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How an archaeological approach can help leverage biased data in AI to improve medicine
In a new paper, computer science and bioethics professors from MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Alan Turing Institute call for an alternative approach to understanding biased data used in medical machine learning—one that views biased clinical data as akin to archaeological artifacts that connect back to societal values, practices, and patterns of inequity. Credit:
Out of This World Archaeological Experiment Lands in Space
A world-first – or solar system-first – archaeological project has this week begun on the International Space Station. Led by archaeologists Associate Professor Alice Gorman from Flinders University and Associate Professor Justin Walsh of Chapman University in California, the International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP) is the first archaeological study of a space habitat. “We’re…
How DNA is preserved in archaeological sediments for thousands of years
Sampling of an undisturbed block of impregnated sediment for ancient DNA analyses. Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years it has been shown that sediments can contain ancient biomolecules, including DNA. "The retrieval of…