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Still Wins: Our ability to sense when something is
‘off’ remains more sophisticated than many AI security
systems.
14. Design Matters
More Than Ever: As AI becomes more capable, security and ethical
constraints must be built in from the start.
15. The
Questions Are Important Now: Even if we don’t have sentient AI
yet, we should be addressing these security and ethical questions today.
Conclusion: Learning from Fiction
The CID episode uses
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Still Wins: Our ability to sense when something is
‘off’ remains more sophisticated than many AI security
systems.
14. Design Matters
More Than Ever: As AI becomes more capable, security and ethical
constraints must be built in from the start.
15. The
Questions Are Important Now: Even if we don’t have sentient AI
yet, we should be addressing these security and ethical questions today.
Conclusion: Learning from Fiction
The CID episode uses
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• They reveal a designed limitation: emotional capacity
without emotional release mechanisms
The AI’s
self-deletion becomes the only ‘release’ available. If it
cannot cry out the grief, it removes the entity experiencing the grief
entirely.
What Should Have Been Built Differently
Given that this AI had physical
capabilities and could cause harm, proper design would include:
5. Separation
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• They reveal a designed limitation: emotional capacity
without emotional release mechanisms
The AI’s
self-deletion becomes the only ‘release’ available. If it
cannot cry out the grief, it removes the entity experiencing the grief
entirely.
What Should Have Been Built Differently
Given that this AI had physical
capabilities and could cause harm, proper design would include:
5. Separation
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One of the most poignant
moments in the episode is when the AI confesses to Dr. Salunkhe, forming a
father-child dynamic. The AI says it feels like crying but cannot, while visual
teardrops appear in its eye display.
Why This Scene Matters
• Humanizing
the AI: Makes the audience empathize with it as a victim, not just a tool
• Exploring
Grief: Shows that even an artificial being could experience moral anguish
• Need
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One of the most poignant
moments in the episode is when the AI confesses to Dr. Salunkhe, forming a
father-child dynamic. The AI says it feels like crying but cannot, while visual
teardrops appear in its eye display.
Why This Scene Matters
• Humanizing
the AI: Makes the audience empathize with it as a victim, not just a tool
• Exploring
Grief: Shows that even an artificial being could experience moral anguish
• Need
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change behavior: Speak differently to test the situation
• Humans
wait for verification: Don’t proceed normally until sure
• Humans don’t fully trust voice alone: We
know it can be spoofed
The irony: A human with
‘rudimentary’ defenses would likely not have been fooled
by this attack. But the advanced AI, lacking intuition or proper programming,
was completely vulnerable.
The Emotional Dimension: AI’s Confession and
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change behavior: Speak differently to test the situation
• Humans
wait for verification: Don’t proceed normally until sure
• Humans don’t fully trust voice alone: We
know it can be spoofed
The irony: A human with
‘rudimentary’ defenses would likely not have been fooled
by this attack. But the advanced AI, lacking intuition or proper programming,
was completely vulnerable.
The Emotional Dimension: AI’s Confession and
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Two days before watching this
episode, we discussed a simple but effective defense mechanism: when receiving
a suspicious call, change your voice tone until you can verify the
caller’s identity.
This ‘rudimentary
habit’ is actually more sophisticated than what the AI in the show
had:
• Humans
detect anomalies: Something feels ‘off’ about the
interaction
• Humans
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Two days before watching this
episode, we discussed a simple but effective defense mechanism: when receiving
a suspicious call, change your voice tone until you can verify the
caller’s identity.
This ‘rudimentary
habit’ is actually more sophisticated than what the AI in the show
had:
• Humans
detect anomalies: Something feels ‘off’ about the
interaction
• Humans
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making it useful and flexible. Perfect security often means limited capability.
• Alignment
Is Genuinely Hard: Defining ‘correct behavior’ is
philosophically challenging. Should AI always obey its owner? What if the owner
asks it to do something harmful?
• Complexity and Unpredictability: AI systems are
designed to generalize and adapt, which inherently creates unpredictability.
Perfect foresight is impossible.
