The computer may be assessing you now, but who decided its values?
Paul Hodgkin · BMJ · 2016
Machine learning holds great promise for medicine,1 but to assess its reliability we need to know what goals the machines have been directed to fulfil and whose values they represent. As Tim O’Reilly (originator of the term “web 2.0”) said in a recent blog, “Understanding how to evaluate algorithms without knowing the exact rules they follow is a …