We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
REGULATION
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California’s AI-Driven Healthcare Denial Policy and Consultancy Spending
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… neighborhoods to access healthcare was official policy and Californian government, among many other things, spent tens of millions of dollars on consultancies to build web apps to scalably enforce denial of appointments on basis of residence.
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Medical Policy Enforcement: Implicit Rules Shape Healthcare Professional Conduct
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For example, when X was “we will yank the license of, destroy the reputation of, and if possible prosecute any medical professional who delivers a dose out of order”, which was *definitely policy until it wasn’t* but which *shaped actions later, too.*
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Policy Inconsistency: Announcement, Rescission, and Implementation Gaps
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Would also note that a repeated issue that year was that Policy X was announced, Policy X was rescinded and replaced with X’, other actors would continue implementing X, and then if asked policymakers would say “X is not policy” to e.g. kill coverage which would be negative.
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Government Healthcare Policy and Private Actor Discrimination Ethics
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… private actors. (Not all of whom would have needed the explicit government imprimatur to discriminate against some patients, but the imprimatur caused many people to say “Well certainly not my call here. I can wash my hands of this.”)
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Government Actions on AI: Ethics and Accountability
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Some people I respect reason from “If we had actually done that it would have been monstrously evil” to “We did not do that.” Unfortunately, we *very much* did that. Up and down the U.S., at almost every level of government, and incorporated by reference into decisions of many
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AI-driven redlining in California healthcare raises ethical concerns
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See generally https://
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U.S. Healthcare Institutions Prioritized Race Over Lives Saved
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Sanity did not, in fact, prevail. Many governmental institutions in the U.S., including in California, did factually prioritize delivery of lifesaving medication by race, in the contemporaneous knowledge that this would pessimize for lives saved.
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EU Commission Releases In-Depth GenAI Impact Analysis Report
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The @EU_Commission released a report with an in-depth analysis of the technological and social impacts of #GenAI https://
bit.ly/4jS8AN4 #GenerativeAI #AI @mvollmer1 @enilev @anijov @CatherineAdenle @FmFrancoise @AkwyZ @jblefevre60 @BetaMoroney @Kevin_ODonovan @CurieuxExplorer -

AI Decision Contestability: Human Comprehension Limits
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L’idée selon laquelle nous pourrons contester les décisions de l’Intelligence Artificielle est complètement NAÏVE Il devient impossible de contester les décisions de l’IA tant les sujets sont trop compliqués pour les cerveaux humains C’est VIOLENT !