Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines to schedule an appointment with a specialist might discourage patients with needs that could be met by less qualified personnel from taking up the specialist’s time, thus freeing up time for those with complex needs. Similarly, putting brand-name medications at the bottom of a long list of options on clinicians’ computers might encourage them to prescribe a generic brand listed closer to...
Title: "Skewed or Rescued?: The Emerging Theory of Algorithmic Fairness"
Description: Intelligent systems, much like humans, have the ability to see and respond to the world around them. Using data in new ways to make more accurate predictions or enabling new services, these...
Harvard’s EDMOND J. SAFRA CENTER FOR ETHICS is hosting an academic workshop October 25-26, bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines—social sciences, philosophy, and natural science—to probe the conceptual underpinnings of research and conclusions in the domain of the study of polygenic adaptations. This workshop has developed from a series of discussions beginning in early Fall of 2017. The title of the workshop is: “A workshop on interpreting the genetic bases of differences between...
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and 
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and