Archive for October 2024

Proponents of AI envision the technology helping to manage health care supply chains, monitor disease outbreaks, make diagnoses, interpret medical images, and even reduce equity gaps in access to care by compensating for healthcare worker shortages. But others are sounding the alarm about issues like privacy rights, racial and gender biases in models, lack of transparency in AI decision-making processes that could lead to patient care mistakes, and even the potential for insurance companies to use AI to discriminate against people with poor health

The researchers examined data from 4,018 university students collected during the 2022-23 school year. Participants answered questions about substance use, their sense of belonging at their school and their mental health — specifically about anxiety, depressive symptoms, perceived stress, flourishing in life and confidence in their academic success.

DB… lives alone in a 100-year-old house…. She has cognitive problems related to a stroke 28 years ago, Alzheimer’s disease, and serious vision impairment. With help from a few artist friends, she throws ceramic pots about six days a week. “I’m a very independent person and I find that I want to do everything I possibly can for myself,” she says. “It makes me feel better about myself.”

Dr. Eileen Joy is a Professional Teaching Fellow in Social Work, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

A young man stares at what is left of his family’s homes after Hurricane Helene

When politicians invoke the need to shield children from the dangers of the internet, they often do so as a pretext for introducing sweeping, authoritarian measures that curtail privacy, erode civil liberties, and fundamentally reshape the relationship between the state and the individual.