In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: AI consumes AI content, converges on generic representations; debut of AlphaGenome; heritability of human lifespan may be underestimated; measles infections spread in SC; gaming disorder or gambling disorder?; disclosure of AI use in medical publications; new approaches for restoring public trust in science; robot hand detaches from body, scuttles off by itself; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup 2026
The AI Health Friday Roundup highlights the week’s news and publications related to artificial intelligence, data science, public health, clinical research, health policy, and more.
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: interview with Yann LeCun on going all in on world models for AI; cows discover tool use; challenges to integrity of peer review grow; should people get comfortable with imperfect health AI?; too many elderly patients still getting meds that affect central nervous system; questioning productivity boosts from AI; benefits of nature (real and perceived) for urban dwellers; more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: AI may be imposing tunnel vision on science; new report shows stubborn problems in cardiovascular health; taking Health GPT for a test drive; the genetics influencing a dog’s ears; housing, food insecurity among healthcare workers; progress in AI vs clinician deskilling; LLMs appear to have “memorized” large swathes of training data; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: the pinball-like nature of LLM parameters; off-target benefits of vaccines; incorporating humility and curiosity in LLMs; the potential benefits of author-level publication metrics; OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health; international alternatives to PubMed; the relationship between flu and heart attacks; why LLMs remain vulnerable to prompt injection; much more:
