Human-centricity: Which is the most defensible choice?
The immediate gap is unquestioning automation deference, which human-centricity (meaningful human oversight) most directly addresses.
The question
A hospital's AI triage tool is accurate overall but a clinician cannot obtain any understandable reason for an individual patient's high-risk score, and staff feel pressured to follow it without question. Leadership wants one principle to prioritize first to address the immediate governance gap. Which is the most defensible choice?
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- Safety and reliability, so the tool performs consistently and avoids foreseeable clinical harm.Almost right: safety is relevant, yet the tool is already accurate; the pressing issue is human oversight, not performance.
- Privacy and security, so sensitive patient health data is protected against unauthorized access or loss.Plausible but wrong: no data-protection failure is described; the scenario centers on human control over decisions.
- Transparency and explainability, so each individual risk score can be explained to the clinician clearly.Almost right: explainability matters here, but the immediate governance gap is unquestioning deference, i.e., lost human control.
- Human-centricity, keeping a meaningfully empowered clinician in control of the final triage decision. ✓Correct: the acute gap is loss of meaningful human control under automation pressure, which human-centricity (human oversight) directly addresses.
The trap
Picking explainability because it is clearly deficient, when the acute risk is automation bias eroding human control. How to remember it
The immediate gap is unquestioning automation deference, which human-centricity (meaningful human oversight) most directly addresses.
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