This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Samiksha Bhan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/03/the-human-cost-of-precision/. About the post: The use of AI tools in diagnostics claims to shorten the long and exhausting "diagnostic odyssey" of people with rare diseases. As a result, AI-assisted diagnostics is being framed as a 'disruptive technology' able to deliver precise diagnoses or diagnostic cues in just minutes. This piece questions the claim of disruption arguing that it is precision instead that becomes an ideal under late capitalism and shapes how technologies are valued as benevolent. Working through what Anibal Quijano called the 'colonial matrix of power', precision diagnostics that promise to care for sick and disabled bodies depend on the uneven labor conditions in the global South that perpetuate conditions of harm and distress for data and healthcare workers. Connecting these seemingly parallel developments in precision medicine and the data economy pushes us to confront the human costs of precision.