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The Ethics of Automating Therapy
The mental health crisis and loneliness epidemic have sparked a growing interest in leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots as a potential solution. This report examines the benefits and risks of incorporating chatbots in mental [...]
Can AI Answer Your Questions Better Than Your Doctor?
Already, a rapidly growing list of medical applications of AI includes drafting doctor's notes and suggesting diagnose. How could even the most advanced machine outperform a physician in demonstrating this important and particularly human virtue? Read More!
Bioethics of AI: The Intersection of AI and Medicine
Call for Applications: "Bioethics of AI: The Intersection of AI and Medicine” Online Winter School December 16-21, 2024 Bioethics Education International (BEI) invites participants (students and professionals) across the globe to attend the event online. [...]
New Covid-19 Subvariant Could Lead to a Surge in Cases
A new Covid-19 variant has been discovered in Germany and could lead to global surges in cases. Read more!
Artificial Doctoring: Therapeutic Relationship in the Evolving AI Health Landscape
anRespect for patient autonomy and data privacy are generally accepted as important bioethical values. As industrialized countries embrace expanding forms of personal and health monitoring, questions abound about how AI may alter people’s access to [...]
Healthcare labor shortage predicted by 2028, with uneven state impacts: report
An aging population with heightened care needs and lagging labor trends will create a shortage of over 100,000 critical healthcare workers around the close of the decade, according to a recent study from consultancy Mercer. Read more!
How AI Threatens Democracy
We, as human societies have the responsibility to address the harm AI could inflict on us. We also have the technological opportunity to harness AI to enhance our democracy in a way that strengthens our [...]
Trustworthy AI, Bioethics, and the Rules-Based International Order
Although it is not widely noted, the notion of “trustworthy AI” presupposes some ethical standards that are rooted in the concept of liberal democracy. The rules-based international order that was established after World War II [...]
Bioethics of AI: The Intersection of AI and Medicine
Looking for a bioethics educational opportunity? Bioethics Education International (BEI) is now accepting applications for their online winter school. Bioethics of AI: The Intersection of AI and Medicine Dec 16- 21. Scholarship Deadline: Sept 15
The Ethics of Automated Warfare and Artificial Intelligence
The most complex international governance challenges surrounding AI today involve its defense and security applications — from killer swarms of drones to the computer-assisted enhancement of military command-and-control processes. Read more.
U.S. Sees Over 1,000 New COVID-19 Deaths in a Week
BREAKING: U.S. Sees Over 1,000 New COVID-19 Deaths in a Week The United States has reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 deaths this week, the highest weekly death toll since March, according to BNO News. [...]
Gaza: First polio case confirmed in war-shattered enclave
The UN health agency has confirmed via genomic sequencing that a young girl's infection was linked to the poliovirus type 2 variant, detected in environmental samples collected in June from Gaza wastewater. Read more.
The Humanoid Revolution: 1 Robot to Every 3 Humans?
The movie I, Robot portrayed a future set in 2035 where there was 1 robot to every 3 humans - humanoids in every home and workspace, even on the streets. Breakthroughs as of this August [...]
NIH scientists develop AI tool to predict how cancer patients will respond to immunotherapy
Researchers at the NIH have developed an artificial AI tool that uses data, such as that from a simple blood test, to predict whether someone’s cancer will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors, an immunotherapy drug [...]
Can AI Improve Democracy?
Liberal and social democracy are in crisis. Democracy has always been in some crisis over the last century, but this time is different. Democracy is a very recent experiment in human governance and may be [...]
AI-powered Quantification Could Accelerate Trial Enrollment
AI-assisted scoring recategorized 18% of cases from the ‘treatment ineligible’ PD-L1 negative group to PD-L1 positive group, allowing more people to be included in trials that could benefit them. Read more
Artificial intelligence is helping revolutionize healthcare as we know it
Rooted in the simulation of human intelligence by computer systems and machines, AI has the potential to transform how humans learn, work and interact with one another in every aspect of life. It’s also primed [...]
Africa CDC Declares Mpox Outbreak a Public Health Emergency
The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, reporting the move is a “clarion call for action”. Read more
More than half of US states reporting ‘very high’ COVID activity levels: CDC
More than half of U.S. states are reporting "very high" levels of COVID activity as the virus continues to spread and increase in many parts of the country, according to the latest wastewater data from the Centers [...]
Top 7 A.I. Examples in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic idea. It's already here, and it has turned out to be a powerful, disruptive force in healthcare fueling some of the most innovative diagnostic tools of today. Read more
Bioethics Must Address War as a Public Health Crisis
For most of human history, war has been a major cause of injury and death worldwide, causing harms well beyond the battlefield. Today’s wars kill far more civilians than soldiers. The Hastings Center provides an in depth look [...]
I hung out with a humanoid robot. She seemed flattered and eager to please.
As interest in humanoid robots grows, researchers and manufacturers are investing heavily in their development. Jyoti Mann describes his up close encounter with a cutting edge humanoid robot named Ameca. Read more!
Technology in a Turbulent World
In the Davos session, 'Technology in a Turbulent World,' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman comments on the future direction of AI. He predicts that AI will increase productivity, be able to explain reasoning, among other things. Read [...]
Should we bring generative AI into the classroom?
What happens when generative AI is used to design a course? Find out what happens when Andrew Maynard, a professor at the Arizona State University, did just that. Read more!
Where docs beat AI: Showing their work
The National Institutes of Health and Weill Cornell Medicine researchers compared the performance of physicians and AI models using 207 clinical "quizzes." While the AI model scored higher on the closed-book test, doctors scored higher [...]