelligenceGeriatricsPoliticsAgedHumansCritical gerontologyEthicsInterventionismMaterial gerontologyTechnology

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PMID41269106
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