2w ago

The Trump Administration Is Planning to Use AI to Deny Medicare Authorizations

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I heard from a friend who does medicare data analytics at health insurance companies that when they tried to model which patients to deny it explicitly suggested never approving certain interventions for black people
- thats probably what trump administration is after, denying POCs, gays, Democrats even since they are likely to have acess to voter rolls too.
- Hold please, while I give you my genuine surprised reaction...
  prepares
  isn't surprised.
  Huh. Guess I wasn't surprised after all.
How is it legal for them to give our health information to AI?????????? Without explicit consent?? And why are they able to access and look through it like this, when normally records are protected from this?
I can think of several reason by the way this should be illegal:
AI is experimental, and this is further an experimental use of AI. Test subjects, especially medical test subjects, must be able to know if they are being experimented on and must be able to consent
AI adapts and "learns" from input and can be prompted to spit that data out - it is not secure for protected and private information
Want to double emphasize it is not a secure system for private information laws
AI also is an outside company and is not the government, we did not give them permission tonaccess our health data and the government themselves has no warrant or emergency need to access our healthcare data either - this isn't a legal way to access health records
- Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Easy there. You're missing the most important part.
  ............laws don't matter to maga.
  
  Well some of us has judges in our states that DO care so it's good to be aware
- The short answer is there's a good chunk of Americans on some form of Medicaid (regardless of what name it wears) and in exchange for healthcare provided by the government, they give access of their medical PII to the government because the government is their healthcare insurance provider.
  
  But that doesn't mean any rando in the government can access anyone's health data on a whim, legally. You have to have a reason to access it. Even just accessing date of birth is protected.
- Without explicit consent
  What has Trump ever done that has required consent?
- taking the first question at face value: they could use an agentic system to keep the data within their own ecosystem and run the models locally
  
  But that doesn't safeguard the system from unauthorized use of it, and regardless, accessing medical data without a warrant is not legal. So the cases should be dismissed on that alone.
If I am a doctor, I’ll put prompt injection attacks on patients’ insurance claims to help them get the care they need.
Although I think the quote should be:
Yousa thinking USA people gonna die?
CALLED IT THE DAY CHATGPT CAME OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
im getting sick and tired of being right all the time.
one more thing to watch for, they are going to use AI to create custom viruses that are going to go after specific genes in the population and erradicate them like the enclave wanted to do with project purity in fallout 3 for people with mutations. using information from databases pulled from companies like 23 and me.
autistics, ADHD, LGBTQ+, specific races, and other "less preferable" genetic markers will be targeted. with those in power sharing those markers being vaccinated well in advance.
tinfoil hat coming off now.
- I hear ya. It’s like working with a room full of people who keep runnng headfirst into the wall.
  
  the true retards of our generation, fascists and those that support them.
- You basically just described the creation (yes, creation) of AIDS in thr 80s, with gay people being targeted.
This is why they're hell bent for leather on making Ell Em an example.
Just what you want, a computer in charge of peoples health, blind Freddy can see where all this ends up
I can already see an eugenics "Mecha Hitler" AI, going out of it's way to cool undesirables.

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