Aviv Shachak 🇨🇦🇮🇱

@avivshachak.bsky.social

Professor, University of Toronto. #HealthInformatics and Health Professions Education #HPE. “Dictators always look good until the last minutes” (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)

I was born and raised in Northern Ontario and I am absolutely boiling with rage at the ways in which people elsewhere are talking about the forest fires there as though this is a common occurrence. The air thick with smoke for kilometers, entire communities wiped out - this shit is not normal.

Unpopular opinion: it was a mistake to get Kawhi in 2019 and it’s a mistake to bring him back to the Raptors now. Yes, we got the championship in 2019 but it hurt the team long term. I’m afraid the same would happen now; especially giving up first round picks.

Hi! I'm a final-stage PhD candidate in Public Health (my doctoral dissertation is under supervisor review), with 6 years of research experience in the field. Looking for research fellow, research associate, or post-doctoral research jobs in the UK/Ireland/France/Northern Europe/Japan.

It’s unsettling to see LLMs scaling bias, not solving it. A study of 3.4M outputs found models recommend more aggressive opioids to Black and LGBTQIA+ patients while simultaneously flagging them as high risk. Clinical guardrails are needed to ensure these tools don't worsen disparities.

LLMs show bias in opioid prescribing

Testing large language models on acute-pain vignettes reveals biases in opioid recommendations that particularly affect marginalized groups.

nature.com