Study Suggests AI Models Could Be Relying on ‘Demographic Shortcuts’ During Medical Diagnosis
New research has determined that artificial intelligence (AI) models may be depending on “demographic shortcuts” when making medical diagnoses. Prior studies had determined that these models could reliably predict a patient’s race from their chest X-rays, something even the best radiologists couldn’t do. This has been further put under the spotlight by this recent study, which determined that these artificial intelligence models have discrepancies in their ability to reliably diagnose images of individuals of different races or genders. For their study, the researchers used chest X-ray datasets to train the models to predict if patients either suffered from a collapsed…
