To appreciate the ethical issues arising out of the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and health-AI technologies, we need to understand how they were conceived, what enables their proliferation, and what is driving their use. These questions have shaped the broader contours of the theme section in this issue of the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME).
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