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for AI for people. Have you ever gone to the doctor's office and felt like they were judging you, maybe even before you got around to talking to them?

Unfortunately, that's probably a pretty common feeling, and it's not because doctors are trying to be jerks.

Like all humans, doctors have unconscious biases that can lead them to make unfair judgment

calls.

But those biases can pose a serious risk to their patient's health.

For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.

And I'm joined today by Dr. Christina Gonzalez.

She is a professor of medicine and population health and associate director

at the Institute for Excellence in Health Equity at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Christina, can I call you Christina? Yes. Thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for

having me. Let's start with a basic question. What is implicit bias? So implicit bias refers to the unconscious and unintentional

mental associations that we make about others, often along lines of personal identity factors like

race or religion or gender, but they're unconscious and unintentional. How much does that tend to

come up in a clinical setting and why does it

matter? It's more likely to come up when we're pressed for time, when we're fatigued,

probably when we're hungry, although that doesn't exist in the literature, to my knowledge

anyway, when we're not really knowing the person in front of us very well and when we may have

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