News Above the Noise—Week of May 26, 2024
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1. The Big AI Risk Not Enough People Are Seeing
This week, many of us were talking about AI again, as Scarlett Johansson’s battle with OpenAI for allegedly copying her voice for ChatGPT was in the news. And in a piece for The Atlantic, writer Tyler Austin Harper takes a deep dive into how AI may become digital proxies for humans—something that “requires us to have a clear idea of what makes human beings human in the first place,” he writes. To read the story, click here.
2. New Autism Study Reveals “Tantalizing Clues” About Its Development
Scientists recently made a breakthrough discovery in our understanding of the neuroscience behind autism spectrum disorders, which affect roughly one in 100 children worldwide. It turns out dopamine, the famous “feel-good” hormone, might play a role—which means new treatments that target that hormone could be on the horizon. You can read more about this exciting new research here.
3. Patients Fare Better When They Get Palliative Care Sooner
Palliative care, which focuses on improving patients’ quality of life and reducing pain rather than treating disease, is a crucial part of patient care. Yet for too many people, it arrives too late—and when that happens, its many benefits are limited. To learn more about why this happens, and what experts say can be done about it, click here.
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