Timpani<\/a>, a scheduling app. HCA Healthcare is the largest for-profit hospital operator in the United States, according to a press release by National Nurses United. It also operates St. David’s hospitals and health centers in Central Texas.<\/p>\n\u201cTimpani is used for making patient assignments, staffing, and to the detriment of the nurses, sometimes they short-staff them,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cAnd those decisions should be made by people. Those should be human decisions, not an artificial intelligence machine making the decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Protesters also put stickers and posters with the words \u201cPalantir Out!\u201d on the front of the 8VC building.<\/p>\n
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A sticker that reads \u201cPalantir Out!\u201d in the shape of a bandage on a sign for 8VC offices on South Congress Avenue.<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Austin, was there urging the crowd to continue to protest AI encroachment in healthcare and society.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to block this ridiculous AI oligarchy from Palantir,\u201d Casar said, addressing the crowd of protesters. \u201cBoth for ourselves but also for those babies, for our jobs, but also for future jobs. Because we already live in an era of mass inequality, but these AI billionaires want to put that oligarchy on steroids. They want a few billionaires to become trillionaires and for everybody else to get screwed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jake Medwell, a co-founder of 8VC, came out from the firm’s office after the protest speeches.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to protest, you should do your research, right?\u201d Medwell said. \u201cYou should know that 8VC has nothing to do with Palantir, except for one of my partners [who] happened to start it years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Support for KUT’s reporting on health news comes from St. David\u2019s Foundation<\/a>. Sponsors do not influence KUT’s editorial decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of protesters gathered near Riverside Drive and South Congress Avenue to protest the software, data integration and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145854,132,134,133,10533,2244,1724,113633,60127,104066,27],"class_list":["post-418723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-8vc","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-tx","tag-healthcare","tag-immigration","tag-joe-lonsdale","tag-palantir","tag-st-davids","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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