{"id":232357,"date":"2026-06-16T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T04:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T08:40:13","slug":"the-va-and-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The VA and Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificifial-intelligence\/\">The VA and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificifial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificifial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 02:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"smallwarsjournal.com\">smallwarsjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is guided by President Lincoln&#8217;s promise to care for those who have fought for the country.<\/li>\n<li>The complexity of the VA&#8217;s bureaucratic process sometimes overlooks the human element of veteran care.<\/li>\n<li>The VA proposed an amendment that would have improperly evaluated medication&#8217;s effects on veterans, but retracted it after significant public backlash.<\/li>\n<li>The VA is now employing AI to screen Disability Benefits Questionnaires, a move criticized for treating veterans with undue suspicion.<\/li>\n<li>AI systems lack human insight and can erroneously flag claims intended to get specialized rural care as suspicious.<\/li>\n<li>The root issue is the overly convoluted claims process, which fosters reliance on fraudulent services.<\/li>\n<li>The FRAUD in VA Disability Exams Act aims to prevent benefits from being unjustly taken away based on AI flags without a criminal conviction.<\/li>\n<li>The focus must return to simplifying the claims process and ensuring human oversight in claim processing before any veteran\u2019s benefits are affected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VA and Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/2026\/06\/16\/the-va-and-artificifial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-16 02:37:00 Source Domain: smallwarsjournal.com The Department&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-492562971-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-232357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232359,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232357\/revisions\/232359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}