Not so long ago, I wrote a piece on some of the ethical question marks that Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises. In the last week not one, but two, topics were brought to my attention that I consider to be examples of the dangers of naive application
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: "God’s Little Joke" – A Tragic Story
I guess I am used to witnessing pain, so I do not cry easily. But this morning I read an article from “Psychology Today” that made me weep silently, my stomach in knots. Titled “The Cyclops Child” and written by a retired MD, it tells the story of this doctor
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Doctors Don’t Always Get to Bury Their Mistakes
One question – who allowed this to happen? “This” is the oxycontin addiction plague that has swept through northern native communities and may leave enormous suffering in its wake when the drug is abruptly removed from distribution next month. Oxycontin, the so-called “hillbilly heroin”, drug of choice of addicts like
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