00:00They put the device on her grandma's finger because she wasn't feeling well.
00:04It pricked her skin, took a drop of blood, and scanned her fingerprint.
00:08Then it gave a number, 9.8.
00:12This was bad.
00:13You see, elderly people would take this new test.
00:17The lower numbers meant that you would die peacefully,
00:20maybe in your sleep years from now.
00:23But the high numbers, those meant a long, hard decline.
00:27So a pill was offered to those with high numbers.
00:31You would take it and pass peacefully in your sleep, skipping the years of anguish.
00:37They gave one to her grandma.
00:39Every night she'd sit at the kitchen table, pill in one hand, tea in the other.
00:44But she couldn't bring herself to take it.
00:47She felt okay.
00:49And over the next six months, her granddaughter noticed that nothing happened.
00:53So she started to do some research.
00:55She found some hidden files on the AI behind this test.
01:00She learned it had been altered.
01:02It wasn't predicting suffering.
01:05Insurance companies reprogrammed the AI to flag patients who would cost too much money as they aged.
01:13They weren't treating patients.
01:15They were eliminating expenses.
01:17She printed off her research and sped to her grandma's house to show her.
01:22But she couldn't find her.
01:23That's what made her Owng of Hellman about the AI part.
01:26And what became the practical topic.
01:28After this test, she was told we were able to