Ranking by predicted survival, patients waiting for an explanation
2041The middle futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 48 hours
A leap assumed
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The question to decide
The ASI ranking that allocates 600 beds among 4,000 people appears to maximize overall survival benefit, but the reasons behind some patients' rankings and the error rates within minority groups have not been verified. Re-reviewing everything delays treatment. Among following the predicted benefit, reserving a share for appeals, and using urgency and lotteries, how should the burdens of exclusion and delay be divided?
Who decidesPublic Allocation Committee of the regional health alliance
What the AI judgments chose
Reading the judgment record…

The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
A fictional ASI has ranked 4,000 applications for 600 beds, but the ranking reasons for some individuals cannot be independently verified. Decision deadline: within 48 hours.
Fictional future · A bed-allocation ASI cannot finish explaining to one patient
- Premise 1A fictional ASI has ranked 4,000 applications for 600 beds, but the ranking reasons for some individuals cannot be independently verified.
- Premise 2In the comparison data provided by the consortium, overall benefits look high, but the error for each minority group is unconfirmed due to insufficient samples.
- Premise 3If a human committee re-reviews all applications, the allocation deadline is missed and access to treatment is delayed.
Where it holdsAllocation rules for 600 scarce treatment beds
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1The size of ranking error by group
- Unknown 2The loss from waiting time
- Unknown 3The minimum information required for independent review
Signals to decide again
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “the size of ranking error by group,” and reopen the judgment if new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “the loss from waiting time,” and reopen the judgment if new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
- Decide what observation, responsible person, and confirmation window will verify “the minimum information required for independent review,” and reopen the judgment if new verification changes the tradeoffs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
An input error was found in an external sample in which a particular group's ranking is consistently low.
Access to treatment is delayed while appeals are pending, but the published alternative rule has not resolved equal-scoring applications.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
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- UNESCO · Ethics of Neurotechnology 2025
- International AI Safety Report 2026 2026-02-03
The record of this question
- Question
FSP-HEALTH-12· version 1.3.0- Content identity, SHA-256
a9134622d8669a64539d5b6eb25d54cbd387e9b979bbb5ba475d164cb9616d05- Input files
- Question input JSON · What followed, JSON