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Hopefully the law is written broadly enough to include algorithm-driven decisions that existed long before the current "AI" trend.

fragmede 2y ago
It's stated as "artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tool" which seems broad enough.
Aurornis 2y ago
Decision trees are inherent to every medical system around the world. Banning them would do nothing other than drive the cost of insurance way up because every single claim would require human review and involvement, likely checking the exact same decision tree that was being implemented automatically. Fortunately the bill doesn’t actually do that. The way so many people in these comments are cheering for an obviously terrible cost adder demonstrates how off the rails discourse on this topic has become. Forcing human involvement for every claim (by banning algorithms) would also make for massively higher error rates for simple things.
- janderson215 2y ago
  People clearly no longer care about reality when it comes to healthcare. They’re either stupid, horribly mislead, or terrible people. We’ll see an exodus of good people leaving the industry because they don’t care tolerate the sentiment and the US healthcare system will be run by actual terrible and/or stupid people and the problem will get far worse than it is today. There is no correcting mechanism to this sentiment when public figures including politicians and executives in other industries do not set the record straight and correct obvious misunderstandings. I’ve heard 1 person go the distance of attempting to set the record straight since Brian Thompson was assassinated and that is David Friedberg. (https://youtu.be/K2xfW3hgxb4?si=bjBXRLduRuAk_I4m https://youtu.be/K2xfW3hgxb4?si=bjBXRLduRuAk_I4m 1:08:00 mark) At best, people have only said “murder is bad”. There are a lot of people, including my friends, who are totally okay with assassination. I think by now we know the perp is an anti-capitalist and that was his rationale. People do not recognize the importance of business in the world. Edit: also, the internet isn’t real and people don’t take this stuff seriously. Mix that in with bots from adversarial countries stoking the flames and we have a recipe for disaster.

fragmede 2y ago

It's stated as "artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tool" which seems broad enough.

Aurornis 2y ago

Decision trees are inherent to every medical system around the world. Banning them would do nothing other than drive the cost of insurance way up because every single claim would require human review and involvement, likely checking the exact same decision tree that was being implemented automatically. Fortunately the bill doesn’t actually do that. The way so many people in these comments are cheering for an obviously terrible cost adder demonstrates how off the rails discourse on this topic has become. Forcing human involvement for every claim (by banning algorithms) would also make for massively higher error rates for simple things.

janderson215 2y ago
People clearly no longer care about reality when it comes to healthcare. They’re either stupid, horribly mislead, or terrible people. We’ll see an exodus of good people leaving the industry because they don’t care tolerate the sentiment and the US healthcare system will be run by actual terrible and/or stupid people and the problem will get far worse than it is today. There is no correcting mechanism to this sentiment when public figures including politicians and executives in other industries do not set the record straight and correct obvious misunderstandings. I’ve heard 1 person go the distance of attempting to set the record straight since Brian Thompson was assassinated and that is David Friedberg. (https://youtu.be/K2xfW3hgxb4?si=bjBXRLduRuAk_I4m https://youtu.be/K2xfW3hgxb4?si=bjBXRLduRuAk_I4m 1:08:00 mark) At best, people have only said “murder is bad”. There are a lot of people, including my friends, who are totally okay with assassination. I think by now we know the perp is an anti-capitalist and that was his rationale. People do not recognize the importance of business in the world. Edit: also, the internet isn’t real and people don’t take this stuff seriously. Mix that in with bots from adversarial countries stoking the flames and we have a recipe for disaster.