Should AIs be required to report a human user contemplating violence?
Human therapists have a legal duty to warn authorities and potential targets when patients say they plan to harm someone. The same can – in theory – be required of AI chatbots .
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What workers need when they go on medical leave
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How natural selection helps design antennas, cancer treatments and adhesives
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Creating a 'paper trail' for AI agents spending your money
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The health care barriers refugees face
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How to keep teens who use AI chatbots for emotional support safe
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Green roofs cool cities, but keeping them alive is the hard part
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Why people who deny facts bother us more than people we just disagree with
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"Riding the AI wave has become an AI hunger game"
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How extreme heat can worsen chronic pain (extreme cold, too)
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How cyclospora gets from human waste to your food
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