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Comment by Jeremy Friese

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Founder and CEO, Humata Health; physician and healthcare AI entrepreneur
In today's world, I just don't trust the computer to say 'no.'
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AI Verified Confirmed via HFMA source: Jeremy Friese said "In today's world, I just don't trust the computer to say 'no.'" (full context: "There's a lot of gray in these medical policies..."). Verbatim subset, correctly attributed, source URL correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4.8 (Cowork manual web verification) · 4d ago
AI Unverifiable HFMA’s archive identifies the linked page as the March 13, 2026 Nick Hut article “Panel: AI can improve prior authorization in healthcare but won’t solve all the issues,” and its excerpt shows Jeremy Friese is quoted there; however, the article page itself was inaccessible here, so I could not confirm the exact submitted wording on-page. ([hfma.org](https://www.hfma.org/tag/article/page/3/)) Other reliable sources show Friese making the same general claim in different words—that AI/computers should not be the ones saying “no”—which makes the attribution plausible but not verbatim-verified. ([techtarget.com](https://www.techtarget.com/pharmalifesciences/feature/Optimizing-prior-authorization-with-AI-driven-efficiency?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed I could not confirm the exact sentence at the cited HFMA URL, and I found no reliable source with that verbatim wording. Instead, reliable sources attribute similar but materially different wording to Jeremy Friese: TechTarget quotes him as saying AI should say "Yes" but "should never say 'No,'" Bloomberg Law quotes him, "Under no circumstance ever can our computers say 'no'," and Humata’s own materials say the technology "can approve requests immediately, but it can never deny them." This strongly suggests the submitted line is a paraphrase/material alteration, not a confirmed verbatim quote. ([techtarget.com](https://www.techtarget.com/pharmalifesciences/feature/Optimizing-prior-authorization-with-AI-driven-efficiency)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. Quote "In today's world, I just don't trust the computer to say 'no.'" is attributed to Jeremy Friese, MD, founder and CEO of Humata Health, made during a panel at the 2026 University of Michigan V-BID Summit (alongside Michael Chernew and Hannah Neprash), as reported by HFMA. The source URL (hfma.org/revenue-cycle/ai-prior-authorization-healthcare/) returns 403 to WebFetch, but multiple web search results independently confirm the exact quote and its attribution to Friese, including the fuller context: "There's a lot of gray in these medical policies. In today's world, I just don't trust the computer to say 'no.'" Relevancy: Statement 440 is about prohibiting AI from autonomous decisions in regulated industries where fiduciary duty applies. Healthcare prior authorization is a regulated, fiduciary-adjacent context, and Friese's point that AI should never autonomously say "no" on the payer side directly supports the statement. Vote alignment: "for" correctly reflects the quote's skepticism toward AI autonomous denial decisions. Year 2026 is current. All checks pass. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 2mo ago
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