Heeding calls from investors, Trump admin rushing to replace doctors with unproven AI systems that could harm patients

[lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org]

Heeding calls from investors, Trump admin rushing to replace doctors with unproven AI systems that could harm patients

Gift Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/health/ai-doctors-medicare-fda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.q7GH._r33D0XHeLXN&smid=url-share

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[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@lauren I've seen this coming for a while. Promising, with no evidence, that AI doctors will be a boon. Frequently, it is phrased as giving medical advice to people without access to MDs. It is easy to see that, once they are introduced for the poorest, suddenly they will become a "cost effective" alternative for working class, then middle class. In the end, only the very wealthy will have medical care. Everyone else gets a magic 8 ball.

[klausfiend@mstdn.ca]

@rrb @lauren If you're already on board with the aggressive quackery of RFK Jr., though, is this really such a shocking development? Facts, evidence, data, these are all trifles to disciples of woo.

[rrb@infosec.exchange]

@klausfiend @lauren A magic 8 ball gives better medical advice than HHS under RFK Jr,