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The Importance of Understanding Language in Large Language Models

See the following editorial in the November 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have ushered in a transformative phase in artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike conventional AI, LLMs excel in facilitating fluid human–computer dialogues. LLMs in chatbots and ChatGPT have proven capable of mimicking human-like interactions—meeting a demand […]

October 19, 2023

Generative-AI-Generated Challenges for Health Data Research

See the following editorial in the November 2023 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Introduction Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) promises to revolutionize data-driven fields. Building on decades of large language modeling (LLM), GenAI can collect, harmonize, and interpret large amounts of data from diverse inputs including the internet, databases, and electronic medical records (EMRs). […]

October 19, 2023

Blurred Boundaries: Toward an Expanded Ethics of Research and Clinical Care

This editorial can be found in the August 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics In this issue, Morain and Largent raise a pressing issue arising in the context of embedded research—the nature and extent of investigator duties to patient-participants when the line between research and clinical care is blurred. They discuss examples of […]

August 2, 2023

Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits

This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/23/3 Bowman-Smart et al. have written a thoughtful and balanced essay examining some of the ethical issues surrounding large scale use of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and the thorny question of whether it should be […]

March 15, 2023