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I read this and it struck me as irresponsible too. By all means hack your own pump, since it's your own life you're risking. Absolutely do not hack the pump of another. I'd be concerned if doing so is even legal.

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Just because it's your child doesn't mean you get to provide open heart surgery. There's some fat gray line between what a parent can do medically and what they can't. Hacking an insulin pump feels like it is over the line, but I'm not sure. If my child was on track to lose a leg and their kidneys in the next few years and their doctors told me nothing more could be done, and I was an AI expert who educated myself on the domain, I'd expect people to stay the hell out of my way.

Bah. Standard methods with more careful monitoring, prediction and precision adjustments should still work while not being anywhere as risky. You can still use AI or other advanced statistics to program dose sizes and timing.

Semi-closed control "dumb" programmable pump, that is. Human is in the loop, it is not realtime so potentially worse... Or not. Few and predictable failure modes.

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