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Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
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Larry Hunter
Knowledge based biomedical data science, artificial intelligence for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics, theory of mattering. University of Chicago / Big Island HI
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Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop nytimes.com
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The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io
bloodinthemachine.com
Reconciling how clinical reasoning is learned in the age of artificial intelligence - npj Digital Medicine nature.com
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Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? newyorker.com
Scaling Self-Play for End-to-End Driving arxiv.org
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Carbon - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceBio huggingface.co
The New (And Slightly Smelly) Center of the AI Boom theatlantic.com
ama-assn.org
AI Embeddings for Cancer Research apply.knowinnovation.com
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Thought this was a reasonably accurate way to position me in the AI zeitgeist; U Chicago Pediatrics is leaning on me hard here, and I’m fine with that. Be curious to see other experts’ results. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
"Few are worried about the prospect of public research scientists using LLMs to discover new peptides; plenty are worried about how AI might be used as leverage against them in their workplaces, or to replace their labor, or to narrow their job opportunities www.bloodinthemach…
Larry Hunter reposted
Medical training faces a new calibration gap as AI enters the clinic. A trial of 111 medical students showed that fluent, misleading LLM explanations degraded diagnostic accuracy from 21.9% to 9.2%. "Shadow AI" can act as a substitute for reasoning rather than a scaffold. #MedSky
Don’t need AI for that, see, e.g. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
Based on something like this paper of yours? Scaling RL self-play for driving is a cool accomplishment! Do you think about how your various approaches might also be applied to humanoid robots? Any particular task seem a good fit? arxiv.org/abs/2606.19641
I don’t think this is fair. There are LOTS of mainstream scientists doing a great job of talking about “actual evolutionary analysis” of humans. @ewanbirney.bsky.social, Director of EBI, is one of my favorites, check out, say arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10041 or ewanbirney.com/2019/10/…
This paper was entertaining, and even mildly reassuring. Major effect of GenAI on cybercrime? Not effective new hacking tools or reduced barriers to entry among noobs, but that tech layoffs drive more skilled coders to crime. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545
New family of generative DNA language models trained on 1T 6-mer DNA tokens in long genomic contexts. Open weights, open source, open training data... h/t @mmitchell.bsky.social huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...
None of these startup-aspirational bros have any real skills. College dropouts imagining they can do neurosurgery. Successful neurosurgeons train for a decade or more! The wholesale rejection of expertise as valuable in modern America is not going to end well. www.theatlantic.…
This use comports (if you squint hard) with the AMA’s recommendations for patients using AI. www.ama-assn.org/system/files...
Interested in multimodal embeddings for advancing cancer research? NCI is putting on an “innovation lab” to catalyze creative ideas and new teams. They are taking a broader-than-usual set of applicants, so think about it even if this is not your usual area. apply.knowinnovatio…
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