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 A “research group” from Mount Sinai in New York used personal data from a patient database (without the patients’ knowledge) in an AI algorithm system to see not only who might have a proclivity toward disease, but what kind: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/.
They named it Deep Patient: "Without any expert instruction, Deep Patient had discovered patterns hidden in the hospital data that seemed to indicate when people were on the way to a wide range of ailments, including cancer of the liver. There are a lot of methods that are “pretty good” at predicting disease from a patient’s records, says Joel Dudley, who leads the Mount Sinai team. But, he adds, “this was just way better.” " In other studies, AI has also ‘predicted’ other diseases, like heart disease, alzheimers, and even premature death. The medical insurance industry already been utilizes “health care” panels of people to decide who gets to receive medical treatment (and to what extent) and who does not. And that is bad enough. Now imagine a computer algorithm—that even the minds that invent them and set them in motion admit they do not fully understand—gets to decide whether someone is deemed ‘worthy’ for treatment or not. Imagine a computer reading your x-ray, or analyzing your bloodwork--this disastrous idea is one of the latest to emerge from the ‘healthcare’ industry.
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 “There seem, in fact, to be only two views we can hold about awe. Either it is a mere twist in the human mind, corresponding to nothing objective and serving no biological function, yet showing no tendency to disappear from that mind at its fullest development in poet, philosopher, or saint: or else it is a direct experience of the really supernatural, to which the name Revelation, might properly be given.” --C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.  "Naturally the present tendency to destroy all tradition or render it unconscious could interrupt the normal process of development for several hundred years and substitute an interlude of barbarism. Wherever the Marxist utopia prevails, this has already happened...Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.”
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