acefairness and bias of AI systems used in healthcare decision-making and related domains
Source article: Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence: A Brief Survey of Sources, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies
Abstract: The significant advancements in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains have simultaneously raised concerns about the fairness and bias of AI systems. This is particularly critical in areas like healthcare, employment, criminal justice, credit scoring, and increasingly, in generative AI models (GenAI) that produce synthetic media. Such systems can lead to unfair outcomes and perpetuate existing inequalities, including generative biases that affect…
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A peer-reviewed survey published December 26, 2023 reviewed literature on fairness and bias in AI, focusing on sources such as data, algorithm, and human decision biases and the emerging issue of generative AI bias in synthetic media across healthcare, employment, criminal justice, and credit scoring.
It matters because biased systems can produce unfair outcomes that perpetuate inequalities and shape public perception through synthetic content, while proposed mitigations like pre-processing, model selection, and post-processing raise ethical and implementation questions that remain unresolved, especially for generative models.
- Survey reviews sources of bias including data, algorithm, and human decision biases, with emergent generative AI bias where models reproduce and amplify societal stereotypes.
- Assesses societal impact across healthcare, employment, criminal justice, credit scoring, and generative AI synthetic media.
- Discusses mitigation via data pre-processing, model selection, post-processing, and alternative AI paradigms prioritizing fairness.
Using mitigation approaches such as diverse and representative datasets and enhanced transparency and accountability can improve fairness of AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making and medical diagnosis.
AI systems applied to healthcare decision-making, medical diagnosis, and other domains can lead to unfair outcomes that perpetuate existing inequalities and reinforce harmful stereotypes, including generative biases in synthetic media.
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The source is a systematic literature review published 2023-12-26 that defines types of AI bias and traces them to data, algorithm, and human decision sources, noting generative AI bias as models reproduce and amplify societal stereotypes in synthetic data.
It frames impacts as perpetuating inequalities and reinforcing harmful stereotypes as generative AI becomes more prevalent in content influencing public perception, and calls for holistic approaches involving representative datasets, transparency, accountability, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Generative AI presents unique challenges requiring tailored mitigation strategies rather than general approaches alone.
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- Peer-reviewedSci2023-12-26
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