AI Surveillance Could Be Harming Your Health. Here’s How.
Darren Orf's Popular Mechanics article reports on a New England Journal of Medicine perspective in which experts from Massachusetts General, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard argue that AI-enabled mass surveillance can harm health, citing anticipatory stress, frightened patients avoiding clinics, and surveillance data shaping access to insurance, housing, and jobs. The article also notes Palantir's ICE tools, HIPAA's gaps, state data-privacy laws, and the authors' warning that AI surveillance could become a driver of health inequities without stronger protections.
