Alternative SoMe algorithms can help users form more accurate and less polarized beliefs

The algorithms that most social media platforms like Facebook, X, and TikTok use today might be contributing to political ...
STAT

Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change?

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...
STAT

Philadelphia-area health systems end use of four race-based algorithms to guide care

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Katie covers the impact of health technology on patients, clinicians, and businesses. Her stories explore the price tag of clinical AI, digital health at ...
The Conversation

How to redesign social media algorithms to bridge divides

Social media platforms have been implicated in conflicts of all scales, from urban gun violence to the storming of the US Capitol building on January 6 and civil war in South Sudan. Scientifically, it ...
Fred Hutch

Hidden in plain sight: addition of race and ethnicity improves clinical algorithm performance

“Is omitting race and ethnicity as a predictor in colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction models associated with racial and ethnic bias?” is the main question Dr. Aasthaa Bansal, an associate ...