PM Starmer has pledged to increase the use of AI in public services, but a serious concern is whether his government fully understand how AI can perpetuate bias. Latest AI research shows when AI was used to scan chest x-rays for diseases it did not accurately detect it for Black people and women. - ThreadSky

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zubhaque.bsky.social • 14 days ago

PM Starmer has pledged to increase the use of AI in public services, but a serious concern is whether his government fully understand how AI can perpetuate bias. Latest AI research shows when AI was used to scan chest x-rays for diseases it did not accurately detect it for Black people and women.

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kengray1967.bsky.social•14 days ago

Also, I’m pretty sure you can’t run AI on PCs that are only capable of running Win XP

dav1rus.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is very interesting. Do you have the data/study? Do we know why that is?

taniaspencer.bsky.social•14 days ago

Reminiscent of an FDA approved device, widely used as a gatekeeper to urgent care throughout an ongoing pandemic, that was not calibrated to work on patients with darker skin. A decades old problem, no one cared to solve:

https://www.statnews.com/2022/08/19/diversity-in-science-black-engineers-work-to-fix-long-ignored-bias-in-pulse-oximeters/

millas15.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wow

zubhaque.bsky.social•14 days ago

While there is so much about AI that is revolutionary and changing how we do things, we are still learning how the use of AI affects different groups of people in everyday life. That's particularly important to consider if AI is being rolled out across public services https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-models-miss-disease-black-female-patients

wildswim.bsky.social•14 days ago

Not going to get any better if males are recorded as female either🙄

bigmommalurka.bsky.social•13 days ago

Here we go again. Scientific medical research has ALWAYS used the white male as the template for developing new medications and practices.

williamsaled.bsky.social•13 days ago

Why do those results not surprise me? It just illustrates why a 'one size fits all' approach to healthcare doesn't work. And those 'at the top' making decisions don't possess the intelligence to understand that...

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