A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is that it can reduce the influence of human error and bias in health care. But there’s growing concern that A.I. in medicine –as in other fields– can reflect the biases and lack of diversity among its creators. And that can have life threatening consequences for African American patients. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Margo Snipe, a health reporter for CapitalB News. They discuss how A.I. can sometimes fuel medical racism, and reasons to hope that it can change. Guest: Margo Snipe, health journalist for CapitalB News Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for $15 for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Word, a podcast from Slate.
0:03.4	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:05.2	Artificial intelligence plays a growing and largely invisible role in many of our lives.
0:11.0	But AI often reflects the biases of its creators.
0:14.9	And when AI is used in healthcare, the consequences can mean life and death.
0:19.0	The idea that accountability gets murky and is it with the data and who collects the data?
0:25.5	Is it with who receives the data and makes it into some technology?
0:28.7	Is it with the people who decide to use that technology?
0:31.5	It is a really complicated question.
0:33.9	AI and medical racism coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.
0:38.2	Stay with us.
0:40.9	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:45.2	Some people call us American royalty.
0:47.6	We were liars.
0:48.5	A new series on Prime Video.
0:50.6	We were happy.
0:51.6	We wanted for nothing.
0:53.2	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:56.0	Something terrible happened last summer and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
1:01.0	No one in my family will tell me. When you're left for dead, you want answers.
1:06.0	We will liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hi, this is Ava from Vanta.
1:13.6	In today's digital world, compliance regulations are changing constantly,
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