How Can We Keep Algorithmic Racism Out of Canadian Health Care’s AI Toolkit?

February 9, 2021

(The Globe and Mail) – In health care, the promise of artificial intelligence is alluring: With the help of big data sets and algorithms, AI can aid difficult decisions, like triaging patients and determining diagnoses. And since AI leans on statistics rather than human interpretation, the idea is that it’s neutral – it treats everyone in a given data set equally. But what if it doesn’t?