Incident 173: AI Tools Failed to Sufficiently Predict COVID Patients, Some Potentially Harmful

Description: AI tools failed to sufficiently predict COVID patients, some potentially harmful.

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Alleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Doctors and COVID patients.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
173
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-07-30
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
technologyreview.com · 2021

When covid-19 struck Europe in March 2020, hospitals were plunged into a health crisis that was still badly understood. “Doctors really didn’t have a clue how to manage these patients,” says Laure Wynants, an epidemiologist at Maastricht Un…

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