Utah became the first state to grant AI systems the authority to renew drug prescriptions. Doctors are furious. Tech companies are celebrating. Patients are somewhere in the middle, mostly confused.
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OpenAI just raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Retail investors poured in $3 billion. Nobody is asking the obvious question: what exactly are they buying?
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Every conversation you have with ChatGPT uses water. Not metaphorically — actual water, pumped through the cooling systems of the data centres running the computation, evaporated into the atmosphere and…
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The Fair Housing Act of 1968 makes it illegal to discriminate against renters on the basis of race, colour, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability. For decades, proving…
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UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the United States, was sued in 2023 for using an AI system called nH Predict to systematically deny insurance claims for elderly patients…
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OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit with a charter stating that its mission was “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” The structure was deliberate.…
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In 2021, a Facebook whistleblower named Frances Haugen leaked internal research documents showing that Facebook’s own researchers had concluded that Instagram was harmful to the mental health of teenage girls…
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The official US military position on autonomous lethal systems is that there will always be “meaningful human control” in any decision to use lethal force. This position is stated in…
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Hundreds of news articles published every day across major and mid-tier media outlets are written entirely or substantially by AI, without disclosure to readers. Not experimental articles. Not clearly labelled…
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Amazon warehouse workers are tracked from the moment they badge in to the moment they badge out. Their scan rates are monitored in real time. Their idle seconds are counted.…
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