Tech News 1: Hidden biases in medical data could compromise AI approaches to healthcare

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While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial intelligence could be applied to clinical data in order to predict patient outcomes. "It wasn't until the end of my Ph.D. work that one of my committee members asked: "Did you ever check to see how well your model worked across different groups of people?'"

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