"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…
Who's Who of AI
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
What they're sharing
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
arxiv.org
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AI Embeddings for Cancer Research apply.knowinnovation.com
ama-assn.org
Articles & links
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...
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...
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…
AMA with some decent advice for patients about chatbots. www.ama-assn.org/practice-man...
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