EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment

Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors' Care SAN FRANCISCO - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state program that is using AI to evaluate requests for medical care. "Tasking an algorithm with making determinations about treatment can create unwarranted - and even discriminatory - delays or denials of necessary medical care," said Kit Walsh, EFF’s Director of AI and Access-to-Knowledge Legal Projects.