Only in 'Murica would life-saving developments be used to deny people treatment so that some rich cunts can accumulate even more wealth

It's a broken country, and I can't wait to see it fall

Alright, if you look at this story from a more reputable source (Reuters), it's quite a bit different. Meta isn't accused of using AI with people's medical information to make early diagnoses and lay them off. Instead,

According to the complaint, Meta used a number of internal AI-assisted systems to score and rank employees ⁠on a ​termination list. Those included "Metamate," a large language model assistant; an employee-trained "second ​brain" that tracked workers' communications and documents; and a productivity score drawn from scanning keystrokes, screen content, emails and browser history, according ​to the lawsuit.

The 26 plaintiffs, who ⁠filed the lawsuit anonymously, are accusing Meta of violating federal and state laws that ban discrimination or retaliation against workers who have disabilities, take medical leave or are ​pregnant. They also claim that Meta failed to test its AI systems for ​bias in ⁠violation of recently adopted California and New York City laws.

So it's still shitty workplace surveillance and discrimination but not the same kind of surveillance and discrimination alleged in the Twitter posts. Meta is using AI to try to rank workers' productivity (on a bunch of shitty metrics) in a way that may discriminate against people with disabilities or who take medical leave or who are pregnant.

The better question is why does their employer have access to their private medical data

Reason 748 on why the US health system is fucked up.

Anywhere else in the world, this saves lives.

"Technology" under capitalism is a regressive force for violence, theft, and control.

The Supreme Court just ruled that it's not racism unless someone specifically points at an action and says "I'd like to do that racism, please!" and so I expect them to use that precedent to target people with disabilities. "They didn't say it out loud, and even though a policy specifically harmed the disabled, it doesn't count"

Edit. Louisiana v Callais

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais

This sounds American.

Funny that this isnt even "AI". This is image and pattern recognition software that's been used in medicine for years and years. The AI part is that it's scraping all your medical data together into a single RAG so they can use it to fuck you over as efficiently as possible in the name of making more money.

Oh look, psychopath CEOs are helping people die faster. And we still do nothing.

This reminds me of the movie Gattaca. A future world where your path in life is heavily influenced based on your genes.

Oh thank god I live in a country with universal Healthcare and not in some dystopian syndicalist hellhole. This scenario is unthinkable where I live, AI in medicine is seen here as useful ...

Sounds like zuck needs to have irreversible health issues~

How are employers getting a hold of these results?

"Our most pessimistic theories were not bad enough"

This is truly sad. If this technology is going to work like claimed in the future and diagnosed early breast cancer in just 5% of people it could help save 32000 people a year and help a lot of people who don't die but have to go though a horrible treatment process.

Lives that can be saved via early treatments, instead used to profile people based on their health conditions, disabilities and other factors ismorbidly sickening, We truly do think that Neural Learning Model can be a strong tool as a data sorting algorithm in health and science, but cannot give us answers itself, only point out things we can’t see

Allways this, better than "Fuck AI" is "Fuck AI from big corps" (and big greedy corps too)