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Book Review: The Case for the AI-Powered Global Brain (opens the original)
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In “The God Test,” Robert Wright considers a future in which human consciousness becomes infused with AI. “We have to think seriously about a future in which there is something that increasingly resembles a global brain, and its neurons increasingly consist not just of human brains but of AIs,” he writes.
Interview: How Tragedy Changed the FDA (opens the original)
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As an FDA advisory committee prepares to weigh whether specialized pharmacies should be allowed to dispense seven unapproved peptides, Mikkael A. Sekeres, a scientist and former adviser, discusses the history and nuances of FDA oversight, including its process for screening advisory committee members for conflicts of interest.
Will AI Fix Prior Authorization — or Make It Worse? (opens the original)
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The Trump administration is currently piloting a program in six states that expands Medicare prior authorizations using AI tools in an effort to reduce unnecessary medical spending. But it remains to be seen whether this new approach, which the administration has called “broken” in the private sector, will be effective without causing dangerous delays for Medicare recipients.
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