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> 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
Feb 22, 2023 at 8:11amWeb
Show threadbs2Feb 22, 2023
Wondering if publish-or-perish and status-seeking has already caused a sort of DDOS attack on academic journals, I started reading about academic hoaxes, Sokal-style. The Reproducibility movement reminded me of Neil Postman talking about scientific method being useful for things that are falsifiable(?). Postman also wrote that there was a time when novels helped people figure out who they were and what they wanted to be, but more recently it had been the social scientists like Milgram..
Show threadbs2Feb 22, 2023
But while searching through the book I found a quote that seemed to fit in with AI: we're being set up to accept some terrible policies. The concert-ticket price fiasco with Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen could be a pattern that might effect essential things. It's fascinating to see that Taylor Swift took on more agency by suing TicketMaster while Bruce was just seemed Wall-Street-guy about it: whatever the market will bear and why don't sweating musicians get more of the loot.
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.

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