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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
By Arvind Narayanan, Angelina Wang, Sayash Kapoor, and Solon Barocas Predictive algorithms are used in many life-or-death situations. In the paper Against Predictive Optimization, we argued that the use of predictive logic for making decisions about people has recurring, inherent flaws, and should be rejected in many cases.
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