Public Policy Academic Professional and Ph.D. Student Publish Article in AMA Journal of Ethics

Posted February 4, 2019

Jason Borenstein, an academic professional in the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy, and Daniel Schiff, a Ph.D. student in the School, wrote an article about the potential harms from artificial intelligence (AI) surgical devices that was recently published in the AMA Journal of Ethics.

In the article, entitled “How Should Clinicians Communicate With Patients About the Roles of Artificially Intelligent Team Members?”, the authors discuss informed consent and how responsibility should be distributed among professionals, technology companies, and other stakeholders for uses of AI in health care.

The full article is available here.

Borenstein is the director of Georgia Tech’s Graduate Research Ethics Programs and associate director of the Institute’s Center for Ethics and Technology. His research interests include bioethics, engineering ethics, robot ethics, and research ethics. 

Schiff studied the philosophy of artificial intelligence at Princeton University before completing his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania on education policy and research. His current research focuses on the implications of artificial intelligence for social policy, including education, labor, welfare, and inequality. 

The School of Public Policy is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.