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I’m going to have to disagree with your reply.

AI is capable of doing a better and more efficient job of diagnosing and recommending surgeries than humans, or even human created algorithms.

Think about Chess. When computers were in their infancy, there was much skepticism that a computer could ever master the game of chess and reliably beat the world’s best players. Eventually we made chess engines that were very strong, by feeding them tons of data and chess theory, basically giving them algorithms that helped them contend with top players. These engines performed well because they played the game at the level of top players but without the human component to make a natural human error. They could beat grand masters, but it wasn’t a sure victory.

Enter AI. New chess engines were made with AI neural networks, and rather than feeding them tons of chess data and theory, they are just given the rules of the game and set to play and learn with the goal of increasing their win rate. These AI chess engines were able to far surpass previous conventional algorithmic engines because they were self-learning and defied conventional chess theory, discovering new ways to play and win, showing humans variations and positions never considered before that could win.

In a similar way, AI could do the same with healthcare, and basically anything else. If the AI is advanced enough and given the goal of finding the best survival rate/quality of life for diagnosis and surgery, it will do so more efficiently than any human or basic algorithm because it will see patterns and possibilities that today’s best doctors and surgeons do not. It is obvious that a sufficiently advanced AI would diagnose you and recommend the correct and best surgery more accurately and more efficiently than even the worlds best possible team of professionals or any non-learning algorithm.

But the issue is the insurance companies will never instruct the AI that best survival rates/quality of life is the “checkmate”, but rather whatever outcomes lead to the highest profit with least amount of legal or litigation risk.

I hope y'all are joking

CMS will partner with private companies that specialize in enhanced technologies, like AI or machine learning, to assess coverage for select items and services delivered through Medicare.

In particular, the American Hospital Association expressed concerns regarding the participating vendor payment structure, which it says incentivizes denials at the expense of physician medical judgment.

This is going to be even MORE corrupt than what we have today, and its going to hurt people even more. Meanwhile enriching AI tech bros off the already bloated medical system in this country.

Guarantee you that if this ends up becoming a widespread thing, insurance companies will lobby hard to be the ones to help "calibrate" the AI.

I couldn't have said it better myself and completely agree. Use as an assistant; just not the main driver or final decision-maker.

Step 1: place a bet on a prediction market that Dr Oz will be alive past a certain date

Step 2: get others to place "bets"

Step 3: pew pew

Step 4: someone gets rich

Edit: this is why such markets should be illegal