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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1

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The Dangers of Bias in AI

Mark Sendak and Emily Starritt are building a machine learning algorithm for childhood sepsis. They were inspired by a study that found an algorithm used to predict health needs was biased against Black patients. Mark says it takes a lot of time and money to uncover bias like this. But there's a consensus among experts who study AI that the potential for bias to get baked into AI is real.

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