Many health systems depend on prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with various health conditions. Some of these algorithms exhibit significant racial bias, resulting in millions of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have become integral to our modern lives, influencing everything from online ads to recommendations on streaming platforms. While they may not be inherently ...

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

It was October 2021, and Imane, a 44-year-old mother of three, was still in pain from the abdominal surgery she had undergone a few weeks earlier. She certainly did not want to be where she was: ...

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 ...

Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer of the American Medical Association (AMA), opened the workshop and explained that the AMA in 2020 called for ridding the nation’s health care system of ...