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Artificial Intelligence Passes USMLE Steps 1, 2 and 3 #344

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The Importance of Bias in Healthcare

In the American healthcare system, they found out there was an artificial intelligence program that was supposed to be using what they call non representative data. What they ended up finding out was that disproportionately black people were not included in this new concierge program. In Amazon's hiring algorithm, right? Well it learned that the majority of applicants were male and then as a result, if you were a woman, right, you ended up getting a lower rank just for being a woman. So anyway, Amazon ended up dissolving this AI system in 2017. I mean, basically artificial intelligence only as good as the data that's inputted.

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