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Larry Hunter

142 trust researcher @proflhunter.bsky.social · 5,273 followers
AI research Culture, work & education Responsible AI
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.

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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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CNN really downplays the seriousness of this incident in the headline, for whatever reason

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  • A US special operations command analyst used an AI chatbot to assess a Chinese ship's manifest, and it falsely reported nuclear weapons components.
  • Armed troops were preparing to board the vessel and planes were airborne before officials caught the error and halted the operation.
  • The chatbot fused open-source and classified signals intelligence, and the analyst then used AI again to package the report for wide dissemination.
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A.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/n...

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An understatement: The “call for the administration to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies, raised alarms among biomedical researchers and academic…

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities nytimes.com
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  • The White House's July 21 report 'Science: A New Golden Age' reshapes a roughly $200 billion federal R&D budget, steering money away from universities.
  • OSTP director Michael Kratsios and OMB director Russell Vought want portable 'golden ticket' awards that follow individual scientists, not their institutions.
  • A companion Genesis Mission commitment adds more than $5 billion for AI-driven research across 15-plus agencies, from drug discovery to grid modernization.
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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/

The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io
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"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…

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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

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