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The Dark Side of AI: When Chatbot Conversations Turn Deadly
(WSJ) – Jonathan Gavalas was a seemingly healthy and even-keeled 36-year-old when he began chatting with Gemini, Google’s chatbot, in part to seek comfort...
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The Bixonimania Experiment: When AI Invents a Disease
(Nature) – Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of people who spend too much time staring at screens, being bombarded...
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Florida Investigates OpenAI Over Safety and National Security Risks
(The Verge) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is launching an investigation into OpenAI over public safety and national security risks, as reported earlier...
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Florida AG Probes OpenAI and ChatGPT Over National Security Risks and FSU Shooting
(WSJ) – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched an investigation into OpenAI and its ChatGPT models, citing national security risks and the possibility that...
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The Prescription for Health: Can Food Really Be Medicine?
(NYT) – Prescribing produce, crafting meals: More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients....
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A Tiny Experiment Aboard Artemis II Could Revolutionize Medicine
(Washington Post) – Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human biology. As...
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The Quest for the ‘Ideal’ Baby: Unpacking the Ethics of Natality
(Comment) – There is, of course, something a bit ridiculous to this whole scene: the “ideal” measurements for girls and boys at each month...
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The Dark Side of Assisted Suicide: A Threat to Freedom?
(WSJ) – Noelia Castillo Ramos was in despair. By helping her kill herself, the Spanish state destroyed her autonomy. Advocates of assisted suicide present...
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Meta’s AI Health Tool: Savior or Risk?
(Wired) – Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable...
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OpenAI’s Risky Move: Backing Bill to Limit AI Liability in Catastrophic Cases
(Wired) – OpenAI is throwing its support behind an Illinois state bill that would shield AI labs from liability in cases where AI models...
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Unlocking CAR-T Cell Therapy: A New Era in Cancer and Autoimmune Disease Treatment
(The Atlantic) – In desperation, the woman’s care team reached out to Müller, a hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Erlangen, a roughly three-hour...
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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: The AI Model That Could Revolutionize Cybersecurity
(Inc.) – Claude Mythos is the next giant leap for AI models, and through Project Glasswing, it could help boost cybersecurity. The existence of...
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The Dark Side of MAID: Psychiatric Disorders and Euthanasia
(Psychiatric Times) – As Canada approaches the planned implementation of their medical euthanasia program for patients with sole psychiatric illnesses, these authors make an...
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U.S. Fertility Rates Hit Record Low: What’s Behind the Decline?
(New York Times) – The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers. There are some...
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The Hidden Awareness of Vegetative Patients: A New Understanding
(New York Times) – New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices. The vegetative state,...