What Does a Chatbot Know About Eating Disorders? Users of a Help Line Are About to Find Out
Companies turn to artificial intelligence as a possible solution for a mental health crisis.
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Edward Snowden describes how surveillace tools have become more powerful in the past decade
Read more...‘His Peers Thought He Was a Madman.’ The Weird, Wonderful History of Ice
How ice became an industry.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...AI May Be on Its Way to Your Doctor’s Office, But It’s Not Ready to See Patients
The technology misses life-threatening conditions, lacks privacy protections, and tends to “hallucinate,” but adopting the it could make the healthcare industry billions.
Read more...What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground
A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.
Read more...We Can Use AI in the Economy but Only If We Are Willing To Tax Capital More Heavily
What future is there for labor with AI?
Read more...The U.S. Needs To Double The Size Of Its Energy Grid
Will the state of the US grid constrain the conversion to electric vehicles and other green devices?
Read more...The Collapse in Operational Capabilities in the West and Some Knock-On Effects
Why does the West seem increasingly unable to get out of its own underwear?
Read more...It’s Bad Enough EHRs Cause Clinician Burnout. It’s Even Worse They Are Being Used by Hospitals and Defense Lawyers To Bury Mistakes Through Discovery Fraud and Information Blocking
How hospital systems are using electronic health records (EHRs) to hide patient records during discovery in malpractice and other lawsuits.
Read more...Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Alzheimer’s
Alert reader Adam1 gets an AI to fake a citation!
Read more...Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid
Lambert chats with two AIs about Covid’s airborne transmission.
Read more...Banning TikTok Could Weaken Personal Cybersecurity
Banning TikTok would be a messy business….and probably not technologically enforceable.
Read more...Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy
One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.
Read more...Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
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