Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban on Reporters, and How A.I. Is Driving Up Health Care Costs
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Traci Mumford. Today's Thursday, September 24th. Here's what we're covering. In a very late-night ruling handed down after midnight, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. blocked President Trump from keeping CNN, MSNOW, and Politico out of the White House. The judge said Trump's ban on the news organizations, which the president announced last Friday, was likely unconstitutional and told the administration to, quote, "...immediately return, reinstate, and restore the press credentials for journalists who work at those outlets." The White House had argued in a court filing that the ban was necessary to protect national security, but the judge rejected that.
His ruling is a temporary reprieve for the journalists. It'll last 14 days while the judge considers the case further. For the last week, many media outlets have pulled back from their pool coverage of presidential events in solidarity with the banned outlets. It's not clear how quickly things could restart or if, for example, a full spread of journalists will be there tonight to cover the state dinner at the White House for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Even before the ruling came down, Trump wrote on social media that his administration would, quote, almost without question, appeal.
A new report out this morning shows how the growing use of artificial intelligence by hospitals is causing medical costs to surge. The report, put out by a group of insurers, claims that over the past two years, hospitals have billed for nearly a billion dollars in additional expenses by using AI to code various medical conditions as more complex, even with no evidence that the patients received different care. For example, AI systems might prompt a doctor to list a secondary diagnosis like anemia or low sodium, which would increase the overall bill sent to the insurance company. And it can really add up. The CFO of one small hospital and healthcare system in Michigan told The Times that by using AI to more thoroughly document patients' cases, they'd been able to boost revenue by a million dollars a month.
At the same time, just as providers are using sophisticated AI tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies themselves have been accused of using AI tools to delay or deny claims. Healthcare experts warn that the competing use of AI tech could get out of hand, with one doctor who founded an AI health company telling the Times, that's the danger, where it's bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in. For the moment, patients are getting caught in the middle as costs are projected to rise, with analysts pointing not just to AI, but also to the rising price of prescription drugs and other factors. This year, Americans who got health insurance through their jobs are paying an average of about $2,000 more than they were last year.
And according to one recent estimate, those costs are expected to climb again next year, too. Now, in another AI development...
I want to update Australians on an incident in which an artificial intelligence agent has infiltrated an Australian government website.
What did the federal judge decide about Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico?
The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, said yesterday that AI agents from the tech giant OpenAI hacked into a federal health care website there, the first known instance of an AI breach into government systems. Albanese said it happened back in June when a team from OpenAI was using AI agents to research public health spending.
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