Brent Donnelly: It’s Not Just X, It’s Y. The article gives voice to the feeling I get reading much of the small-i internet. It ends with a tip sheet that includes this valuable advice: “Assume long form articles on Substack and Twitter are AI-generated unless there is reason to believe otherwise.” Indeed.
Steven Bush for the FT: AI cannot take responsibility for human faults. But of course, AI doesn’t lie to people, people do. “Machines cannot claim moral agency. Even if a human’s role is just to come in at the end, tidy up the more difficult bits or adjudicate on properly knotty problems, they must accept responsibility for the outcome.”
Derek Lowe: A Clinical Trial Nightmare. And it isn’t just AI we should we worried about, and not only online. Lowe points to a particularly horrific example of clinical trial misconduct, this time in a few drive-by research clinics in South Florida. And here I don’t know which is worse, that a small startup didn’t know better and fell for the scheme, or that they paid $35M for the privilege to be scammed. But that is what happens when the whole ecosystem is rotten.