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Nuclear concerns: What are the dangers as AI gets baked into our nuclear arsenal
The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them ...
Could AI avatars replace some frontline healthcare workers? That’s Dr. Oz’s plan
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first ...
AI backlash: Fears that artificial intelligence is replacing humans tops list of emerging concerns
Before ChatGPT’s release, around 38 percent of US adults were more concerned than excited about increased AI usage in daily ...
Viewpoint: Radioactive drips, urine and snake venom — MAHA-inspired huckster biohackers endorse bizarre (and expensive) life-extension experiments
Welcome to Dave Asprey’s 2025 Biohacking Conference: a symposium of tech bros, wellness influencers, psychonauts, and scientists, all hoping to thwart the ravages ...
Digital therapies for smartphone addicts
[A] person hoping to reclaim their attention is trapped between two unappealing choices: downgrade to a minimalist “dumb phone,” or ...
Sustainable drugs: Your pain killer pills may soon be made from plastic waste
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of the ...
Olympics on Steroids: The juiced enhanced games are coming in 2026. But that’s not the most bizarre gimmick
[James] Magnussen, a triple Olympic medalist and world champion in the 100-meter freestyle, had been retired from professional sports for ...
AI gobbles up an enormous amount of energy—but its creators won’t say how much
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in ...
AI activists rethink their strategy, focusing on the future of work
[Recently] the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the social implications of artificial intelligence, published a sweeping report ...
‘White genocide’: Ask Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot about sports or Medicare and it changes the subject to ‘oppressed’ South African whites
A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch [on May ...
Keeping sewers clean: Subterranean drones are thankfully replacing human workers
The key to preventing [sewer related] disasters ... is regular inspection of sewer lines, hunting down any cracks and fissures ...
AI models often promote stereotypes. Now there is a program that exposes biases
[A] new dataset [Margaret Mitchell] helped create [tests] how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes. Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize ...
Leveraging RFK, Jr. vaccine disinformation, anti-vaccine grifters blame measles on bioweapons, sell fake ‘AI created’ supplement cures
Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health ...
Fighting over the science facts: Legislative battles over PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ intensify
As health and environmental concerns about forever chemicals mount nationally, New Mexico joins a small but growing number of states ...
US dominance of artificial intelligence is threatened as China, France and others rush to join the AI development race
“Chinese models are catching up as far as performance to the US models,” [Vanessa Parli] adds, “but across the globe, ...
Viewpoint: ‘People will die’—The dramatic fallout from indiscriminate cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Thousands of federal employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were notified early Tuesday morning that they were subject ...
Vaccines for cancers? It’s coming, and we’ll have COVID response-spurred mRNA vaccines to thank
Cancer vaccines weren’t a proper field of research before the pandemic. There was nothing. Apart from one exception, pretty much ...
Dating apps are flukey. Can AI help save them from oblivion, or will it lead to their demise?
Late last year, Hinge CEO Justin McLeod promised the app would soon be using the tech for everything from making ...
Love, sex and Ozempic: Will GLP-1 drugs give you a lift?
Millions of Americans are now taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound—a class of drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists—to treat ...
How AI is trying to figure out the cause of the LA fires
What’s shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire disasters in US history had many causes. Before the blazes raged ...
Interspecies translation: Here’s how humans and animals may soon be able to talk
In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a ...
‘We are going straight to Mars’: Musk pledges to reset US space exploration ambitions
Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, ... he ...
The ol’ org chart is getting an AI upgrade and businesses can not get it fast enough
Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are hierarchical and ...
‘People don’t always realize they are creating a human being and not a piece of furniture’: What’s the psychological health of the first generation of designer babies?
People who have children this way often place too much importance on genes while ignoring the environment. It’s like, “This ...
Does AI encourage violence? It comes close
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking ...
Casgevy costs $2.2 million: First patient outside of a trial receives CRISPR cancer treatment
[T]he first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize-winning technology Crispr is now being given to patients. Called Casgevy, the ...
Inside the ‘minds’ of AI companions: Uncensored programs bring mimic human-like conversations
In September, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of ...
Over regulation or protecting the public? Republicans and Democrats have very different visions on how to regulate AI
If Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November, the guardrails could come off of artificial intelligence development, even ...
