Ben Wisniewski

Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski just sent an email to CBS News staff notifying them of layoffs coming today.

Here’s Michelle Obama serving ribeyes to troops as part of a surf and turf meal that has been military tradition since WWII, but mainstream press has suddenly decided is a “gotcha” for some reason.

BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.

This NYS bill will literally kill Same patient a few months earlier. Chemo was interfering with warfarin which his cardio doc had inexplicably kept him on for years despite the rise of DOACs Patient assumes that his INR reader is broken because it’s reading max high. He’s trying to return it to the manufacturer (the reader). Cardio doc is on vacation. He asks me to help switch out the battery. Same read. Still thinks machine is broken. AI highlights the interaction risk with chemo. We go in to get INR tested. Off the charts. Dangerously thin. He’s running a 1 in 10 annualized risk of a brain bleed stroke. Odds of his dying are increased by 60% for every day he’s at that level. Doc on vacation. Physicians assistant advises him to get over the counter vitamin K which is basically no better than placebo and perhaps worse (not least because he buys vitamin K2 which won’t do a thing.) Due to AI I know that this is instead possible hospitalization terrain and also know that we need to find another doc to get a vitamin K Rx. In a perfect world we would all have access to trained experts at the moment that we need them. In the real world we are all underserved. We are all mostly amateurs in most realms. Denying people in need access to expertise when that expertise can literally save a life is no different than murder by neglect. And for what? To win some political plaudits and garner some campaign donations? You, yes you: You deserve to die because this particular politician wants to raise their profile and this protected class wants to preserve their franchise. That is the implicit message of the New York State AI bill. That I - just a regular schmoe who happens to use technology - can honestly relay these anecdotes from just the past few months suggests that they are not that uncommon. This bill will kill unless we kill this bill

BREAKING: New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more.

A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.