AI-Fueled Health Policies Are Depriving the Needy in One of the World’s Poorest Countries

AI-fueled health policies are depriving the needy in one of the world’s poorest countries

An investigation found Kenya’s AI-driven health insurance system is overestimating poor households’ incomes, forcing many into higher premiums they cannot afford.

Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest

Exclusive: amid unrest, President William Ruto promised to give all Kenyans access to healthcare. But the algorithm favours the rich, an investigation has found An AI system used to predict how much Kenyans can afford to pay for access to healthcare, has systemically driven up costs for the poor, an investigation has found. The healthcare [...]

Error by Design: How SHA’s AI System is Failing Kenyans - The Elephant

What happens when a system designed to guarantee the poorest Kenyans access to the highest attainable standard of healthcare ends up overcharging them for health insurance, using their living conditions and lifestyle to determine premiums? #ErrorByDesign, produced by Joy Kirigia, Purity Mukami, and Gabriel Geiger as a collaboration between Africa Uncensored, Lighthouse Reports, and The Guardian, investigates how SHA’s AI algorithm is overchargin…

Hiding Behind AI: How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest

By Purity Mukami, Joy Kirigia, Gabriel Geiger, Tomas Statius, Naipanoi Lepapa SHA’s AI system for predicting income was guaranteed to overestimate the earnings of the poorest and underestimate the earnings of the richest. This meant that the poorest would pay more than they should for healthcare, while the wealthiest paid less. A previously unseen report […] The post Hiding Behind AI: How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest app…

The Guardian: Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest

The Guardian: Flaws in Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest. “Through months of investigation, reporters at Africa Uncensored, in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports and the Guardian, were able to obtain key details of this system and audit how it worked. The findings reveal how, from the start, it was systematically overcharging the poorest Kenyans, overestimating their incomes, while undercharging the wealthiest …