EFF Criticizes US Government's Use of AI For Evaluating Senior Health Insurance Requests
Slashdot reports that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in its newsletter EFFector, criticized a federal program called WISeR, launched in January, that uses AI to evaluate authorization requests for certain procedures under Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors. The EFF argues that treatment decisions should be made by doctors, not a tech company's algorithm. According to the piece, the EFF sued for records about the program and says it found "additional issues" that it believes could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries.
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EFF Criticizes US Government's Use of AI For Evaluating Senior Health Insurance Requests
"When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm," writes the EFF newsletter EFFector. But in January America's federal government launched a program called WISeR that uses AI to evaluate authorization requests for certain procedures from America's federal health insurance program for seniors, Medicare. EFF sued for records and discovered "additional issues" with the program that they say "could jeopardize Medicare bene
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