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A data-driven approach to making better choices
Imagine a world in which some important decision โ a judgeโs sentencing recommendation, a childโs treatment protocol, which person or business should receive a loan โ was made more reliable because a well-designed algorithm helped a key decision-maker arrive at a better choice. A new MIT economics course is investigating these interesting possibilities. Class 14.163…
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How an archeological approach can help leverage biased data in AI to improve medicine
The classic computer science adage โgarbage in, garbage outโ lacks nuance when it comes to understanding biased medical data, argue computer science and bioethics professors from MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Alan Turing Institute in a new opinion piece published in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The rising…