"Democratizing" artificial intelligence in medicine and healthcare: Mapping the uses of an elusive term.

"Democratizing" artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and healthcare is a vague term that encompasses various meanings, issues, and visions. This article maps the ways this term is used in discourses on AI in medicine and healthcare and uses this map for a normative reflection on how to direct AI in medicine and healthcare towards desirable futures. We searched peer-reviewed articles from Scopus, Google Scholar, and PubMed along with grey literature using search terms "democrat*", "artificial intelligence" and "machine learning".