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Doctors examine medical images

How Theresa May’s plan for an AI-powered NHS could go very wrong

21 May 2018

Trials of artificial intelligence show it can spot diseases that doctors miss – but rolling the tech out across the UK might prove more difficult
A judge sitting in a courtroom

Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs

17 January 2018

An algorithm used by US courts to predict reoffenders turns out to be no more accurate than random people on the internet. Why wasn’t it properly tested before now?

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