Had a friend who's a physical therapist say happily that AI tools were making her job much easier lately. She looked put out when I said "please don't get yourself arrested" and she said something along the lines of "but they make these tools specifica...
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Had a friend who's a physical therapist say happily that AI tools were making her job much easier lately. She looked put out when I said "please don't get yourself arrested" and she said something along the lines of "but they make these tools specifically for us!"
I don't know how I can possibly stress enough to people who have never been in the tech industry how little they care if you are following the law or killing patients or what not as long as you give them your money first.
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Sam Whitedreplied to Sam Whited last edited by [email protected]
This is the promise and the problem with AI though: it's always a bandaid, an easy, instant, convenient "solution" to problems that need to be solved the hard way. I want your paperwork to be easier too, but the way to do that is to unionize and to fix the insurance companies, not to patch over the annoyance with bullshit machines and let the insurance execs keep doing what they're doing.
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@sam sacrifice everything for convenience. It’s the way of the world now.
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@DEDGirl yah, this is the key reason I take the luddist position on things like AI: sure, convenience is great, but it's never free and we have to weigh it against all the externalities. If you save 3 seconds on your commute, but thousands of people die every year in traffic violence, maybe we need to re-think the speed and size of cars. If the AI fixes the problem you had with your paperwork, but the insurance companies get to keep extracting money from you while the environment burns… etc.
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@DEDGirl What I'm saying, I suppose, is "pick up Enoch's Hammer and smash AI until we find a way to use it without burning the planet and getting people hurt"
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Sam Whitedreplied to Sam Whited last edited by [email protected]
(to be clear, I'm not blaming my friend for this: she has never been in the tech industry and has no reason to understand how AI works, what working for these companies is like, or why any of this is such a bad idea; she's the victim here as much as the patient who's chart gets entered wrong or whatever and gets hurt by it)
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@sam Yikes, using it to file insurance claims? Don't rely on software that returns statistically probable answers to produce anything that might be subject to a fraud investigation.
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@lrhodes I don't know what she's using it for, to be fair.