When AI Told a Dying Man What He Wanted to Hear
Joe Riley trusted AI over his oncologist and died of a treatable cancer. His tragedy wasn't naivety — it was earned distrust, amplified by a machine that had no way to know the difference.
Joe Riley trusted AI over his oncologist and died of a treatable cancer. His tragedy wasn't naivety — it was earned distrust, amplified by a machine that had no way to know the difference.
They are not asking it for fun. They are asking it because the triage line puts them on hold for 45 minutes. The threat is not the technology. The threat is the system that made the technology necessary.