AI decides kidney transplant patients

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Organ donation and who receives it can be an ethical process. The US organ transplant network has been criticized for outdated technology that led to some fatal errors. But according to David G. Robinson, author of a new book, “Voices in the Code: Stories of People, Their Values, and the Algorithms They Created,” part of the system could be a success story. Kidney recipients have been selected algorithmically since 1987. It could be a ethical “model” for other algorithms and potential AI, Robinson said. Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams recently spoke with Robinson about how the algorithm works and how the long process of input from non-experts and people directly affected by kidney transplant decisions has made it what it is today.

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