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COVID-19 Detection and Prognostication Models Allegedly Flagged for Methodological Flaws and Underlying Biases

AI Incident Database · article · Mar 15, 2021 · UTC

Peer-review of papers about COVID-19 detection and prognostication algorithms from 2020, including deployed models, revealed none to be ready for clinical use, due to methodological flaws and underlying biases such as lacking external validation or not specifying data sources and model training details.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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