Machine Learning Biases Might Define Minority Health Outcomes

Whether or not you're aware, your Google searches, questions posed to Siri, and Facebook timeline all rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to perform effectively. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines. The goal of artificial intelligence is to build models that can perform specific tasks as intelligently as humans can, if not better. Much of the AI you encounter on a daily basis uses a technique known as machine learning, which uses predictive modeling to generate accurate predictions when given random quantities of data. Because predictive models are built to find relational patterns in data, they learn to favor efficiency over fairness.