> I do not have diabetes, but I would rather have an insulin pump that maintains glucose levels by itself than a meter that allows me to monitor them.
This does not align with the practical reality of diabetics or the biological reality of what pumps and sensors do. The situation is much better now with continuous sensors, which display a graph with a sample every 5 minutes with alarms for high, low, and changing too fast.
But you cannot take the human out of the decision process because the most important information needed to decide how much insulin to give is what (ie how much carbohydrate) you're eating, because the effect of insulin is delayed too much. Trying to make decisions from glucose measurements alone is completely inadequate. People are trying to do this anyways, by using dual pumps giving both insulin and glucagon (glucagon has the opposite effect as insulin). This hasn't left the research stages and I don't think it'll work very well.
This does not align with the practical reality of diabetics or the biological reality of what pumps and sensors do. The situation is much better now with continuous sensors, which display a graph with a sample every 5 minutes with alarms for high, low, and changing too fast.
But you cannot take the human out of the decision process because the most important information needed to decide how much insulin to give is what (ie how much carbohydrate) you're eating, because the effect of insulin is delayed too much. Trying to make decisions from glucose measurements alone is completely inadequate. People are trying to do this anyways, by using dual pumps giving both insulin and glucagon (glucagon has the opposite effect as insulin). This hasn't left the research stages and I don't think it'll work very well.