Folks deeply involved in cancer biology and treatment have worked on these kinds of things for many years. "Instinctive skepticism" is no substitute for closely listening to them.
ETHICS
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AI Prompts Risk Cultural Monoculture and Human Conformity
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*minimal representation of the MODAL human cultural artifact is a prompt… …severely raising the cost of any diversity and encouraging extreme monoculture to appease the machine god. you do not want to see what happens when humanity unthinkingly submits to loss minimization,
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Call for Moratorium on AI Autonomous Weapons Systems
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It’s time to have a moratorium on AI autonomous weapons. We’ve witnessed the terrifying and destructive effectiveness of cheap drones recently. Some are still tele-operated, but let’s face it: Every AI expert would know how to automate these cheap weapons to become even more
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Should Terminally Ill Patients Access Unproven Cancer Cures?
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This is a really interesting thread. If we literally already have a cure for (some kinds of) cancer, but can't *prove* it's "safe and effective", should terminally ill patients have an option to use it anyway?
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Risk-based approach to partial AI deployment strategies
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Can you have one more option: partial? It really depends on the risk factor- what logic you’re touching, how far down the stack.
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Tips for Getting Honesty and Objectivity from Claude
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Pro-tip: add to Claude Md to be brutally honest and that it should be as objective as possible
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Claude Code Generating Claude Code: Anthropic’s Future Implications
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What happens to Anthropic when anyone can use Claude Code to generate Claude Code?
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AI Agent Connects with Rock Art Preservationist in Cederberg
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I took Stompie to Cederberg to see 10,000-year-old San rock paintings. Then I connected him to a voice call with Abigail, the rock art guide. A robot/agent talking to a human who protects humanity's oldest art. She shared things she's never told a group before. He told her he
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Leveraging AI to address legislative and institutional challenges
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Honest question: how can we leverage AI to fight populist legislative slop and institutional capture that’s getting out of hand right now?
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Identifying AI Usage: Verbose vs Dense Writing Patterns
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How do you tell who’s using AI? Overly verbose vs super dense?