bsmall2Mar 8
> When Futurism reached out to the Pentagon regarding the use of AI in recent military operations — specifically the targeting of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — we were referred to US CENTCOM, one of eleven unified commands under the Pentagon’s umbrella.
> “We have nothing for you on this at this time,” #CENTCOM said.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school
#SalamiMilitary #AITargeting #PentagonAI #NeilPostman's (?maybe? ) #AgenticShift comes to mind..
/HT @jonny via @hacks4pancakes
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

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Show threadbsmall2Dec 18, 2024
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> The more honest diagnosis would be that the responses are the result of a broken political system that offers no real way for people to have their healthcare grievances addressed—but that would call not for scolding screwed-over patients, but rather demanding political reform that challenges entrenched political and corporate interests that the Times has little interest in challenging.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/
#UnitedHealthCare #uspol #AISalami #AgenticShift #AIinMedicine
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NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies 

The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

FAIR
bsmall2Dec 18, 2024

> Senate Democrats accused the company of “denying claims to a growing number of patients as it tried to leverage artificial intelligence to automate the process,” a kind of capitalist nightmare with a sci-fi twist (Fox Business, 12/6/24).
https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/

#AIinHealthcare #AISalami #AgenticShift #UnitedHealthCare #uspol #FairOrg

NYT Panics Over Outrage at Insurance Companies 

The New York Times is in full-scale panic mode over the widespread boiling anger against the health insurance industry the killing of Brian Thompson has laid bare.

FAIR
bsmall2Dec 18, 2024
> ... the company illegally deployed "artificial intelligence (AI) in place of real medical professionals to wrongfully deny elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans by overriding their treating physicians’ determinations as to medically necessary care based on an AI model."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/unitedhealthcare-accused-relying-ai-algorithms-deny-medicare-advantage-claims
#uspol #AISalami #AgenticShift #AIinMedicine #AIinHealthCare #UnitedHealthCare
UnitedHealthcare accused of relying on AI algorithms to deny Medicare Advantage claims

United Healthcare is being accused of denying a growing number of claims for post-acute care as it shifted to using artificial intelligence to automate the process.

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Show threadBrian SmallOct 27, 2023

As a teacher of budding scientific and technical professionals, I’m again and again struck by how little sense of personal autonomy is part of today’s education, our modern ›Paideia.‹ Students hope to master the fundamentals of, say, one of the branches of engineering, get a ›good job,‹ come up with some lucrative ›innovation‹ and live happily ever after. Very often they simply lack any sense that they might reflect upon, talk about, and seek to realize an independent, personal understanding of life’s possibilities. Thus, the autonomy of technology often comes to the fore when ascertaining people’s sense of basic priorities. But the intellectual and moral autonomy of today’s students, employees and citizens? Not so much. #LangdonWinner on #Technopoly reference #JaquesEllul and #KarlMarx "who always knew who was in charge..... surprises and troubles attributed to technologies that seem to have become ›autonomous‹ can often be traced back to the persons and groups that are ›in charge.‹ Marx describes the kinds of mechanical apparatus that fully claimed the bodies and minds of factory workers in his day. As he explains such calamities in his h#TheoryOfCapital, it’s clear that the owners of the #MeansOfProduction bear full responsibility for what happens. #AgenticShift
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bs2Mar 14, 2023
> .. insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an older patient’s treatment. The denials that follow are setting off heated disputes between doctors and insurers, often delaying treatment of seriously ill patients who are neither aware of the algorithms, nor able to question their calculations.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
#AISalami #AgenticShift #MedicareAdvantage #Medicare
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.

STAT
Show threadbs2Mar 14, 2023
> An #algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine...
> On the 17th day, her #MedicareAdvantage insurer, #SecurityHealthPlan.. cut off payment for her care.. Meanwhile, medical notes in June 2019 showed Walter’s pain was maxing out the scales and that she could not dress herself, go to the bathroom, or even push a walker without help.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/medicare-advantage-plans-denial-artificial-intelligence/
#AgenticShift
Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need

A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.

STAT
bs2Feb 22, 2023
> Why blame people? We may call this line of thinking an “#AgenticShift,” a term.. from #StanleyMilgram to name the process whereby humans transfer responsibility for an outcome from themselves to a more abstract agent. When this happens, we have relinquished control, which in the case of #TheComputer [#AI] means that we may, without excessive remorse, pursue ill-advised or even #InhumanGoals because the computer can accomplish them or be imagined to accomplish them.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly