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Rachel Thomas

Rachel Thomas is Founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco and cofounder of fast.ai. Find her on Twitter @math_rachel.

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Science & Nature

Medicine's Machine Learning Problem

As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.

Rachel Thomas

       

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