AI Health Advice

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A new study found that AI "health advice from was frequently wrong. However, a closer look at the results tell a different story. "About half the time, mistakes appeared to be the result of user error. Participants didn’t enter enough information or the most relevant symptoms. By contrast, when researchers entered the full medical scenario directly into the chatbots, they correctly diagnosed the problem 94 percent of the time." -New York Times

Using AI to Write an Apology to the Court

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A judge in New Zealand questioned the remorse of a defendant who had used A.I. to write apologies to victims and the court. Increasingly, people are outsourcing many tasks to machines, including writing apologies, eulogies and wedding vows, perhaps saving precious time but also inviting the ire of some of their fellow humans. People apparently believe that certain activities should take work in order to seem genuine. -New York Times

4 Steps When Addressing Inappropriate Behavior

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When someone keeps repeating inappropriate behavior, try the DESC approach.  The four steps are describe, express, specify, and consequences.

1. Describe the objectionable behavior.

2. Express your feelings.

3. Specify what action you want to see.

4. Tell the person the consequences if there is no change in behavior.

12 Recent Articles about AI & Audio/Video

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“I made a mistake”

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Though agentic tools often excel at complicated work, such as synthesizing unfathomable reams of text, they struggle to do something as simple as copy and paste text from Google Docs into Substack. And because they are so powerful, they can also be dangerous: When one venture capitalist recently asked Claude Cowork—Anthropic’s new, more accessible agentic tool—for help organizing his wife’s desktop, the bot subsequently deleted 15 years of family photos. “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important,” the bot told him. “I made a mistake.” -The Atlantic

25 Recent Articles about the Business of Running an AI Company

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AI is advancing too quickly for research to keep up – Axios 

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows – CNBC

Chinese AI models push pro-China views – Axios

Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation - Axios

A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions - MIT Tech Review  

Anthropic has signed a multiyear deal with Atlassian Williams F1 Team, its first major sports partnership. - Axios  

Google Plans to Double Spending Amid A.I. Race – New York Times

AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning - Axios

Anthropic ‘destructively’ scanned millions of books to build Claude - The Washington Post

Meta Overshadows Microsoft by Showing AI Payoff in Ad Business – Wall Street Journal

In the AI boom, this energy company is suddenly flying high - Axios

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books - The Washington Post

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley - The New York Times  

Intel Shares Slide as Costs Pile Up in Bid to Meet AI Demand – Wall Street Journal

Are we in an AI bubble? Economists share the clues to look for – NPR  

What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies: They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers – The Verge

The AI race is creating a new world order – Rest of World  

Apple Teams Up With Google for A.I. in Its Products - The New York Times

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Google is adding an "AI Inbox" to Gmail - Axios 

How to kill a rogue AI Shutting off the internet? Detonating a nuke in space? None of the options are very appealing. – Vox

If U.S.-China AI Rivalry Were Football, the Score Would Be 24-18 - Wall Street Journal 

Meta Buys AI Startup with Chinese roots for More Than $2 Billion – Wall Street Journal

LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting – EpochAI

US to mandate AI vendors measure political bias for federal sales – Reuters

What we really believe

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Every person expects to be treated as a person. The proof that he really believes there are some unconditional values is that he expects his freedom and dignity to be respected. In his actions, he may not always respect others, but in his reactions, he proves that he always expects others to respect his freedom and dignity. Hence, human expectations are the key to what a man believes to be absolute.

Norman Geisler, Options in Contemporary Christian Ethics

How AI might slow scientific progress

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“One of my growing concerns is that A.I. could inadvertently slow scientific progress. The theoretical physicist Max Planck is often credited with saying that “science advances one funeral at a time.” I am mindful that I may be quite wrong in my viewpoints. However, if my opinion becomes encoded into A.I. systems and persists indefinitely, will it hinder the evolution of new scientific ideas?” - Tamara Kolda, who runs MathSci.ai, a consultancy in the San Francisco Bay Area, quoted in the New York Times

AI Definitions: Imitation Learning

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Imitation Learning – This is a popular method for training robots, along with reinforced learning. The robots learn by watching humans or by being given data on other robots which are being operated by humans. Out of fashion for decades, it has recently come back into favor in robotics because of AI. The downside to this technique is the need for large amounts of data for the robots to imitate new behaviors.

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18 Recent Articles about the Impact of AI on Health Care

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Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows – New York Times

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts – Reuters

ChatGPT can analyze Apple Watch health data. Here’s how a doctor views it. - The Washington Post

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records – Stat News

A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? – New York Times

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk – The Guardian

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor. – MSN

Institutions are missing AI’s real potential for drug discovery – Semafor

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection - MIT News

Your next primary care doctor could be online only, accessed through an AI tool – NPR

What are the limits to biomedical research acceleration through general-purpose AI? – Nature

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records – The Verge

Utah permits nation's first AI drug prescriptions – Axios

Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t – Wall Street Journal

Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress? - New York Times

40 million people turn to ChatGPT for health care - Axios

Researchers create a machine learning model “to distinguish paper mill publications from genuine cancer research articles.”- The BMJ

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss - New York Times

AI Definitions: OpenClaw AI

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OpenClaw AI – This open-source artificial-intelligence agent is designed to assist users with everyday tasks, such as reading and sorting email, scheduling calendar events, and making purchases. Text it on a variety of platforms and it will remember your messages and preferences, send you reminders and automate tasks for you. While its creator promises a capable assistant, critics warn it is not a polished, enterprise-ready product but a rough outline of a tool with significant security concerns, especially since it is still at work after users have logged off. OpenClaw was released as open-source software on the platform GitHub in November of 2025 under the name Clawdbot, which was briefly changed to Moltbot.

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AI Definitions: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

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GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) – Also known as “answer engine optimization” (AEO), this is the process of optimizing content to boost its visibility in AI-driven search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google AI). While SEO helps brands increase visibility on search engines (Google, Microsoft Bing), GEO is all about how brands appear on AI-driven platforms. There is overlap between the goals of GEO and traditional SEO. Both use keywords and prioritize engaging content as well as conversational queries and contextual phrasing. Both consider how fast a website loads, mobile friendliness, and prefer technically sound website. However, while SEO is concerned with metatags and links in response to user queries, GEO is about quick, direct responses from synthesizes content out of multiple sources.

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He led safeguarding at a major AI company. His next career move will surprise you.

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Mrinank Sharma, who had led Anthropic’s safeguards research team since its launch last year, shared his resignation letter in a post on X Monday morning, which quickly garnered attention and has been viewed 1 million times. In his letter, Sharma said the “world is in peril,” not just from AI, but a “whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.” After leaving Anthropic, Sharma said he may pursue a poetry degree and “devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” adding he wants to “contribute in a way that feels fully in my integrity.”

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