Can AI diagnose skin cancer, fix broken peer-review? Scholar honored
October 26, 2023
AI in Health Care: Hype vs. Hope Can AI outperform dermatologists in spotting melanoma? *
That was one of the questions posed last week in a Hastings Center webinar discussing how artificial intelligence is being implemented in medicine. Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky moderated a discussion with Roxana Daneshjou, a data scientist and dermatologist at Stanford, and Alex John London, a professor of ethics and computational technologies at Carnegie Mellon. Takeways: we need better data, mechanisms to assure quality, and government regulation to hold AI developers and companies accountable. Watch the webinar.
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Worthy of Publication--Should AI Decide? Using AI to improve broken peer-review
Peer-review—a bedrock of academic publishing--is plagued by a shortage of reviewers and a lack of high-quality feedback, leading to interest in AI as a tool. “We felt the need to work out some sort of nuanced line,” said Gregory Kaebnick, editor of the Hastings Center Report, in an interview with Inside Higher Ed. He was referring to recent recommendations on the responsible use of AI in scholarly publishing for which he was the lead author. The recommendations state that editors and reviewers should not rely solely on generative AI to review submitted papers. Read the Inside Higher Ed article.
Faith Fletcher Honored Receives faculty excellence award
Hastings Center senior advisor Faith Fletcher, an assistant professor in the Center for Medical Ethics & Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, received the Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Excellence Award, given to faculty members who demonstrate excellence in the development of high-quality educational materials. Read more.
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