And today's @latimes coverage, by @niamh_ordner https://
latimes.com/science/story/
2025-07-06/nih-budget-cuts-threaten-the-future-of-medical-research-and-young-scientists
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NIH Budget Cuts Threaten Medical Research and Young Scientists
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US Biomedical Research Faces Massive Funding Cuts
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Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States https://
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AI Absent from Presidential Debate: A Democratic Risk
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AI should be at the heart of the presidential debate. Yet everyone is looking elsewhere. Candidates who do not understand AI deserve neither our respect nor our vote.
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Web’s Promise: Universal Access Failed to Bridge Divides
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It really is not what most people who was working on building the early web in the late 1990s were expecting. Universal access to information was going to transform everything, creating widespread learning and bridging divides. It really is shocking how much that didn't happen.
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Why AI and Information Access Don’t Fix Misinformation
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X (and other social media sites) make our 1990s optimism about the Information Age seem silly. Even with all of the world's information a click away (& a free AI that can help explain that information in a personalized way), half-mangled anecdotes with no source win every time.
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General Purpose Technologies: Unpredictable Impacts on Society
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I think it should be obvious, but worth repeating that General Purpose Technologies have many effects, good and bad, that are not predictable to the technology's creators and which impact culture, society, and the economy in complex ways that are impossible to fully anticipate.
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Building Better Systems Through AI and Automation
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Make the world a better system, not just a better place.
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AI Development Outpaces Policy and Ethics Planning
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AI Could Reshape Humanity – And We Have No Plan For It AI’s development is accelerating faster than policy and ethics can keep up. This article asks the urgent question: are we ready for what’s coming? Read more https://
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Digital Ownership Rights: Who Owns Visual Data?
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is it your birthright to own the photons and electrons bouncing off anything you touch
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Universal Basic Intelligence Becoming Available to All
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I cannot wait for universal basic intelligence becoming available to all of you