• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Does that not depend on where you are doing the analysis? Because plenty of diseases are more and others less common in specific races. I also don’t know if diseases present different across races.

    But there is definitely a good warning that ai can be plenty biased if the dataset is biased… which historically it will be.

    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      That’s what the article is about. Because race itself is not real (it’s a social construct humans made up,) race is working as a proxy in these situations. The push is to find the actual, objective factors that this subjective category is a proxy for, and then make decisions based on those objective things rather than using a proxy.