Dementia and other related diseases are becoming increasingly diagnosed and are placing a serious strain on the healthcare system. Robotic technology research is currently underway to provide the much needed support to patients, caregivers, and health providers. This includes examining the ethical implications of robots use in healthcare. This scoping review explores the current state of the literature regarding robotics and dementia with a special lens on ethics. More specifically, this paper strives to gain an understanding of the current ethical considerations, and propose an intervention for evaluating ethical considerations prior to implementation.

Though artificial intelligence is changing how businesses work, there are concerns about how it may influence our lives. This is not just an academic or a societal concern but a reputational risk for companies, no company wants to be marred with data or AI ethics scandals that impacted companies like Amazon. For example, there was significant backlash due to the sale of Rekognition to law enforcement. This was followed by Amazon's decision to stop providing this technology to law enforcement for a year since they anticipate the proper legal framework to be in place by then. Al algorithms and training data may contain biases as humans do since those are also generated by humans.

Microsoft was one of the earliest companies to begin discussing and advocating for an ethical perspective on artificial intelligence. The issue began to take off at the company in 2016, when CEO Satya Nadella spoke at a developer conference about how the company viewed some of the ethical issues around AI, and later that year published an article about these issues. Nadella's primary focus was on Microsoft's orientation toward using AI to augment human capabilities and building trust into intelligent products. The next year, Microsoft's R&D head Eric Horvitz partnered with Microsoft's president and chief legal officer Brad Smith to form Aether, a cross-functional committee addressing AI and ethics in engineering and research. With these foundations laid, in 2018, Microsoft established a full-time position in AI policy and ethics.