AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
by Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#6Z81C)
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England's councils are downplaying women's physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research has found.
The study found that when using Google's AI tool Gemma" to generate and summarise the same case notes, language such as disabled", unable" and complex" appeared significantly more often in descriptions of men than women.
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