Non-technical suggestion: if AI represents an aspect of the collective unconscious, as it were, then a racist society would produce latently racist training data that manifests in racist output, without anyone at any step being overtly racist. Same as an image model having a preference for red apples (even though there are many colors of apple, and even red ones are not uniformly cherry red).
The training data has a preponderance of examples where doctors missed a clear diagnosis because of their unconscious bias? Then this outcome would be unsurprising.
An interesting test would be to see if a similar issue pops up for obese patients. A common complaint, IIUC, is that doctors will chalk up a complaint to their obesity rather than investigating further for a more specific (perhaps pathological) cause.
The training data has a preponderance of examples where doctors missed a clear diagnosis because of their unconscious bias? Then this outcome would be unsurprising.
An interesting test would be to see if a similar issue pops up for obese patients. A common complaint, IIUC, is that doctors will chalk up a complaint to their obesity rather than investigating further for a more specific (perhaps pathological) cause.