There has already been a death with Amazon’s new system. A man was coughing up blood, experiencing shortness of breath, and his feet were turning blue. He was advised to purchase an inhaler. An INHALER. He was not advised to go to emergency care, and when he went later, he collapsed and died in the waiting room of an emergency center. What are the regulations and consequences for AI? What are the regulations of tech giants going into healthcare?

This takeover of multiple aspects of healthcare also takes the task of helping patients out of the hands of qualified professionals and puts them in the hands of call center employees. “So in the documents that were leaked to us, there's a doctor who wrote a note saying, I don't think these call center people even realize that they're triaging patients, which is not something that they're qualified to do,” says Caroline O’Donovan, Washington Post reporter. The people in the call center had the option to forward patients to a medical professional on the phone to talk out issues, but they decided to push them to make appointments days later, putting people's lives at risk. The calls are also no longer being handled by patients’ doctors or doctors’ offices, but by a call center that has no access to the patient’s health records or charts. There are 17 symptoms those call centers were looking out for; everything else was not “red flag symptoms.” I wonder how many red flag symptoms the new AI system has? Or, more pertinently, how few?