Intelligence doesn't come cheap as AI drives up costs for the NSA, hospitals, and insurers

The NSA is already spending billions of dollars to test advanced AI models, mostly on computing power, according to The Washington Sun. Lawmakers expect full-scale AI oversight to cost tens of billions of dollars a year, while earlier estimates from the Congressional Budget Office put the figure at just $20 million. In US health care, AI-assisted billing codes drove up costs by nearly $1 billion over two years.