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STAT's AI Prognosis newsletter argues that the widespread fear of artificial intelligence causing human extinction is too far removed from the current state of health care AI to be discussed in the same breath.
The publication, which serves as a subscriber-exclusive guide to AI in medicine, notes that the fervor surrounding these existential risks has continued to build over the last couple of weeks.
The newsletter raises specific questions about whether the current discourse is driven by marketing efforts from Anthropic and OpenAI as they prepare to go public.
It also asks if recently disclosed AI safety incidents are merely examples of basic incompetence in cybersecurity and infrastructure, packaged to make the technology appear impossibly smart.
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