Future Perfect Archive
Archives for August 2024
Organ companies are getting up to pancreas hijinks.
Are tech companies actually pushing AI down our throats?
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.
A new generation of drugs promised salvation from hepatitis B and C. What went wrong?
Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
My generation was taught to change the system. That lesson came at a cost.
The case against Medicare drug price negotiations doesn’t add up.
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.
But there might be global consequences.
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water.
A first case outside of the continent has been detected in Sweden. What’s next?
While better data is needed to understand just how wide the gap is, help doesn’t have to wait.