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4 stories tagged "artificial-intelligence"
Medical Chatbots Reached African Patients Before the Benchmark Meant to Grade Them
More than 500,000 people in Kenya texted an AI maternal-health line in 2024. The money to test tools like it arrived in 2026, and the global yardstick to grade them is still being built.
InvestigationsThe Fraud Hunter Says She Can No Longer Tell Fake Science From Real
Journals retracted more than 10,000 papers in a single year. In one test, 2 of 3 biomedical experts could not tell AI-fabricated images from real ones, and Elisabeth Bik, the field's most relentless fraud hunter, says peer review is not prepared.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Is Building an On-Ramp for Medical AI That Can Hallucinate
The FDA has cleared more than 1,000 AI medical devices and not one large language model. Its new discussion paper starts building the pathway for the ones that can make things up, with faster delivery to market named as an agency priority.
InvestigationsArkansas Cut 18,000 Eligible People From Medicaid Over Paperwork, and the 2027 Fix Is AI Its Own Authors Say Will Reproduce the Bias
A federal work requirement hits ACA Medicaid on January 1, 2027. Health-policy academics propose using AI to verify, screen, and manage the rollout, and the paper's lead author admits the system will "100% reproduce" the biases baked into the data.