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Welcome to Hastings on the Hill

Inaugural Topic: Health AI

AI is changing the landscape of health care delivery and biomedical research. It carries great promise but also generates deep ethical and social concerns.

Bioethics, the study of ethical issues in health, science, and technology, has been dedicating attention to the appropriate governance of health-AI. But the work done on how to ethically and responsibly deploy AI in health is not always accessible to decision makers. There is an urgent need for resources to inform law and policy in this new, fast-evolving area, as the technology intersects with an emerging patchwork of state laws; with existing federal antitrust, consumer protection, and civil rights laws; and with executive orders.

Designed for legislators and policymakers, and for industry leaders interested in self-regulation, this hub delivers direct access to key insights and possible approaches to the challenges of making critical decisions in the area of health AI.

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TALK TO AN EXPERT

Bioethics provides policy-relevant information on health-AI and a wide range of other topics. Let us know if you would like to talk with an expert in one of these areas:

  • Health Policy
  • Medical Research
  • Genomics
  • Aging
  • End-of-Life Care and Decision-making
  • Environmental ethics
  • Assisted Reproductive Technologies
  • Disability Ethics

The Hastings Center has research scholars and a network of more than 200 fellows from around the world. To talk with an expert, email Susan Gilbert, director of communications of The Hastings Center, gilberts@thehastingscenter.org.

We value your feedback! Hastings on the Hill is new. Let us know how to make this hub more useful to you. Email Susan Gilbert, director of communications of The Hastings Center, gilberts@thehastingscenter.org.

WHO WE ARE

The Hastings Center

Founded in 1969, we are the only independent nonprofit bioethics center in the nation. We are eager to build on our track record of translating research for policymakers and practitioners.

We launched Hastings on the Hill in October 2024 to translate bioethics research on AI in health for use by policymakers. We offer two-way engagement to understand and convey different perspectives supporting responsible regulation. The Greenwall Foundation is supporting this initiative. 

Meet the Team

Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky directs Hastings on the Hill with co-investigators Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, a bioethicist at Simon Fraser University in Canada, and Erin D. Williams, a lawyer and bioethicist who is President and CEO of EDW Wisdom in the Washington area.­

Ravitsky and Bélisle-Pipon lead cutting-edge work on the bioethical aspects of health-AI.

Williams has spent her career as a “congressional bioethicist,” translating bioethics for legislators and policymakers at the Congressional Research Service and supporting government agencies.

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