Bias at warp speed: how AI may contribute to the disparities gap in the time of COVID-19.

Eliane Röösli; Brian Rice; Tina Hernandez-Boussard

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Bias at warp speed: how AI may contribute to the disparities gap in the time of COVID-19.

September 9, 2020

Röösli E, Rice B, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021;28(1):190-192.

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This article discusses the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on racial and ethnic minority groups and how the use of artificial intelligence (AI) may exacerbate these disparities due to underlying biases in AI tools.

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