Thread by @hope411adcock

1)🚨AI Accountability Policy Request for Comment🚨

Comments Due 6/12/2023 -

Don't forget to get your comments in regarding #NARXcare #PDMP

federalregister.gov/documents/2023…

https://twitter.com/hope411adcock/status/1663317225728626688

2)The PDMP: Raising Issues in Data Design, Use and Implementation ~ Terry A Lewis

"How machine learning, algorithms, and poorly designed data collection combines to create vicarious harm to health care users"

An excellent article with multiple links

medium.com/@TerriALewis/t…

3)"How Artificial Intelligence Can Deepen Racial and Economic Inequities" ~ @ACLU

"These algorithms use data such as eviction and criminal histories, which reflect long standing racial disparities

aclu.org/news/privacy-t…

4)in housing and the criminal legal system that are discriminatory towards marginalized communities. People of color seeking loans to purchase homes or refinance have been overcharged by millions thanks to AI tools used by lenders.

And many employers now use AI-driven tools to

5)interview and screen job seekers, many of which pose enormous risks for discrimination against people with #disabilities and other protected groups.

Rather than help eliminate discriminatory practices, AI has worsened them — hampering the economic security of marginalized

6)groups that have long dealt with systemic discrimination."

7)AI's are notoriously full of errors

"Burglary and domestic assault in Minnesota. Selling meth and jumping bail in Kentucky. Driving without insurance in Arkansas. Disorderly conduct. Theft.

themarkup.org/locked-out/202…

8)Lying to a police officer. Unspecified “crimes.” Too many narcotics charges to count

That’s what the landlord for an apartment in St. Helens, Ore., saw when he ran a background check for Samantha Johnson, a prospective tenant, in 2018.

But none of the charges were hers."

9)How AI and New Technologies Reinforce Systemic Racism

Submission to the Study on Patterns, Policies and Processes Leading Racial Discrimination and on Advancing Racial Justice and Equality for the 54 th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

ohchr.org/sites/default/…

"We cannot address bias and unfairness in AI without addressing the unfairness of the whole data pipeline system,” said Thomas Strohmer, director of UC Davis’ Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research, or CeDAR.

ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news…

11)Dosing Discrimination: Regulating PDMP Risk Scores ~ @jenndoliva

"The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is authorized to regulate #PDMP predictive diagnostic software platforms as medical devices, and the agency recently issued

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

12)guidance that provides a framework for such oversight.

Thus far, however, the FDA has failed to regulate PDMP platforms. This Article contends that the FDA should exercise its regulatory authority over PDMP risk scoring software to ensure that such predictive

13)diagnostic tools are safe and effective for patients.