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What's your thoughts on this proposal? I think I would have voted yes.

"Last year, about a quarter of all health insurance claims were denied in California — a reality mirrored nationwide that has stoked public anger toward health care companies, and led to accusations that such decisions lack human empathy.

But this month, a new state law is taking on the latest twist in the debate, ensuring that a human’s perspective cannot literally be removed from such decisions by prohibiting coverage denials be made on the sole basis of artificial intelligence algorithms."

What's your thoughts on this proposal? I think I would have voted yes.

"Last year, about a quarter of all health insurance claims were denied in California — a reality mirrored nationwide that has stoked public anger toward health care companies, and led to accusations that such decisions lack human empathy.

But this month, a new state law is taking on the latest twist in the debate, ensuring that a human’s perspective cannot literally be removed from such decisions by prohibiting coverage denials be made on the sole basis of artificial intelligence algorithms."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/01/05/new-california-law-ban-artificial-intelligence-deny-insurance-claims/

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I agree 100%. AI should not be trusted with any big public decisions for a (long) while.
Analysis yes.

Probably the right move for now. It's not so much AI's fault as it is the insurance companies' near guarantee for training the AI to deny claims that shouldn't be denied

Seems fair, but I wonder if it might complicate processes that AI could streamline efficiently 71 $degen