I rejected my immediate dismissal of the article based on the title and thought it might be a unicorn and have value. Pondering it over, I was curious if it'd cover graphical pattern or visual nuance that could conceivably be harder to see in skin tones with higher melanin. That's not impossible and would be an interesting topic. However...

The results revealed that radiologists may have literal blind spots when it comes to reading Black patients’ x-rays.

Obermeyer’s new study showing how algorithms can uncover bias comes with a catch: Neither he nor the algorithms can explain what the algorithms see in x-rays that doctors miss. The researchers used artificial neural networks, a technology that has made many AI applications more practical, but is so tricky to reverse engineer that experts call them “black boxes.”

Standard SJW nonsense, regret skimming the article.

I rejected my immediate dismissal of the article based on the title and thought it might be a unicorn and have value. Pondering it over, I was curious if it'd cover graphical pattern or visual nuance that could conceivably be harder to see in skin tons with higher melanin. That's not inconceivable and would be an interesting topic. However...

The results revealed that radiologists may have literal blind spots when it comes to reading Black patients’ x-rays.

Obermeyer’s new study showing how algorithms can uncover bias comes with a catch: Neither he nor the algorithms can explain what the algorithms see in x-rays that doctors miss. The researchers used artificial neural networks, a technology that has made many AI applications more practical, but is so tricky to reverse engineer that experts call them “black boxes.”

Standard SJW nonsense, regret skimming the article.