SCOOP: In his first meeting with staff, Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
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SCOOP: In his first meeting with staff, Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
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Sources tell WIRED that Oz claimed that patients have rated the care they’ve received from an AI avatar as equal to or better than a human doctor. (Research suggests patients are actually more skeptical of medical advice given by AI.)
Oz has seemingly never worked in health care policy before, but served as a physician for many years before becoming the star of The Dr. Oz Show. He has promoted a number of provably incorrect medical tips and also unsuccessfully ran for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
You cannot pick and chose what AI tells you: This DATA is accurate: "The new approach suggests that 22.8% of the population experience the symptoms of long COVID, a figure that may paint a more realistic picture of the pandemic’s long-term toll." www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new... (a)
We call this shit the IKEA model of market capture - here's some thoughts on what's coming and how to fight back 👇
Industrial production is coming to economic realms that have so far been resisting it, from driving to research, the law, or therapy. For the time being, that will probably take the IKEA model: compete not on quality (AI will continue to be unreliable), but on price. Leave the high end markets 1/n
Well, considering he did this 👇 when all his attention should have been on his patients, it’s no wonder he doesn’t think medical professionals are needed. 😒 🔗: www.vox.com/2015/4/16/84...
He could be like the CEO who was super excited that his chatbot convinced a woman to euthanize her dog. futurism.com/ai-ceo-chatb...
Decisions have consequences. Remember the Senators who confirmed this quack. www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...