Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

The Trump administration launched WISeR in January, a pilot using AI to decide authorisation for some Medicare services for elderly patients, which previously required no advance approval from doctors. Reports described technical failures, lengthy approval and treatment delays, confusing denials and patients waiting in pain. Federal documents obtained and published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation in litigation earlier this month, including provider feedback, largely corroborated those reports.