We won't just have death panels. We'll have automated death panels!
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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And this is what the Democrats should start hammering in if they were competent
“AI DEATH PANELS” out of every media outlet
Delay Deny Depose
Beep Boop
“This woman needs open heart surgery, stat!”
“I’m sorry, Dr. Dave. I’m afraid you can’t do that.”
You don't need AI for that, they just use it as a scapegoat. At this point they may use a dummy named Steve. "I am sorry, Steve denied you medicare".
It is a simple algorithm that does not require "AI".
They will use Grok so the government will be even more systematically racist.
Theoretically AI could reduce delays in approvals because a machine can approve someone for cover faster than a human. But what happens with the denied people? The article does not seem to mention whether refusals still have an appeal option which would then guarantee human intervention (one presumes).
In principle, more humans should be freed up to work on appeals if AI is used for the initial decision. But knowing the Trump regime, those freed up people will have a job security problem.
In Europe, the GDPR would theoretically¹ protect people from this. Automated decision making is generally banned but has exceptions. But even when automated decision making is legal, there is a legal obligation to have the possibility of human intervention.
Some US states have their own dilluted GDPR variant, but I think none of them give a shit about automated decision making.
¹ I say “theoretically” because GDPR enforcement is a disaster.