But while cutting staff and leaving hospitals to crumble are inarguable malpractice, the palliative care scam is harder to pin down. By using "AI" to decide when patients are beyond help, HCA can employ #EmpiricismWashing, declaring the matter to be the factual - and unquestionable - conclusion of a mathematical process, not mere profit-seeking:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/#garbage-in-garbage-out-garbage-back-in

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More: ""empiricism washing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures, and whenever anyone accuses you of bias, you can insist that you're just following an empirical conclusion of a neutral algorithm, because "math can't be racist."
#EmpiricismWashing #dataBias #AI

It'll tell you do throw even *more* Black kids up against a wall and search their pockets. The more you do this, the more knives you'll find, and the more you'll go back and do it again.

This is what #PatrickBall from the #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup calls "#EmpiricismWashing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures.

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