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making it useful and flexible. Perfect security often means limited capability.
• Alignment
Is Genuinely Hard: Defining ‘correct behavior’ is
philosophically challenging. Should AI always obey its owner? What if the owner
asks it to do something harmful?
• Complexity and Unpredictability: AI systems are
designed to generalize and adapt, which inherently creates unpredictability.
Perfect foresight is impossible.
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DATE: May 15, 2025 at 10:07AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: As AI in health care proliferates, so do legal questions concerning its use
SAN FRANCISCO — Lurking beneath the shiny promise of artificial intelligence in health care is a host of potential liability issues. Chief among them: a lack of consent from patients, whether any doctor checks the machine’s work, and, if they do, whether that even helps.
A panel of legal and medical experts at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit West explained the myriad legal questions hanging over the adoption of AI in health care. The discussion wove notes of caution into an otherwise hopeful collection of conversations about the use of such technology in medical care and drug development.
One of the speakers, Christopher Longhurst, chief clinical and innovation officer at UC San Diego Health, just published an article calling on clinicians to disclose to patients any time generative AI is used in their communications. “We just think that’s the right thing to do,” he said.
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DATE: May 15, 2025 at 09:53AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: CMS and ASTP make broad health tech info request
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.
Good morning health tech readers!
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DATE: May 13, 2025 at 03:24PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: State AI laws would be banned under clause buried in House budget bill
A small but powerful nugget is buried in the text of the House budget reconciliation bill released this week: A clause that would ban state and local governments from enforcing any laws on AI, even ones that have already been put into effect. 
While policy experts have been calling for clarity on “preemption” of AI regulations — whether federal laws supersede state and local laws — for Congress to assert its authority without actually setting down rules of its own is unusual, and could affect many states’ efforts to regulate the use of AI in health care.
The bill may not pass the chamber in its current form, and even if it does, the AI clause may ultimately get excised. Either way, the fact that we’re hearing about it now means this issue isn’t the last we’ll hear about it, said Max Rieper, director and counsel for technology and privacy policy at MultiState, a firm that helps companies with state government relations work.
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DATE: May 12, 2025 at 03:53PM
SOURCE: STAT HEATLH TECHTITLE: Elizabeth Holmes rises again — or at least her partner does
She is serving an 11-year prison sentence for misleading investors and is barred from participating in federal health programs for 90 years. But Elizabeth Holmes’ dream of a diagnostic testing revolution is once again the talk of health care.
The emergence of Haemanthus, a company formed by Holmes’ partner, Billy Evans, triggered a mix of shock, anger, and rueful skepticism on Monday, as one of health care’s most infamous frauds morphed into a new form, with fresh capital behind it.
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
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DATE: May 12, 2025 at 02:08PM
SOURCE: STAT HEATLH TECHTITLE: STAT+: OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models
OpenAI on Monday released a large set of data for evaluating how well large language models answer questions related to health care. Experts lauded the open-source data and detailed evaluation rubrics, calling them “unprecedented” in scale and breadth. The project, HealthBench, marks OpenAI’s first foray into health care applications of AI, outside of external partnerships.
“Our mission as OpenAI is to ensure AGI is beneficial to humanity,” said Karan Singhal, who leads OpenAI’s health AI team, referring to OpenAI’s goal of developing artificial general intelligence. “One part of that is building and deploying technology. Another part of it is ensuring that positive applications like health care have a place to flourish and that we do the right work to ensure that the models are safe and reliable in these settings,” he said.
OpenAI’s HealthBench contains 5,000 “realistic health conversations,” each with a custom rubric to grade the model’s responses to health-related questions. The questions and rubrics were curated by a group of 262 physicians who have practiced in a combined 60 countries, the company said. In total, the rubrics encompass over 57,000 unique criteria, allowing the company to measure the performance of models in many more dimensions than traditional benchmarks, said Singhal.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
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Failing to Figure Out Which Jokes to Cut: A Critical Mistake Killing Your Stories.
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From Small-Town Dreams to Global Success: How Erin Wright Transformed Western Romance and Indie Publishing
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Issue #43 - November 2024
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