In November, the Indiana University Center for Bioethics and the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology invited Dr. Leonard Fleck of Michigan State University for the Robert L Wolen Lecturer in Bioethics, which is awarded to an outstanding individual in the field of Bioethics and the conduct of principled science. Dr. Fleck presented, “Rough Justice, Wicked Problems: Using AI to Decide Who Gets Extremely Expensive Treatments,” in which he explored the “wicked problem” of using AI to allocate scarce healthcare resources, namely how emerging predictive and prognostic capacities of AI in the context of precision medicine will potentially undermine our capacity to do just priority-setting in health care and cost control.
If you missed the talk in November, it is available to watch on the IUCB website.