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":
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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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Discussion
Incentives matter. In a private market, it's *always* more profitable to deny care than to provide it, and any metric we bolt onto that system to prevent cheating will immediately become a target. For-profit healthcare is an oxymoron, a prelude to death panels that will kill you for a nickel.
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