Diagnostic algorithms and practice guidelines that adjust or “correct” their outputs on the basis of a patient ... Table 1. Tool and ... however, were not incorporated into the algorithm.

Those charges were fed back into the algorithm. The report shines a light on the pitfalls of algorithm-driven policing and casts doubt on AI-powered tools meant to fight crime.

When the company replicated the analysis on a national data set of 3.7 million patients, they found that black patients who were ranked by the algorithm as equally as in need of extra care as ...