Opinion: How I addressed racial bias in my company’s AI algorithm

STAT November 13, 2024
Amber Nigam

I’m on a personal quest to make AI more trustworthy

Several years ago, teams of scholars published groundbreaking research that pointed to racial biases in algorithms that helped direct patient care at major health systems in the U.S. Those algorithms, the studies found, adversely affected the care of Black and Latinx patients across multiple medical categories. For instance, the researchers uncovered racial biases in the prediction algorithms used...

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