Black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms (nature.com)

It's unsurprising that an algorithm would optimize for the same kinds of outcomes as those of actual health professionals. Garbage in. Garbage out.

> they were surprised to find that people who self-identified as black were generally assigned lower risk scores than equally sick white people

> The researchers found that the algorithm assigned risk scores to patients on the basis of total health-care costs accrued in one year.

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What the heck did they expect was going to happen? I'll give the modelers the benefit of the doubt and assume the authors here didn't mean to imply that total costs was the ONLY input to the model. This was easily foreseeable