Over the past decade, health insurance companies have increasingly embraced the use of artificial intelligence algorithms[1]. Unlike doctors and hospitals, which use AI to help diagnose and treat patients, health insurers use these algorithms to decide whether to pay[2] for health care treatments and services that are recommended by a given...

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Manufactured chemicals and materials are necessary for practically every aspect of daily life, from life-saving pharmaceuticals to plastics, fuels and fertilizers. Yet manufacturing these important chemicals comes at a steep energy cost.

Many of these industrial chemicals are derived primarily from fossil fuel-based materials[1]. These compounds are...

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The summer of 1975 was the summer of “Jaws[1].”

movie poster for 'Jaws' with shark's toothy mouth under the water with a swimmer on the surface
The movie was adapted from a novel by Peter Benchley. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images[2]

The first blockbuster movie[3] sent waves of panic and awe through audiences. “Jaws” – the tale of a killer great white shark that terrorizes a coastal...

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The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories[1] about “white genocide” in South Africa, echoing views publicly voiced by Elon Musk[2], the founder of its parent company, xAI.

While there has been substantial research on methods for keeping AI from causing harm by avoiding such damaging statements...

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