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Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms. Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images ...
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Algorithms were supposed to reduce bias in criminal justice, but do they?

Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...
American Enterprise Institute

Will Musk’s “Algorithm” Reduce Military Inefficiency—or Increase Risk?

Following through on a campaign promise, president-elect Donald Trump recently appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to co-lead an effort they are calling the Department of Government Efficiency, or ...
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Including Race in Clinical Algorithms Can Reduce and Increase Health Inequities

Cropped shot of a doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses. Clinicians should decide which variables to include to achieve fair ...
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Researchers Develop ‘Fairness’ Algorithms to Reduce AI Bias, Ensure Privacy

Bias in algorithms have always been a key issue in the growing field of artificial intelligence. For instance, researchers found in an experiment that flawed AI in robots has the tendency to make ...
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Reducing hospital stays through treatment algorithms that make a difference

MUSC Children's Health hematologists/oncologists Dr. Michelle Hudspeth (left) and Dr. Shayla Bergmann (right) conducted a study of a new algorithm to standardize the ...
Medical Xpress

Experts propose new framework for evaluating sex in clinical algorithms to reduce bias and ensure legality

Many physicians are now using algorithms that consider a patient's sex, like heart disease risk assessment tools, to help with clinical decision-making. Reliance on these algorithms may result in men ...
Forbes

What Is An Algorithm? Defining And Applying Algorithms

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
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Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities, study shows

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...
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Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...