AI Medical Tools Found To Downplay Symptoms of Women, Ethnic Minorities
AI Medical Tools Found To Downplay Symptoms of Women, Ethnic Minorities
arstechnica.com
AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities
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real doctors do the same, they generally ignore heart attack symptoms, or pain symptoms and pass it off as your "pmsing". Its worse if your an african american women, due to racist stereotypes they ignore them altogether, compared to white women.
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Which is why the algorithms do it. They're trained on bad data produced by a medical system with longstanding biases.
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Well yeah if you train them on the decisions of doctors.
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Now now, we can't start holding AI to higher standards than real doctors.
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I imagine insurance execs will be keen to figure out how they can get it to apply this behaviour to everyone.
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Oh come on now, the authors of this report are just being hysterical! /s
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Quelle surprise
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[...] Downplay Symptoms of Women, Ethnic Minorities
I'm confused: are "women" and "ethnic minorities" diseases? I can't find them in the ICD...
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Just like real doctors!
AI regurgitates what it's been fed. So yes, it's as biased as the stuff it ingested.
Except with the veneer of being a perfectly objective, unfeeling machine
It's crazy how many times this needs to be explained to journalists
Garbage in, garbage out.