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Red and Blue States Alike Want To Limit AI in Insurance. Trump Wants To Limit the States. (kffhealthnews.org)
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It’s the rare policy question that unites Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and the Democratic-led Maryland government against President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California: How should health insurers use AI?

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Insurance has long been based on statistical modeling, so advanced ML models and elaborate data pipelines are a natural evolution. I assume “AI” in this context refers to LLMs, though, which deals with the probability of a sequence of text occurring as opposed to the probability of the event being insured occurring, so how does that make sense?

[–] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I agree 100%. The only appropriate use I can think of is using it to field FAQs or KB articles in a conversational scenario. Even then, how much use would that get over a basic search index they probably added a decade ago. Ugh.