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So, the Mayo Clinic, widely known as the World's Best Hospital, is being sued for hiding their AI's 67% error rate at the expense of their patients. Lawsuit claims the Mayo Clinic's use of AI is butchering patient care. If people care about the notion that AI has to be handled in a responsible manner, this is a case that should matter to you. Mayo Clinic whistleblower says staff hid AI tool's 67% error rate, then pushed her out. In a new civil suit, former Mayo Clinic research director and AI compliance lead Traci Tamiko Eto alleges that the globally recognized hospital retaliated against her for blowing the whistle on its disastrous implementations of AI health tools. The lawsuit is coming from the clinic's former research director and AI compliance lead, who they fired and tried to silence for blowing the whistle on this issue. And according to the lawsuit, the team working on MAYA deleted unflattering test results, mischaracterized the tool's abilities, and made decisions that put data security in jeopardy. Tucked inside her ten separate whistleblower complaints, MPR notes, is the allegation that the team working on MAYA knew the tool had an error rate as high as 67 percent. Eto alleges that instead of flagging that horrifying number, MAYA staffers tried to hide it. And when the compliance lead who's bringing the lawsuit would flag these issues and bring it to her supervisors, they would shut her down and insist that having the de-identification process revisited by the review board would jeopardize the pace on ongoing research projects, which in turn would compromise Mayo's competitive advantage. Eto alleged in the lawsuit her supervisor did not challenge the substance of her concerns but insisted that having the de-identification process revisited by the review board would jeopardize the pace on ongoing research projects, which in turn would compromise Mayo's competitive advantage. Eto said she was told in March 2025 she was a poor cultural fit and could either resign as research director with her supervisor's blessing or face the prospect of consequences in her personnel file that would render her unemployable at Mayo and would impede her career outside the institution. So of course, now she's carrying out the lawsuit because there's clearly no way to fix the issue from the inside. Hospitals are rapidly adopting AI for tasks ranging from research and patient communication to note-taking and administrative support. If an AI system is inaccurate, poorly tested, or deployed without proper oversight, the consequences can be serious, especially in health care, where incorrect information can influence care decisions or undermine trust. This right here is a major problem, obviously. But it's worse than any other AI issue or scandal. This is the number one hospital in the world, and they are acting the exact same as an AI startup. I mean, it's the same exact pattern. They're hiding the negatives, making up stuff about the capabilities, silencing the truth-tellers, and they're ignoring blatant violations to keep their competitive advantage. And you know, it's only because of how we're handling it. Because we have a hyper greed problem in America. You know how China doesn't have this problem? You notice how they have better AI and less data centers than us? It's because they don't have the hyper greed problem that we do. But because of our end stage capitalism system, our AI bubble can't pop fast enough. Hide the bad and make up good stuff. The only difference here, and the reason why it's such a big problem, is because this is a hospital. There are patients' lives and health on the line. And also, it's the number one hospital in the world, which means that it's likely happening everywhere else. For doctors to be taking part of this and completely complicit in this, it's just absurd. And it's all in the name of greed. I mean, AI is seriously destroying everything. And you know, it's only because of how we're handling it. Because we have a hyper greed problem in America.