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  Blade Runner, Gnosticism, and the more than human

  What does it mean to be human — and could a machine become one too? For philosopher Gigla Gonashvili, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is not a film about artificial intelligence but something older and stranger: fallen angels, trapped light, and the secret of human nature. Here, Gonashvili argues that humanity is defined not by the film’s famous empathy test, but by a sense of shared mortality, and an elegiac awareness that every captured moment is already slipping away.

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  John Ioannidis: AI is generating "false, fraudulent and fake" medical research

  The US spends nearly 20% of its GDP on health and publishes 3 million biomedical papers a year. So why is life expectancy stalling, or perhaps even falling? Stanford professor of medicine John Ioannidis argues that vested interests and basic research mistakes are destroying biomedicine, and that two decades after his bombshell paper, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” the situation has only worsened. AI is generating a new deluge of fraudulent research, and medicine is drifting ever further from quality evidence.

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