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AI can guess racial categories from heart scans – they’re detecting bias not biological differences

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par Tiarna Lee, Doctoral Candidate, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London

Imagine an AI model that can use a heart scan to guess what racial category you’re likely to be put in – even when it hasn’t been told what race is, or what to look for. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s real.

My recent study, which I conducted with colleagues, found that an AI model could guess whether a patient identified as Black or white from heart images with up to 96% accuracy – despite no explicit information about racial categories being given.

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