LLM Psychiatric Tools Propose Inferior Care for Black Patients

The psychiatric AI finding is precise enough to be actionable and damning enough to be ignored at cost. When race is known to the model, treatment quality drops for Black patients — not randomly, not occasionally, but consistently ^[1]. That pattern puts the problem outside the category of statistical noise and inside the category of institutional policy. A hospital system deploying these tools is not running a neutral diagnostic aid; it is operationalizing a triage preference.