School IB psychology class: AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

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• Health and wellbeing Use of technology in health and wellbeing. Link to the concept of bias

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AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities

• What are medical professionals and social workers using the AI tools for?

• What are the advantages of using AI tools for these purposes?

• What are some of the factors that are resulting in the downplay of symptoms in women and ethnic minorities?

• The article states that “A series of recent studies have found that the uptake of AI models across the healthcare sector could lead to biased medical decisions.” Follow the link in the article to one of these studies and summarise in a few sentences how using a large language AI model could bias decisions about medical treatment

• How does having several studies from reputable university departments, like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, increase the reliability of the claims made in the article? What type of reliability does it increase?

• What role does stereotyping play in the bias shown in AI tools?

• How do researchers suggest that the bias in medical AI tools could be reduced

• What responsibility do researchers have when training AI models on real patient data?

• Summarise your opinion about the present and future use of AI technology by health professionals. Choose at least one quote from the article to support what you say

Laura Swash, InThinking/thinkIB