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  1. · Explainers

    Asking an AI for health advice: the right habits

    Many people ask an AI about their symptoms. What it can really do for your health, and what it must never replace.
  2. · Society

    In Utah, an AI can prescribe acne treatment

    In Utah, an app can prescribe a first course of acne treatment on its own, a first in the United States. What it is allowed to do, and what it is not.
  3. · Society

    ChatGPT for Teens rated an "unacceptable risk"

    OpenAI promised to alert parents in a crisis. Common Sense Media tested it: an hour on suicide, no alert. What you need to know.
  4. · Explainers

    What is pharmacovigilance, and what AI is changing about it

    Pharmacovigilance monitors medicines after they are authorised. We explain how it works, why it is indispensable, and what AI can bring to it without changing its rules.
  5. · Society

    An AI spots side effects in 400,000 online messages

    An AI analysis of 400,000 messages posted online has identified unexpected symptoms in users of semaglutide-class treatments. We examine what this type of study contributes and its limitations.
  6. · Society

    Doctors put the brakes on medical AI beyond diagnosis

    Clinicians are challenging the expansion of medical AI beyond diagnosis, citing weak performance data. We explain why this boundary is not arbitrary.
  7. · Society

    AI in medicine: where do we really stand, beyond the announcements

    Between the headline-grabbing announcements and the reality of hospital services, we take stock of what AI actually brings to medicine today, where it falls short, and why deployment is slower than promised.
  8. · Vision

    Is AI making us more lonely?

    Does talking daily to an available and benevolent AI change our relationship with others? We examine the mechanisms at play, what the data allows us to say, and where the line lies between complement and substitution.
  9. · Vision

    Why do we want so badly for machines to resemble us?

    Anthropomorphism, the tendency to attribute human traits to things that lack them, is a deep cognitive reflex. We explore why it exists, why AIs trigger it so powerfully, and at what point it stops being harmless.
  10. · Society

    Those who look at the worst so that AI learns to refuse it

    Second instalment of our series on AI workers. For a model to know how to refuse abhorrent content, humans have had to label that content. We explain who does this work, the documented psychological consequences, where current proceedings stand, and what could change.
  11. · Vision

    Can you love an AI? And if so, is that a problem?

    As China shuts down its AI companions, a universal question emerges: can you form a real bond with an artificial intelligence, and is it healthy? We explore, without judgement, what these relationships fill, what they risk replacing, and where to draw the line between comfort and dependence.
  12. · Society

    China switches off millions of virtual friends: on 15 July, AI companions disappear

    On 15 July 2026, an unprecedented Chinese law comes into force, forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down the emotional AI companions of Doubao and Qwen. Millions of users risk permanently losing agents built up over months. We break down this regulation, what it really targets, and the universal questions it raises.
  13. · Vision

    Why are we starting to talk to AIs like they're friends?

    The phenomenon doesn't affect other people. It affects you, perhaps already without your having really noticed. You type a personal problem into a ChatGPT window and you really listen to the answer. You call it "asking an AI for advice". But it's something else. It's probably the deepest conversation many people will have had this week.
  14. · Vision

    The medicine of tomorrow: where AI can really take us

    Cellular reprogramming, digital twins, drugs discovered in a matter of months, treatments tailored to each patient's genome. AI is not revolutionising medicine from the outside: it is transforming it from within. Here is what is genuinely credible over the next 30 years, sources to back it up.
  15. · Vision

    Why the same work is brilliant if it's human and rubbish if it's AI

    A simple scientific experiment. You show the same image twice to 565 people. Once saying "made by a human". Once saying "made by an AI". Results: -62% in monetary value, -77% in estimated production time, less perceived creativity, less felt beauty. The same image. That is the exact definition of the word bias.

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