"The healthcare system being rolled out across the country, a key electoral promise of President William Ruto, was launched in October 2024 and intended to replace Kenya's decades-old national insurance system."
"The findings reveal how, from the start, it was systematically overcharging the poorest Kenyans, overestimating their incomes, while undercharging the wealthiest by underestimating their incomes."
"That solution, which Ruto has described as AI-powered, does not rely on the recent advances in artificial intelligence which underpin large language models such as ChatGPT instead it uses a predictive machine learning algorithm."
An AI-driven healthcare system in Kenya, launched in October 2024, aimed to provide affordable access but has instead raised costs for the poor. The system, part of President William Ruto's electoral promise, uses a flawed predictive algorithm for means-testing healthcare contributions. Investigations revealed that it overestimates the incomes of low-income individuals while underestimating those of wealthier citizens. This lack of transparency has led to widespread protests and dissatisfaction among the population, contradicting the promise of universal healthcare access.
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