When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.
@parismarx From a business perspective, the biggest thing about LLMs is not what they can actually do but how they can wash away responsibility. That's a huge deal to the rentier class, and "AI" proponents are well aware of it.
@Obdurodon@parismarx
Companies have been pretending like nobody is personally responsible for shitty behavior for a long time by saying "it's just policy." However, people have always known that, at some level, people wrote those policies.
Much more recently, it's gotten worse when they can say "it's just the algorithm." Sure, people wrote the algorithms, but they're much more arcane than a written document.
@feld@parismarx the thing is they (probably) won't get punished
because it wasn't a human who made the decision, it was a machine
so they aren't punished for malice, just incompetence
@parismarx The problem with the “fantasies” is that when their feasibility will become evident to a non-specialist it would be waaaaaay too late to do anything.
Meanwhile, enjoy fighting your corporate overlords. There’s no real need to dunk on other people working on other problems.
@parismarx This was almost certainly not "AI" in any real sense. The company is just using the word as a barrier to stop people asking questions. What data was this model based on? Who decided the rules it should follow?
My guess is it was a simple linear regression based on previous insurance decisions, which of course are not biased in any way at all.
It doesn't matter how accurate it is, so long as it gives the answer that's more profitable. And because it's a black box to everyone who doesn't understand AI, it's a very useful tool for profiting.
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