Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment. Vendors rolling out AI have an “incentive to deny as many claims as possible.”

In January, the Trump administration rolled out a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare—a federal healthcare program for seniors that previously hasn’t required doctors to get any such pre-approval, called prior authorization. Not long after, media outlets began relaying the disastrous outcomes: technical difficulties,...