EFF Sues Federal Government for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment on Elderly Patients

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on March 26 demanding transparency about Medicare's use of AI systems in healthcare decisions affecting elderly patients. The suit seeks documents about how AI algorithms are being used to approve or deny care, raising accountability concerns about automated decision-making in healthcare. This adds to the growing pattern of civil liberties organizations challenging opaque government AI deployments, following similar actions around predictive policing and benefits administration.