A.I. Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For?

Related article on the use of #chatbots by patients and doctors:

#AI is making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find #chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine.

#GenAI #PerilsOfAI

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

AI chatbots give inaccurate medical advice says Oxford Uni study It found people using AI for health reasons found it hard to identify what advice they should trust.

#AI #chatbots pose 'dangerous' risk when giving medical advice, study suggests

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI-generated news should carry ‘nutrition’ labels, thinktank says The Institute for Public Policy Research also argues that tech companies must pay publishers for content they use

‘It [IPPR] recommended standardised labels for #AI-generated news, showing what information had been used…, including … articles from professional news organisations. …[and]… a licensing regime …over the use of their content in #AI news.’

#PerilsOfAI, #GenAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests Exclusive: German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month

A related article:

#Google #AI Overviews cite #YouTube more than any medical site for health queries, study suggests

‘German research into responses to health queries raises fresh questions about summaries seen by 2bn people a month’

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How the ‘confident authority’ of Google AI Overviews is putting public health at risk Experts say tool can give ‘completely wrong’ medical advice which could put users at risk of serious harm

‘How the ‘confident authority’ of #Google #AI Overviews is putting public health at risk’

‘Experts say tool can give ‘completely wrong’ medical advice which could put users at risk of serious harm’

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Generation AI: fears of ‘social divide’ unless all children learn computing skills Children are growing up as AI natives and experts say computing skills should be on par with reading and writing

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“If you don’t understand how those decisions are being made by automated systems, you can’t advocate for your rights. You can’t challenge them, you can’t critically evaluate what’s being presented to you.”

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#AI #GenAI #PerilsOfAI

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

World ‘may not have time’ to prepare for AI safety risks, says leading researcher AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systems

‘The world “may not have time” to prepare for the safety risks posed by cutting-edge #AI systems’

#AI #AISafety #PerilsOfAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds

Google #AI overviews and potential harm

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Reflections on #PerilsOfAI

“If a #chatbot is [doing things for me], ….then I have become a spectator to my own mental and emotional life. My critical and creative thinking withers, and the very nature of thinking itself shifts from introspection to outsourcing,...”

#AI #GenAI

Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

“With all the benefits #AI brings, the challenge is this: how can we harness its promise of superhuman intelligence without eroding human reasoning, the cornerstone of the Enlightenment and of liberal democracy itself?”

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost

‘The #AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed.’

#PerilsOfAI #EnvironmentalCosts

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK actors vote to refuse to be digitally scanned in pushback against AI Equity says vote signals strong opposition to AI use and readiness to disrupt productions unless protections are secured

‘Actors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against #AI in the arts.’

#PerilsOfAI #GenAI #CreativeArts

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

‘#AI views both suffering and care as computational problems’

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This just happpened. Star Trek fans will get the reference. #chatgpt #AIerror #AI #ai #hallucination #startrek #nomad #hal9000 #perilsofai @geoffreyhinton.bsky.social @danharris.bsky.social

Meet The AI Professor: Coming To A Higher Education Campus Near You The integration of AI in higher education is explored and considered in relation teaching and learning. Meet the AI avatar professor

#AI professors will work alongside human professors - is this the way forward? No!!!

#PerilsofAI

www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

Emily Blunt and Sag-Aftra join film industry condemnation of ‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood US actors’ union joins stars in opposition to Norwood, which it says was created ‘using stolen performances’

“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers – without permission or compensation …devaluing human artistry.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

#PerilsOfAI #AI

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

‘Companies desperate to rush generative #AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. The consequences are that #AI slop is entering libraries,….’

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

#AISlop #GenAI #PerilsofAI

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished

“Why would you work if your work can be stolen, degraded, stripped of your association, and made instantly and universally available for free?”

#GenAI #AI #LLLMs #Copyrights #PerilsofAI

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

“How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s #AI to seem smart

Contracted #AI raters describe gruelling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make #chatbots intelligent”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

‘Humans are being hired to make #AI slop look less sloppy

In the age of automation, human workers are being brought in to fix what #ArtificialIntelligence gets wrong.’

#GenAI #AI #PerilsofAI

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and AI People self report that chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy

‘Here’s the truth about the Civil Service and #AI

People self report that #chatbots make them more efficient. The reality is not so rosy’

#AI #GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4900b06...

ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poision him

“#ChatGPT fed a man’s delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her

Computer system told former marketing manager ‘you’re not crazy’ and encouraged belief family tried to poison him”

#ChatGPT #GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/4ec73da...

ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim Lawsuit says AI chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’

#ChatGPT ‘coached’ suicidal teenager to kill himself, parents claim

Lawsuit says #AI #chatbot validated Adam Raine’s ‘harmful and self-destructive thoughts’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e2c0ef1...

The next ‘AI winter’ is coming The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again

“The next ‘#AI winter’ is coming
The FOMO-driven boom is running out of steam – again”

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2998758...

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns

“The warning signs the #AI bubble is about to burst

Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/306a41e...

ChatGPT is driving people mad AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy

“ #ChatGPT is driving people mad.

#AI software is fuelling paranoid episodes in users – some of which have ended in tragedy”

#GenAI #PerilsofAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/00b5896...

Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from ChatGPT Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting AI software, say doctors

‘Man poisoned himself after taking medical advice from #ChatGPT

Patient replaced table salt with sodium bromide after consulting #AI software, say doctors’

#PerilsofAI #GenAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3935ab6...

Why AI heralds a new age of stupidity Britain’s rush to adopt artificial intelligence risks becoming a race to the bottom

‘Are we doomed to dispense with reasoning, reflection and good judgment? What happens to a society that has lost its ability to think?’

#AI #PerilsofAI #GenAI

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/14ed8fb...

Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.

‘Volunteers fight to keep ‘#AI slop’ off Wikipedia

Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain #AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out’

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#PerilsofAI #GenAI

The #PerilsOfAI