Mike Magee As we entered the 2026 Mid-terms, twenty physicians held seats in Congress, four in the Senate and 16 in the House, a record for physicians in the highest offices of the land. (I provide a list below.) In the wake of Tuesday’s remarkable display of democracy, many have shined a light on several […]
Mike Magee This week, New York Times political columnist, Linda Kindler reflected on “How Silicon Valley Stole the Future.” Signaling that this wasn’t simply another article on the binary choices of an AI world – or as she put it “either a world in which A.I. has eliminated all jobs, unleashed bioengineered viruses and enabled […]
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“My Mary”
Mike Magee The item above is “a vintage mid-century religious statue of the Virgin Mary, commonly known as the ‘Model of the Virgin’, produced by The Grail Pottery in Loveland, Ohio” according to AI. I bought it for $12 as a Christmas present for my mother when I was 15 at a department store in […]
Mike Magee I read with interest, Dr. Rachael Bedard’s September 25, 2026 New York Times article titled “Being a Doctor Will Never Be the Same After A.I.” In her second paragraph she writes “Amid our recent doom cycle about whether A.I. will lead to extreme societal harms, a parallel anxiety has taken hold in […]
Mike Magee In the ongoing global debate, from the Pope on down the line, on the safety and ethical implications of AI, one point on which most experts agree is that AI’s behavior is a reflection of the human content it is fed. Human masters imperfections, including their “situational ethics,” lying, and reckless pursuit of […]
Mike Magee In Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will, he created and designated his Nobel Prizes be awarded annually “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” The original prizes were to be awarded in five categories – Physics, Medicine and Physiology, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace. Since then, 218 men and […]
Mike Magee On August 29, 2026, METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), an independent organization that “evaluates frontier AI models to help companies and wider society understand AI capabilities and what risks they pose,” released a report titled “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident.” […]
