Next-Generation AI Models Still Reproduce Racial and Gender Stereotypes in Medicine

Researchers at Flinders University have evaluated two advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1, and found that they continue to reproduce racial and gender stereotypes when generating descriptions of fictional patients with common medical conditions. This indicates that despite enhanced reasoning capabilities, advancements in AI do not inherently improve representational fairness in healthcare. The research was published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.