Businesses today... are already making decisions to disperse.
After all, as Google pointed out, search engines are programmed to gather, assess and ultimately rank sites based on their relevance to a given query — that is, they are already making decisions for us.
"Virginia and other states are already spending huge sums to implement their portions of the health care act, businesses are already making decisions about whether to cut or keep employee health plans, and citizens are in limbo until the Supreme Court rules," Mr. Cuccinelli said in a statement.
I am very aware that it is already here and I am already making decisions in the cellar to respond to some of the various issues we now face.
Before they see your bullet lists and features grid, their brain is already making decisions at an emotional level based on what connections you've allowed, how you've made them feel, what messages you think are important to them and, ultimately, what experience you have created for them.
But with all that said, the overriding problem is that we are already making these decisions.
"What we find is that people planning to travel over the holidays are already making their decisions now," said Sandy Shilstone, president and chief executive at the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation.
Algorithms are already making "executive decisions" when they recommend which Uber driver you should avoid, which seller to trust on Amazon, and which news story to believe on Facebook.
The fear is exacerbated when the administration talks about funding insurance for 46 million more people in part by cutting billions in "waste" from Medicare, and fails to drive home, over and over, that insurance companies are already making those decisions, right now, all the time.
Integration of a new model of genetic counselling and testing to help direct therapy may also challenge assumptions that women who are coping with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer, and are already making multiple decisions about their treatment are not interested in, or able to cope with, additional information about their genetic risk.
"Most folks are already making the decision to have their kids in kindergarten," said Mike Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Assn., a Virginia-based group that provides legal assistance to parents who home-school their children.
