Can AI Fairly Decide Who Gets an Organ Transplant?

To tackle the challenge of how to distribute organs, vaccines, and other kinds of health care, organizations are relying on AI and analytics. But many of them treat ethical considerations as an afterthought. Such factors should be taken into the account at the outset of the effort to create the AI algorithm or analytics model. Health care organizations, like many other enterprises, face steep challenges in their attempt to maximize operational efficiency in the face of resource constraints. Whether it is a hospital's attempt to optimize staffing or a government trying to fairly allocate and distribute limited doses of Covid-19 vaccines, these tasks can be formidable.