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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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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

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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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

The risk is real. A 2020 study in the *#JournalOfHealthcareManagement* concluded that the cash incentives for shipping patients to palliatve care "may induce deceiving changes in mortality reporting in several high-volume hospital diagnoses":

https://journals.lww.com/jhmonline/Fulltext/2020/04000/The_Association_of_Increasing_Hospice_Use_With.7.aspx

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