THE ETHICS EQUATION.

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  • Author(s): WHITTEN, ALLISON (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Discover. Jul/Aug2022, Vol. 43 Issue 4, p40-43. 4p. 2 Color Photographs, 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
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    • Subject Terms:
      ETHICAL decision making; SWARM intelligence; DRIVERLESS cars
    • Abstract:
      Now, with the rapid ascent of AI in medicine, an urgent question has emerged: Can AI systems make ethical medical decisions? And if we're training our medical [AI] systems with historical data from medicine - which of course we're going to do, because that's the data we have - the systems will pick up those biases and can exacerbate those biases or create new biases. Today, most AI systems are powered by machine learning, where data-hungry algorithms automatically learn patterns from the information they're trained on. [Extracted from the article]
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