I don’t understand the focus on AI in this context.

- Is it OK to deny care at all?
- If not, how do you ration care, given that we do not have infinite resources?

- If so:

- Is it OK if the decision is made by a highly educated and experienced human, with full access to all patient and resource data?

- Is it OK if the decision is made by a slightly-less omniscient being?

- Is it OK if the decision-maker uses written guidelines, processes, and checklists directly?

- Is it OK if the decision-maker uses a paper tool to score different factors, and reach a decision from the score?

- Is it OK if the decision-maker uses a spreadsheet to calculate the score?

- It is OK if the decision-maker uses an app to calculate the score?

- Is it OK if the app is relatively sophisticated, and embodies lots of information about potential outcomes and costs, and incorporates that using sophisticated parametric and nonparametric statistics in its scoring?

- Is it OK if the app has an AI component, as certain sorts of AI are very good at extracting signal from large datasets?