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Bias and fairness research, explained
3 open-access bias and fairness studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Can expert hints make surgical-skill AI fairer?
An AI that grades surgeons from video judged some groups more harshly than others, and teaching it which video moments experts consider important reduced those gaps while also making it more accurate.
- Are dementia-prediction models less accurate for poorer patients?
Standard machine-learning models predicting dementia from medical records made more errors for people of lower socioeconomic status, and rebalancing the training data by status narrowed but did not simply remove that gap.
- Does removing race from a cancer risk model make it fairer?
Taking race and ethnicity out of a breast cancer risk model barely changed its overall accuracy but made its risk estimates wrong for Black and Asian women in opposite directions.