“Explainability” Is a Poor Band-Aid for Biased AI in Medicine

<p>This scenario is closer than you think. In fact, scenarios like this are already happening in health systems around the country, sometimes in pilot programs, sometimes with more full-fledged integration. But the point remains, at some point clinician&rsquo;s diagnoses are going to be &ldquo;aided&rdquo; by AI.</p> <p>What&rsquo;s the problem with AI predictions? Well, people often complain it&rsquo;s a &ldquo;black box&rdquo; &mdash; sure it may tell me it thinks the diagnosis is heart failure, but I don&rsquo;t know WHY it thinks that. To make AI work well with clinicians, it needs to explain itself.</p> <p><a href="https://fperrywilson.medium.com/explainability-is-a-poor-band-aid-for-biased-ai-in-medicine-3db62a338857"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>