I have to admit that I did not see coming that my near-future #speculative #thriller novel, THE ALGORITHM WILL SEE YOU NOW, would appear naive within two years of publication because I only thought about possible consequences of misuse of #data, #AI #hallucinations, and hidden #biases. I failed to imagine a government simply stopping collecting the data

Another great article from @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

#books #bookstodon #MedMastodon

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.

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@JL_Lycette @ProPublica
Why would you need to collect data that might not support official pronouncements? Easier to make it up along the way, as they're doing so much else.