Authored by Senator Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown), SB 815 (2025) seeks to limit the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in utilization review processes within health benefit plans in Texas. The bill’s primary goal is to prevent AI-based algorithms from being the sole determinant in decisions to deny, delay, or modify healthcare services based on medical necessity or appropriateness. The bill mandates that only physicians or licensed healthcare providers can make these determinations, ensuring that human judgment remains central to such decisions.
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You Should Break Up with Your AI Boyfriend
You should break up with your boyfriend. Not your real, human boyfriend—your AI boyfriend. Recent media coverage and cultural moments have brought renewed attention to how people are forming relationships with artificial intelligence, and how we ought to think about these rapidly developing technologies. A recent Prime Video series, “Scarpetta,” offers a striking fictional example....
March 24, 2026