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Systems for diagnosis, prognosis and imaging have repeatedly been deployed or promoted on the strength of performance that proved fragile under independent testing. A model that performs well in the hospital where it was born has proven only one thing: that it works at home. Consider the most instructive failure in recent clinical AI. The […]
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In 2019, a research team led by the physician and economist Ziad Obermeyer reverse-engineered a commercial algorithm already running quietly across the United States health system. The tool, sold by Optum, helped decide which patients — out of a population of roughly 200 million a year — would be flagged for extra medical attention. To
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The OECD launched the Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Skills project to develop a programme that could assess the capabilities of AI and robotics and their impact on education and work. This report represents the first step in developing the methodological approach of the project.
Organisations increasingly use automated decision-making systems (ADMS) to inform decisions that affect humans and their environment. While the use of ADMS can improve the accuracy and efficiency of decision-making processes, it is also coupled with ethical challenges. Unfortunately, the governance mechanisms currently used to oversee human decision-making often fail when applied to ADMS.
