"As health insurance companies continue to use AI to help save money—and employ heinous tactics like denying care because an algorithm has calculated the person will die before the insurer is forced to pay out—we’re watching the complete dehumanization of people through the eyes of the health care system in real time.

The tragedy of Thompson’s death is a stark reminder of how broken our system has become—not just for the millions of Americans who are denied care each year, but also for the executives who run these companies and are so far removed from the people they are supposed to be helping. Artificial intelligence will be revolutionary in health care, no question; it will help diagnose diseases earlier, develop lifesaving treatments, and make medical care more accessible to people around the globe. But as with all technologies, AI is being weaponized as yet another tool to maximize profits at the expense of human lives. What else should we expect from an industry that doesn’t think of people as people, but rather as numbers on a spreadsheet?"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/ai-driven-health-care-turning-us-into-numbers

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