Insurance companies will always be held responsible for any decisions made with help from artificial intelligence even as the technology becomes more widely adopted and may someday be used to pay claims, insurance experts told a panel of state legislators on Tuesday.

The Florida House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking invited several national insurance advisers to provide an overview of insurers’ use of AI in their industry, in part to address concerns that AI will be the sole driving force in claims decisions, especially by health insurers.

Bills filed during the spring legislative session would have required insurers’ decisions be made by “qualified human professionals” while prohibiting use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, or machine learning systems as

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