AI, global health, and racism

All models are wrong. Some are useful.

Back in 1976, the British statistician George Box wrote,

All models are wrong, but some are useful

Back then, artificial intelligence wasn’t a thing. Large language models, like those behind ChatGPT or Google Bard, were the stuff of imagination. And we were decades away from being able to ask Midjourney to create a picture of Jeff Bezos as a K-pop star.