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As AI Expands In Healthcare, Ex-Anthropic Researcher Warns We're 'Gambling With Our Lives'
An artificial intelligence researcher quit his job at Anthropic on Tuesday and accused the company, and its chief rival, OpenAI, of acting irresponsibly, igniting a frenzy of concern on social media about the rapid pace of the technology’s development. (Capoot and Kharpal, 9/9)
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios. Why it matters: The disclosure raises the stakes on Coxon's now mega-viral resignation from the AI lab, which laid out the broad view that the tech could end humanity. (Mills, 9/10)
More on the use of AI in healthcare —
ARPA-H, the government agency that funds cutting-edge health research, plans to commit $62.7 million to develop artificial intelligence bots that direct treatment of heart failure. Among the goals of the program, called ADVOCATE, is to produce partially autonomous AI devices authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to help treat patients, including assessing symptom severity, prescribing drugs, and ordering lab tests. (Aguilar, 9/9)
Implicity, an innovator in AI-driven cardiac remote monitoring out of Paris, has secured a €35 million funding round to accelerate its international expansion, particularly in the USA, while advancing its AI capabilities and developing next-generation heart failure prediction algorithms. The round was led by European tech growth capital firm IRIS, alongside Five Arrows, the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co. (Cendon Garcia, 9/9)
Rural health care providers, which have struggled for years, are facing nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade. The Trump administration is pointing to a cutting-edge, if unproven way to save them: artificial intelligence. (Payne, 9/10)
As health systems expand their use of artificial intelligence, some are asking a more fundamental question about vendor access to healthcare data: Does the data need to leave the health system at all. That is the approach Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care is taking as it evaluates AI technologies, Christian Lindmark, vice president and chief technology officer, told Becker’s. (Diaz, 9/9)
A team of Northwestern Medicine scientists has developed an AI tool that rapidly and successfully measures colonoscopy quality by reviewing footage of the procedure. (9/9)
In a third of cases, AI chatbots wrongly reassure sleep apnea patients that their symptoms are not serious, discouraging them from seeking a referral to a specialist, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Barcelona, Spain. (Clark, 9/6)
