AI & Health: Who Controls The Cure?—PART 6
January 17, 2026
2:43 am
Global Inequality and Algorithmic Colonialism
How Artificial Intelligence Reinscribes Old Power in Modern Medicine.
By Prof. MarkAnthony Nze
When Innovation Moves South, Authority Rarely Follows
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is routinely framed as a moral breakthrough—a technological intervention capable of compressing inequality, democratizing expertise, and compensating for structural scarcity in low-resource settings. In this narrative, AI appears as a neutral instrument: portable, scalable, and emancipatory. Yet history urges caution. Technologies do not dismantle power asymmetries by default. Far more often, they reorganize them.
In global health, AI has not arrived as a rupture with the past, but as a continuation …
