Document Type
Review
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving increasingly rapidly into health care (as indeed into everything else). But it has problems there (as indeed everywhere else!). What’s to be done, in particular, about the deeply embedded biases along racial and other lines that permeate the whole world of health and, as such, are likely to be encoded in AI?
Khiara Bridges gives an answer that seems mild but carries roots of revolution. In Race in the Machine: Racial Disparities in Health and Medical AI, she argues that informed consent is a key lever to pull in fighting these racial disparities. But not because informed consent—at present, mostly a formality, a begrudging nod to autonomy—will fix the problem in its current state. Instead, Bridges argues, informed consent, beefed up and focused on conveying the brutal truth about encoded racial disparities, can form the foundation for revolutionary social changes in health care, health, and beyond. Curious? Read on!
Recommended Citation
Price, W. Nicholson, II. "Can Informed Consent Solve AI Bias?" Review of Race in the Machine: Racial Disparities in Health and Medical AI, JOTWELL (2024).
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Comments
This review was originally published as Price, W. Nicholson, II. "Can Informed Consent Solve AI Bias?" Review of Race in the Machine: Racial Disparities in Health and Medical AI, JOTWELL (2024).
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