It is a good time for moonshots. AI has reached a level where there are transformative projects that could result in huge social good, but require public R&D, consensus & transparency to pull off. Examples: universal tutors, co-scientist/replication systems, remote medical help.
HEALTHCARE AI
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AI for personalized and safer medical care
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AI can support more personalized medical care by helping doctors choose treatments based on each patient's history and needs. Better use of data can lead to safer decisions and more effective care.
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Neuralink AI gives ALS patient their voice back
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Neuralink AI Give ALS Patient Their Voice Back
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 13 juin 2026
by @Ellieinspace
#MedTech #HealthTech #TechForGood #Tech pic.twitter.com/eGKiGx31mlNeuralink AI Give ALS Patient Their Voice Back
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What Happens When AI Meets Thousands of Plasma Proteins?
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what happens when you combine thousands of plasma proteins and AI?
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Proven AI for Colonoscopy and Mammography Unused
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AI for colonoscopy and mammography are the best proven successes of medical AI, through randomized trials and real-world studies, yet they are not being used. But what is widely adapted is the unproven stuff. https://
erictopol.substack.com/p/the-paradox-
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Evaluating AI with Rubrics: Beyond Right or Wrong
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How do you evaluate an AI that writes research, diagnoses diseases, or uses tools—when “right or wrong” no longer cuts it? Researchers from Renmin University of China (Liu et al.) surveyed the emerging use of rubrics for LLMs. Rubrics are structured checklists that break down
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AI-Powered Mosquito Traps Mimic Humans to Fight Bugs Without Chemicals
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#AI-Powered Mosquito Traps Mimic Humans to Fight Bugs Without Chemicals
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 13 juin 2026
by @XHNews#EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology #Tech #TechForGood pic.twitter.com/PSdIAdjhrd#AI-Powered Mosquito Traps Mimic Humans to Fight Bugs Without Chemicals
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AI diagnosis needs prospective rigorous assessment for real-world tasks
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Yes. Widely relying on this for patient diagnosis and management w/o prospective, rigorous assessment for real world tasks until now.
As the authors point out: "scale, alignment and cross-domain reasoning may outweigh domain-specific
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New science of intelligence from neurons and AI may treat schizophrenia
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HAI Senior Fellow @SuryaGanguli is building a new science of intelligence by studying how neurons fire and AI learns — work that may have uncovered a neural mechanism with implications for treating schizophrenia.
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Frontier LLMs outperform clinical AI tools in medical evaluations
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There has been a push to use OpenEvidence AI for doctors. But this paper suggests general models are much better: “Frontier LLMs outperformed clinical AI tools in all three evaluations. Clinical AI tools performed comparably to auto-enabled Google Search AI Overview on the RCQ.”