Bioethics Education
The Biophysical World Inside a Jam-Packed Cell
(Quanta Magazine) – Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals. Over the past...
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AI uncovers the hidden genetic control centers driving Alzheimer’s
(Science Daily) – Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s...
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F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
(New York Times) – Moderna held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its...
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The Atlantic’s essay about measles was gut-wrenching. Some readers feel deceived.
(Washington Post) – Some critics and physicians said Elizabeth Bruenig’s second-person account of a mother confronting a child’s death from measles felt misleading once...
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A New Concern About Weight Loss Drugs: What if They Work Too Well?
(New York Times) – Some patients in a clinical trial of one new drug lost so much weight that they became concerned and dropped...
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
(NPR) – “So I’m standing here, and then the sun sets,” she recalled. After another chilly half an hour, she gave up and returned...
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The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work
(Wired) – WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: “People would...
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Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
(NPR) – Dr. Mehmet Oz is pitching a controversial fix for America’s rural health care crisis: artificial intelligence. “There’s no question about it —...
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Inside the New York City Date Night for AI Lovers
(Wired) – EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help in making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”...
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Surrogacy shock: Las Vegas couple fights international surrogacy nightmare after DNA revelation
(ABC13) – Aymeric and Naiah Monello-Fuentes contracted with Miracle Surrogacy only to discover the baby they’re raising isn’t who they expected. Aymeric and Naiah...
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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews
(The Guardian) – Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice Google is putting people at...
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ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.
(MIT Technology Review) – Patrick Darling used a music tool from ElevenLabs to perform a song with his former bandmates. Darling’s last stage performance...
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Brace Yourself for the AI Tsunami
(WSJ) – Inventors and executives are warning of widespread consequences that they don’t begin to understand. In the end you wonder of the creators:...
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Anthropic’s Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’
(New York Times) – Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions in the near term for artificial intelligence. Are the lords...
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On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering
(Public Discourse) – So, all in all, a propitious time to reflect on Sen. Ben Sasse’s announcement, in December of last year, that he...