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The rise of AI in healthcare will lead to the dissemination of specific encoded values at scale.
Their wordsAs AI-enabled decision support becomes more robust, more persuasive, and perhaps even agentic, it will quietly encode one set of values and disseminate it at scale.
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AI's primary impact on healthcare costs will be through its influence on clinical decisions.
Their wordsBut AI's real impact on costs will come through its effect on clinical decisions.
Their wordsAs these tradeoffs become explicit, we can expect a vigorous debate about rationing. And in the U.S., we can guarantee it will be politicized.
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