Quibble, surgeons are not the ones doing this. Surgeons' schedules are generally permanently full. They do not typically deny people lifesaving medicine, on the contrary they spend all of their time providing lifesaving medicine.

The administrators who create the schedule for the surgeons, are the one denying lifesaving care to people.

Yeah, it's the natural empathy myth. Somebody totally would kill somebody else for some reason. It's not inherent to being human that you're unable to be steely-hearted and carry out a range of actions we might classify as "mean" - and those mean actions can have reasons behind them.

So, OK, abdication of responsibility to a collective is a thing. Just following orders. So what? Not relevant to AGI.

Oh wait, this is about "superintelligence", whatever that is. All bets are off, then.

And lenders and insurers.