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.

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AI Health Friday Roundup

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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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