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 ...

Every day, physicians use clinical algorithms to make decisions about the patients in their exam rooms. To help weigh a patient’s surgical risk or likelihood of disease, they factor in attributes such ...

Many health systems depend on prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with various health conditions. Some of these algorithms exhibit significant racial bias, resulting in millions of ...

People's decisions are known to be influenced by past experiences, including the outcomes of earlier choices. For over a century, psychologists have been trying to shed light on the processes ...

Credit: Getty Images Jim Anderson, MPAS, PA-C, explores the movement to dismantle racism in medicine by eliminating race from clinical algorithms. The team’s goal is to identify harmful race-based ...

Professor Nagla Rizk unpacks the principles of feminist AI and the importance of inclusion in technology and data application. Can data be sexist? Does artificial intelligence have the ability to ...