But while cutting staff and leaving hospitals to crumble are inarguable malpractice, the palliative care scam is harder to pin down. By using "AI" to decide when patients are beyond help, HCA can employ #EmpiricismWashing, declaring the matter to be the factual - and unquestionable - conclusion of a mathematical process, not mere profit-seeking:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in
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But this empirical facewash evaporates when confronted with whistleblower accounts of hospital administrators who have no medical credentials berating doctors for a "missed hospice opportunity" when a physician opts to keep a patient under their care despite the algorithm's determination.
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This is the true "#AISafety" risk. It's not that a chatbot will become sentient and take over the world - it's that the original artificial lifeform, the limited liability company, will use "AI" to accelerate its murderous shell-game until we can't spot the trick:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/10/in-the-dumps-2/
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