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AI May Take Over Doctors’ Tasks Sooner Than Thought: Gottlieb
Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said artificial intelligence (AI) could take over tasks from doctors sooner rather than later.
“The inevitable question isn’t so much if but when these artificial intelligence devices can step into the shoes of doctors. For some tasks, this medical future is sooner than we think,” Gottlieb wrote in an opinion piece published with CNBC.
Gottlieb said AI tools in healthcare are split into two categories: machine learning, which utilizes algorithms to allow systems to “learn patterns from data and make predictions,” and natural language processing, which understands and creates human language.
In a few cases, Gottlieb said large language models are analyzing a patient’s medical records and providing diagnoses and treatments directly to the patient without a physician involved.
“The biggest hurdle may well be establishing a suitable regulatory path,” Gottlieb wrote. “Regulators are hesitant, fearing that the models are prone to errors and that the clinical data sets on which they’re trained contain wrong decisions, leading to AI models to replicate these medical mistakes.”
Pediatrician Fired After Raising Alarm on COVID Vaccines During U.S. Senate Event
A medical expert was terminated by one of her employers after raising concerns about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during an event held by a U.S. senator, according to newly disclosed documents.
After Dr. Renata Moon (who will appear on “American Thought Leaders” premiering Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m. ET) testified during the December 2022 event on Capitol Hill, Washington State University officials told her that they were alerting a state medical commission because she allegedly promoted misinformation, one of the documents shows.
The Washington Medical Commission (WMC) has said that doctors who offer misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and preventative measures “erode the public trust in the medical profession and endanger patients,” that people should lodge complaints against doctors who allegedly provide misinformation, and that it may revoke the licenses of doctors who are found to have spread misinformation.
Drs. Jeff Haney and James Record, Washington State University officials, referenced the commission in a letter to Dr. Moon dated March 3.
“The WMC has asked the public and practitioners to report possible spread of misinformation. There are components of your presentation that could be interpreted as a possible spread,” they wrote. “As such, we are ethically obligated to make a report to the WMC to investigate possible breach of this expectation.”
The university informed Dr. Moon in June that it was effectively firing her by not renewing her appointment as a clinical associate professor of medicine, according to other documents reviewed by The Epoch Times.
“At this time, the needs of the college are moving in a different direction and your participation is no longer required,” Drs. Haney and Record wrote. More detailed reasoning was not provided.
“This is not about my personal situation with the school. This is about freedom of speech for all Americans,” Dr. Moon told The Epoch Times in an email.
“We must create an ethical healthcare system that is concerned only with the well being of individual patients and not the financial interests of massive corporations. We are dealing with conflicts of interest that are larger than any of us ever imagined.”
FBI Says AI Is Making It Easier for Hackers to Write Malware
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has declared that artificial intelligence is helping almost every aspect of cybercriminal activity from development to deployment, and the trend looks to be heading in only one direction.
Speaking on a recent media call, an FBI official indicated that free, customizable open source models are proving increasingly popular among hackers trying to spread malware, conduct phishing attacks and carry out other types of scams.
There has also been a considerable increase in the number of hacker-made AI writers which have been purpose-built to target vulnerable Internet users.
AI’s Scariest Mystery
As tech companies begin to weave artificial intelligence (AI) into all their products and all of our lives, the architects of this revolutionary technology often can’t predict or explain their systems’ behavior.
Why it matters: This may be the scariest aspect of today’s AI boom — and it’s common knowledge among AI’s builders, though not widely understood by everyone else.
“It is not at all clear — not even to the scientists and programmers who build them — how or why the generative language and image models work,” Palantir CEO Alex Karp wrote recently in The New York Times.
It’s still an open question whether AI makers will be able, over time, to provide deeper and better answers for why and how their systems work.
But the more companies build AI that can legibly document its choices and decision paths, the more likely we are to get those answers.
Meet the Company Trying to Control Your Mind
There’s a group of people who control what you are allowed to see — the news you read, the videos you watch, the posts you engage with.
You haven’t heard of them. You don’t know their names, but they determine, through methods both direct and indirect, whether you are allowed to be exposed to particular messages. Their decisions can bankrupt companies, silence voices and fundamentally shift cultural norms. Who are these people and how do they do this?
Well, at the top level you have a network of global elites who have created a universal framework full of guidelines and ratings designed to enforce “approved” narratives and punish disapproved ones. It sounds like a conspiracy theory, except it isn’t a secret and we’re not guessing.
First, you have the World Economic Forum, the WEF, and their platform for shaping the future of media, entertainment and culture. Second, you have the World Federation of Advertisers, the WFA, who represent mega-corporations that control 90% of global advertising dollars. WFA members are a who’s who of global business and include some of our recent wokeified favorites like Bud Light’s parent company AB InBev, Hershey, Procter & Gamble, Lego and Disney.
There is barely a billionaire Fortune 500 CEO, heavyweight philanthropist, government, or woke nonprofit that isn’t associated with the WEF or the WFA.
In 2019, the WFA established the Global Alliance for Responsible Media or GARM. Within months, the WEF adopted GARM as part of its platform for shaping the future of media, entertainment and culture. GARM is a cross-industry alliance that brings these mega-corporations — the advertisers — together with big tech companies like Meta who owns Facebook and Instagram, Google owned YouTube, the CCP’s TikTok and even Snapchat and Pinterest.
This unholy alliance created something they call the Brand Safety Floor & Suitability Framework.
Facebook Took Down COVID Posts After Pressure From the Biden Administration. ‘I Can’t See Mark in a Million Years Being Comfortable With That,’ an Exec Said in Newly Uncovered Emails.
When the White House urged Facebook to clamp down on content regarding COVID-19 — including misinformation or jokes about vaccines — some executives at the company thought CEO Mark Zuckerberg wouldn’t be happy.
The Biden administration pushed Facebook, now under the parent company Meta, to take down content about COVID-19, including theories about its origin and satire about the vaccines being unsafe, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing internal emails and communications.
The report indicates that the Big Tech company gave into many demands, despite some executives pushing back and saying Zuckerberg wouldn’t be on board, the Journal reported.
“I can’t see Mark in a million years being comfortable with removing that — and I wouldn’t recommend it,” said Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs at the time, in an email regarding the Biden administration’s request to take down humorous content about the vaccine, the WSJ reported.
