health ai safety

  1. Bixonimania Hoax: How AI Chatbots and Science Amplify Fake Medical Diseases

    AI chatbots are getting better at sounding authoritative, but the latest “bixonimania” episode shows how badly that confidence can outrun reality. A fictional skin condition invented by Swedish researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström was absorbed by multiple major AI systems, repeated as if it...
  2. Microsoft Gaming: Nadella Reaffirms Long‑Term Xbox Commitment

    Satya Nadella’s short, pointed message to Microsoft’s gaming teams — “For me, we’re long on gaming. We’ll continue to invest, and we’ll always do so.” — landed like both a reassurance and a challenge: reassurance that the company’s commitment to games remains, and a challenge that words must now...
  3. Oxford Study: LLMs Know Medicine but Struggle with Real World Triage

    A large, preregistered randomized study from the University of Oxford has delivered a sobering verdict: while today’s large language models (LLMs) can store and generate medical knowledge at benchmark-beating levels, they routinely fail when paired with real people seeking medical advice —...