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Joshua Budhu, Neuro-Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“New in Neurology: Our American Academy of Neurology Diversity Leadership Program cohort explores how artificial intelligence can advance—or undermine—health equity in neurology.
AI offers enormous potential: earlier detection, language-accessible tools, and support for clinicians caring for underserved communities. But without intentional design, it also risks reinforcing long-standing inequities through biased datasets, under-representation, opaque models, and uneven implementation.
In our piece, we outline three actionable principles for the neurology community:
- Engage diverse patient and community voices early in AI development
- Build AI literacy across the neurology workforce
- Promote transparent governance and monitoring to evaluate impact and bias
Our key message: equity-by-design is essential. AI will not reduce disparities by default—it will reflect the values we build into it from the start.
Grateful to my AAN DLP colleagues for their partnership and to the American Academy of Neurology for supporting this work.”
Title: Health Equity Considerations in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Joshua Amit Budhu, Noriko Anderson, Chantale Branson, Marisela Elizabeth Dy-Hollins, Andres Jimenez-Gomez, Katherine Nearing, Faddi G. Saleh Velez, Julia Staisch, Angela Wabulya, Adys Mendizabal
You can read the full article in Neurology.
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