Archive for July 2025

In an industry built on the myth of neutral algorithms, Grok reveals what’s been true all along: there’s no such thing as unbiased AI – only AI whose biases we can see with varying degrees of clarity.

Researchers analysed data from nearly 50,000 patients recorded in the Scottish Stroke Care Audit, focusing on a range of post-stroke outcomes, including death from any cause within a year and prescriptions given to prevent further strokes. Their findings reveal patients from deprived areas are less likely to receive guideline-recommended treatment after a stroke – particularly for those with a heart rhythm condition called atrial fibrillation, where blood thinners are more effective than aspirin-like drugs in preventing recurrence.

Dr. Niamh McCullagh points to a map of the excavation site of St Mary’s mother and baby home which was run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam.

“While companies are using AI to reduce costs, students are using it for all uni work and to replace thinking, and are subsequently de-optimising themselves for future jobs.” This sentiment was echoed by dozens of university lecturers from the UK and elsewhere, with many expressing grave concerns about the impact of AI on the university experience, warning that students were graduating without having acquired skills and knowledge they would have in the past because they were using AI to complete most coursework. “Being able to write well and think coherently were basic requirements in most graduate jobs 10, 15 years ago,” said a senior recruitment professional at a large consultancy firm from London, speaking anonymously. “Now, they are emerging as basically elite skills. Almost nobody can do it. We see all the time that people with top degrees cannot summarise the contents of a document, cannot problem solve.

Indeed, since the early 2000s, but accelerating over the last decade, corporate conglomerates and tech startups have flocked to active conflict zones, which are the ideal innovation labs. There, dragnet surveillance, mass incarceration, and unfettered drone warfare serve as the AI hype cycle’s underbelly. Death and destruction double as opportunities for data collection and refinement, allowing the private technology sector to stake out a monopoly over AI development in military and commercial sectors. The end result is our present of endless war

None of this is new in the unbroken American tradition of racist state violence and border rule. Under the administration’s border regime, though, violent escalation in immigration enforcement has been lauded, licensed, and now supercharged with unprecedented funding. The consequence will be more deaths like Alanis’, more deaths in ICE custody, like the 13 that have already taken place this year alone, atop a baseline of suffering for millions.

“We’re sending a clear message: Oklahoma’s schools will not be a haven for woke agendas pushed in places like California and New York,” said state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters (above) in a statement, adding the state is dedicated to “raising a generation of patriots, not activists”…. Teacher workforce studies in 2021 and 2024 found that recruitment and retention continues to be a problem for the state, particularly in rural districts and priority subjects like STEM and special education. The Sooner State relies heavily on emergency certified teachers who have no formal training to fill in the gaps. (emphasis added)