AI gone astray: How subtle shifts in patient data send popular algorithms reeling, undermining patient safety - STAT

STAT and MIT launched an experiment that — unlike most studies of AI in health care — tried not to prove the strength of health care algorithms, but root out their weaknesses.

A novel investigation by STAT and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that subtle shifts in data fed into popular health care algorithms — used to warn caregivers of impending medical cri… [+597 chars]

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