The AI Mortality Predictor

Stolen hospital data taught an AI to predict who dies next, and insurance companies

are knocking. Researchers used records to forecast mortality with eighty seven percent accuracy.

The algorithm also learned to distinguish between profitable and expensive patients. Systems could deny

you coverage before you even get sick. ER technology is being weaponized to

exclude vulnerable people from care. We built tools to help humanity but forgot to

ask who controls them and what they optimize. Will we let predictions determine who

deserves treatment?