The Hastings Center report
Jun 22, 2021
The European Union's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act is a welcome, ambitious law on the regulation of AI systems. However, it underestimates the responsibilities placed on individual users to navigate the implementation of AI. Focusing on the he...
The Hastings Center report
Apr 6, 2021
The use of opaque, uninterpretable artificial intelligence systems in health care can be medically beneficial, but it is often viewed as potentially morally problematic on account of this opacity-because the systems are black boxes. Alex John London ...
The Hastings Center report
Feb 19, 2021
Trust is one of the big buzzwords in debates about the shaping of society, democracy, and emerging technologies. For example, one prominent idea put forward by the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence appointed by the European Commissio...
The Hastings Center report
Dec 14, 2020
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for improved health-care outcomes. But it also poses substantial new hazards, including algorithmic discrimination. For example, an algorithm used to identify candidates for beneficial "high risk care manag...
The Hastings Center report
Sep 1, 2023
Patient data is used to drive an ecosystem of advanced digital tools in health care, like predictive models or artificial intelligence-based decision support. Patients themselves, however, receive little information about these technologies or how th...
The Hastings Center report
May 1, 2020
Artificial intelligence surveillance can be used to diagnose individual cases, track the spread of Covid-19, and help provide care. The use of AI for surveillance purposes (such as detecting new Covid-19 cases and gathering data from healthy and ill ...
The Hastings Center report
Sep 1, 2019
In a 2015 Hastings Center Report essay, Robert Truog and his coauthors argued that the clinical ethics portion of medical education should cast both a wider and a finer net than is sometimes realized. Many of the morally important moments in patient ...
The Hastings Center report
Sep 1, 2019
Historically, the practice of medicine has been a physically intimate endeavor. Physicians have used their hands to palpate and reveal the secrets hidden within the body. Smelling the breath for the ketosis of diabetes or tasting the skin for the sal...
The Hastings Center report
Jan 1, 2019
Although decision-making algorithms are not new to medicine, the availability of vast stores of medical data, gains in computing power, and breakthroughs in machine learning are accelerating the pace of their development, expanding the range of quest...
The Hastings Center report
Sep 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to revolutionize the delivery of health care. But designing machine learning-based decision support systems is not a merely technical challenge. It also requires attention to bioethical ...