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White House Wants Transparency in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

The White House is calling for more transparency and “explainability” in healthcare artificial intelligence.

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By Fred Donovan

- The White House is calling for more transparency and “explainability” in healthcare artificial intelligence.

Currently many algorithms are opaque to users, which creates problems for doctors, who need transparency to justify their diagnoses or treatment of patients.

This is one argument made by the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update released June 21 by the National Science and Technology Council in the Executive Office of the President.