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Department of Veterans Affairs uses AI to target assistance to patients “with the highest statistical risk for suicide,” documents show.
It gives preference to veterans who are divorced and male’ and widowed and male,’ but not to any group of female veterans.
Military sexual trauma and intimate partner violence are not taken into account.
VA says it considered military sexual trauma, along with hundreds of other variables, as it crafted its algorithm.
The number of women using VA services has quintupled since 2001 , growing from 159,810 then to over 800,000 today .
Women make up 30% of new VA patients, according to the agency.
The issue of algorithmic bias has gained traction in recent years .
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