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All of Our Hopes and Fears for Tech in 2025

To wrap up 2024, this week on 'Uncanny Valley' we talk about the tech products we most fear and love.

And one thing that's really stood out to me that I've been thinking about this week in particular is, I had gotten in this habit of watching the clips of these guys, or reading other people's take on what they were saying, because the podcasts are so damn long. They did a series of four or five articles called Denied By AI, and it was about how Medicare Advantage Plans were using algorithms to cut off care, and particularly for senior citizens in need. There've been a couple stories published recently about people who are using LLMs to very quickly generate letters to insurance companies to actually fight back against claim denials.

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