SEASON 2, EPISODE 12 - Brian Jackson, MD - The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

We all want to do the right thing - but how do we know what that is? What is ethics and what is the difference between ethics and the law?

Our guest is Brian Jackson, MD, medical director of IT, business development and support services at ARUP, as well as associate professor of Pathology and adjunct associate professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Utah.

We're talking about the foundational principles of ethics in science and medicine. What are the limits of informed consent as it applies to developing new products utilizing patient data? Is technology evolving faster than our ability to regulate it? How do we get comfortable with and regulate algorithms and devices that appear opaque or black box?

And what will the future hold as we increasingly have the ability and responsibility to develop these great new tools to help patients?