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How Smart Is AI? (Part Two) with Meredith Broussard

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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Is Medical Racism Infected by AI?

There is a really common misconception out there that black people have greater muscle mass. It comes from a fetishization of black male strength in the slavery era. This racist notion gets embedded in something like a measurement of kidney function. So when you develop an algorithm that evaluates somebody's eligibility for the kidney transplant list, you have this racist notion embedded in the actual technology that is calculating whether somebody gets a life saving organ. I mean, that is medical racism.

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