Ellie Morgenroth

@elliemorgenroth.bsky.social

Neuroscientist 👩‍🔬 Interested in fMRI to understand cognition and emotion in healthy and brain diseases. Currently researching neurodegenerative diseases. I love to show films in brain scanners.

A study in Nature Medicine exposed LLMs to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recommendations for patient treatment, referral and follow-up based only on these features. 🔒

Sociodemographic biases in medical decision making by large language models - Nature Medicine

A panel of nine LLMs was exposed to simulated clinical cases with switched sociodemographic features exploring ethnic, social, sexual orientation and gender dimensions and showed differences in recommendations for patient treatment, referral and follow-up based only on these features.

go.nature.com

There's a movement in neuroscience suggesting we should be pursuing bigger bets with larger teams. I think there's a case for doing a bit of this, but I think it's a bad idea to prioritise it for two reasons, and a good case for saying we should be moving in the exact opposite direction. 🧠🧪