Paris MarxWhen we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
Nicole ParsonsWorry more about AI becoming part of business models of funded malign influence campaigns
Like the GOP lies that let 1.18 million Americans die of preventable disease
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/covid-deaths-anti-vaccine-republican-voters/672575/
Imagine if Texas's Dan Patrick's donors had been able to buy an AI-assisted covid disinfo campaign, instead of relying on Fox News?
It wouldn't have just been granny targeted for callous & neglectful social murder. It would have been POC, non-Christians, & immigrants too
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
Someone within the GOP donor class paid a lot of money to spread covid disinformation...who?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-unnecessary-deaths-covid-19
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/18/trump-coronavirus-plan-bailouts/
The Day Trump Decided to Let Hundreds of Thousands of Americans Die to Gain Political Advantage | Common Dreams
Once the disgraced former president realized who was dying most from Covid-19 things began to change as the federal government stopped trying to save lives and started promoting policies that would eventually kill — unnecessarily — a half-million Americans.