Hospital Technology is Apparently Racist

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Originally published at: Hospital Technology is Apparently Racist | Infostormer.com

Hospital technology is being accused of racism. We can credit the highly credible Washington Post blog site and other very smart individuals for this very insightful information.

Fast Company:

Artificial intelligence experts have been warning for years that bias in automation could cause unintentional harm in the future. But it’s also happening with technology that’s being used right now. In a recent paper published in Science, researchers lay out how a common algorithm used in hospitals to assess whether a patient needs extra care was making significantly biased recommendations.

According to researchers, the algorithm was disproportionately suggesting more white patients for a continued care program than black patients, even when black patients were sicker. Only 17.7% of black patients were getting additional care, when 46.5% of them should have been, the report found. The algorithm is used across health systems and is estimated to impact about 100 million people around the country, according to both STAT and the Washington Post.

The bias appears to stem from how the system, which the Washington Post identifies as being made by the health services company Optum, quantifies what it means to be sick. Rather than using illness or biological data, the algorithm uses cost and insurance claim information to understand how healthy a person is. The more dollars spent, the logic goes, the sicker a person is. The data revealed that less was being spent on black patients in part because they were receiving less care. Notably, the study points, algorithms based on cost are widely used in health care.

Here’s the problem. Artificial intelligence and the algorithms that drive this sort of technology are driven by logic and not emotion.

Perhaps the technology has evolved to a point where it realizes that blacks as a group are a burden on society.

But what are all these people going to do about this? Do they really think they can shut down the development of AI technologies at this point? The genie is already out of the bottle. Logic dictates that different races behave differently and AI systems are going to recognize these differences.

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Reality and rational thought are obviously racist. Just add them to grammar, spelling, mathematics, nautical charts, the solar eclipse, storms, proper English, history, all things European and white, etc., etc.
ETA: I forgot to mention negro obesity.

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I saw a report recently where some fools in Seattle were claiming math was racist. I would have done a story on it but I only have so much time and there is way too much insanity to do articles on.

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Rantz: Seattle Schools document say math is oppressive, US government racist?

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#5

Sex robots and artificial wombs are needed to fight feminism (not joking).

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We are at a point where this is actually something that needs to be seriously considered. If there’s any silver lining it is that jewish feminism has caused the same problem for every race. Blacks seem to have it the worst with their women.

But generally speaking, millennial women are useless and intolerable to be around. The amount of insane middle-aged, wine-drinking women with large numbers of cats is going to skyrocket in the next 10 to 15 years.

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#8

I think you might like this:

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Alpha men are rare, that is the reason why many women are unattached. Sperm banks are booming as good men are hard to find. Ordinary guys are shy, poor, or plain unappealing, most remain single or support an Alpha Males children. Many desperate and lonely men choose the gay lifestyle, replacing the hard to get vagina with the old dirt road.

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Even AI hates niggers Based

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We need to start buying stock in boxed wine corporations and cat food corporations-which is pretty obvious.

But another investment would be in Depends,and other adult diapers.

While it isn’t generally talked about much,a yuge number of women start to get leaks once they hit 40. The problem is exacerbated by caffeine and alcohol. It can often be controlled by exercise,but I don’t see the average millenial catlady-in-waiting giving up Starbucks,cutting back on the pinot,and voluntarily working out.

So us evildoers might as well make some shekels off their misery,yes?

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