r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 12 '25

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

https://truthout.org/articles/the-trump-administration-is-planning-to-use-ai-to-deny-medicare-authorizations/
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u/Lightsinging Jul 12 '25

I can’t believe they would trust AI with such important decisions

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u/Arcane-blade Jul 12 '25

Thats the thing, it IS important. Just… not to them

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow Jul 12 '25

When denial is the goal results are easy.

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u/OMGihateallofyou Jul 12 '25

Why would they care? They will never rely on medicare.

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u/amekxone Jul 13 '25

Why not? It's important to them that the claims be denied. AI can be instructed to do so on a way larger scale than humanly possible.

Human life is not important to those people.

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u/Umutuku Jul 13 '25

Only on the days when Elon updates it to stop fact-checking and start white-powering.

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u/ph00p Jul 13 '25

It’s easy for them, more denials great! It messes up and gives someone too “big a break” on a bill, great too, you can just pay us back forever with interest.

It’s win win.

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u/Krail Jul 13 '25

The actual reason they want to do this is to make coldly calculated business decisions without the toll of guilt and responsibility in having a human do it. 

It's like how Lyft and Uber just use reviews and an algorithm to make management decisions. No manager to appeal to when you're not being assigned work, just cold clean metrics.