[tossandthrow]

The issue is that a case worker that has been instructed to delay processes (or has incentive structures in place to do so) is equally bad.

I think we just need regulation. Not regulation that takes AI into account.

[dv_dt]

Agreed, I think of a standardized clerical process (even if wholly administered by humans) as an algorithm.

I’m not a lawyer but I suspect there are regulations that apply to unjustified denial of insurance healthcare services - they don’t seem to be closely enforced and moreover there is also a frustrating magical enforcement loophole when software becomes involved where even previous precedents seem to need to be reestablished just because tech doing the denial is somehow different than people following a process.