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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What the Vatican gets right, and wrong, about AI
The Catholic Magisterium has long illuminated the unbridgeable gulf between man and any other intelligent being. In the age of AI, its rejection of utility as the measure of human worth matters more than ever, even when its analysis falls short. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, discovered in rubbish mounds along the River Nile during the era of...
June 24, 2026