September 1, 2025
(Ars Technica) – AI assistants don’t have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans. There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated outputs. Given a reasonably trained AI model, the accuracy of any large language model (LLM) … Read More
September 1, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
August 29, 2025
(AP) – New York City health officials said Friday that bacteria from two city-run buildings, including a hospital, matched samples from some patients in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem that has killed seven people and sickened dozens of … Read More
August 29, 2025
(CBS News) – There have been 22 cases of Vibrio vulnificus infection in Louisiana residents, the state department of health said. All of the victims were hospitalized. Four people have died, the health department said. Two of the deaths were … Read More
August 29, 2025
(Ars Technica) – There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated outputs. Given a reasonably trained AI model, the accuracy of any large language model (LLM) response depends on how you guide the conversation. They are prediction machines … Read More
August 28, 2025
(NBC News) – An escalating conflict over an influential vaccine committee was one of the final straws that led to the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez and the exodus of other highly regarded top … Read More
August 28, 2025
(New York Times) – A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. The federal government plans to hire private companies to use artificial … Read More
August 28, 2025
(TechCrunch) – When he started to research how municipal non-emergency response call centers work, he discovered that they are often handled by the same people who are answering actual 911 emergencies. Aurelian pivoted to building an AI voice assistant that … Read More
August 28, 2025
(Wired) – A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses. Jointly authored in July by seven departments within the Chinese government—including … Read More
August 28, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The antiabortion movement has found an unlikely new ally to target abortion providers: husbands, boyfriends and exes. Men have filed several recent lawsuits stemming from abortions obtained by their partners or ex-partners. The strategy is part … Read More
August 28, 2025
(CNN) – That small scratch on Lyons’ leg became the entryway for Vibrio vulnificus, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Those black sores on his leg signified necrotizing fasciitis, which “affects the tissue under your skin,” according to the Cleveland Clinic. … Read More
August 27, 2025
(NPR) – The Food and Drug Administration approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines Wednesday, but imposed new restrictions on who’s eligible to get receive them. The agency is limiting the updated shots to people who are at risk for … Read More
August 27, 2025
(NPR) – A growing number of Americans find themselves in a similar pinch. In New York City, negotiations between UnitedHealthcare and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center missed a June 30 deadline, briefly leaving some patients in limbo until a deal … Read More
August 27, 2025
(ABC News) – The odds are stacked against pregnant women in Nigeria’s northeast like never before. The deadly Boko Haram militant group is making a resurgence. And hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid from the United States, once … Read More
August 27, 2025
(NPR) – The digital afterlife industry, which manages a person’s digital assets after their death, is expected to quadruple in size to nearly $80 billion over the next decade. That includes the creation of deadbots. The more immersive these bots … Read More
August 27, 2025
(Quartz) – OpenAI says it’s updating ChatGPT to better recognize when a user is in serious emotional or mental distress as it gets hit with a lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided in a teen’s suicide. The company made the announcement … Read More
August 27, 2025
(CNN) – A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that … Read More
August 27, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – As camera-enabled glasses become more common in public places, young people are pushing back on what many see as a frightening invasion of privacy. On TikTok, a young woman shared a video earlier this month … Read More
August 27, 2025
(Rest of World) – A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren. Kim lives alone in Guro, an industrial hub in the bustling … Read More
August 27, 2025
Public Health Ethics (vol. 18, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles Include:
August 26, 2025
(Longreads) – “Standard of Fear,” a project led by Lauren Caruba and Marin Wolf of The Dallas Morning News, details the consequences of recent laws restricting abortions in Texas, which now has “one of the country’s most strict and punitive … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Wired) – Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Nature) – RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research. There are several reasons to think that a rise in diagnoses explains a large part of this trend. … Read More
August 26, 2025
(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More
August 26, 2025
(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.” Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial … Read More
