IMPORTANCE: Although race is a social construct, it is associated with variations in skin and retinal pigmentation. Image-based medical artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that use images of these organs have the potential to learn features assoc...
The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Jan 1, 2022
When applied in the health sector, AI-based applications raise not only ethical but legal and safety concerns, where algorithms trained on data from majority populations can generate less accurate or reliable results for minorities and other disadvan...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Mar 18, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Machine learning is used to understand and track influenza-related content on social media. Because these systems are used at scale, they have the potential to adversely impact the people they are built to help. In this study, we explore t...
Artificial intelligence surveillance can be used to diagnose individual cases, track the spread of Covid-19, and help provide care. The use of AI for surveillance purposes (such as detecting new Covid-19 cases and gathering data from healthy and ill ...
In this commentary, we put forth the following argument: Anyone conducting machine learning in a health-related domain should educate themselves about structural racism. We argue that structural racism is a critical body of knowledge needed for gener...
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