General Education Requirements
Not currently certified for a requirement. Courses are typically considered for Ways certification a quarter in advance.
Course Description
Artificial Intelligence (AI), the science and engineering of achieving tasks historically associated with human intelligence, is everywhere. As it rapidly evolves, staying ahead of ethical challenges is a new frontier. Society will need philosophers, ethicists, and creatives to have or partner with computer science and engineering skillsets to face the new realities that emerge as machines can learn from data to guide and make decisions. Nowhere is this more true than in the delivery of healthcare.
In healthcare, AI is already filling roles like helping clinicians better identify frail patients at risk of poor health outcomes. But how can AI be a better part of the team? And whose responsibility is it when AI gets it wrong?
In this course we will take examples across the human life span and explore how AI can be used to enhance human quality of life and experience. We will also explore where disparities in access to AI hinder outcomes and where bias in AI algorithms can lead to inappropriate differential treatment of patients. We will use qualitative interview methods as prework to learn approaches for getting ahead of bias in the development of AI. We will also explore principals of co-design, and consider how to bring the perspectives of patients and caregivers into the development of future AI approaches.
Meet the Instructor: Karleen Giannitrapini
"I am an American health scientist with expertise in organizational behavior, building interdisciplinary teams, implementation science, mixed methods-research, quality improvement, and global health. I lead a portfolio of projects regarding the processes that interdisciplinary teams can leverage to improve pain and symptom management among patients who are frail or suffer from chronic conditions. My current research aims to bridge the gap of poor palliative care integration in the perioperative period.
“My research leverages perspectives and approaches from multiple disciplinary backgrounds. I have a Bachelor’s of Arts in Anthropology and Religion, a Masters of Arts in African Studies, a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Community Health Sciences, and a PhD in Health Policy and Management with a concentration in Organizational Behavior.”
