In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: study tracks the spread of LLM influence through the literature; China approves brain/chip interface for commercial use; automation, datafication, and mutual aid in healthcare; applying public values to AI governance; DEET may fail us now; AIs: engines of efficiency or generators of additional burdens?; survey tracks adolescent use of chatbots; 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 Roundup: the dangers of AI-inducted ‘never-skilling’; Papal encyclical address humanity’s relationship with AI; gene therapy trial for high cholesterol; taking Co-Scientist for a test drive; frontier models seem to know when they’re being tested; art sparks scientific creativity; AI-driven jobs apocalypse yet to arrive, but details matter; costs of mandated open access continue to climb; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: suspect datasets used to train clinical prediction models; LLMs and informed consent; ongoing Ebola outbreak alarms public health officials; different kinds of AI bring different oversight needs; has ‘frenzy of automation’ made the research paper obsolete?; mammal eyes photosynthesize (with some help from spinach); building the ‘moral infrastructure’ for health AI; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: vibe coding in research; frameworks for AI use in healthcare; tracking the diffusion of bogus citations in the literature; reconsidering frameworks for AI regulatory approval; the existential doubt being sown by AI; immunotherapy trial for glioblastoma reports phase 1 results; personal information being surfaced by AI search; deciphering the noncoding genome; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: cooperating AI agents work effectively but alignment suffers; alarm as more parents refuse vitamin K shots for newborns; using automated review to manage flood of conference papers; “AI paradox” affects uptake (or not) of AI tools in healthcare; AIs: still not beating Mark I humans on creativity; journals getting afflicted with AI slop at both ends of peer-review process; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: cursing Cursor runs amok in business database; Anthropic researchers: ‘incoherence’ a besetting challenge in larger models; cephalopod brains spark interest across neuroscience; FDA announces real-time trial data monitoring; study finds evidence of automation bias in physicians using LLMs; a licensure model for clinical AI systems; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: favoring owls and other signs of AI misalignment; sifting through health queries to Copilot; gamification for emergency triage training; LLMs, EHR notes, and accountability; progress with JEPA world models; the “mixed bag” of the current peptide moment; AI ushers in new era of risks for health system data and infrastructure; much more:
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AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: Stanford 2026 AI Index report shows public, expert view of AI diverging; why we’re drawn to scary stories about AI; rethinking cancer care; dubious data sets may have been used to train predictive models; rates of youth-onset T2DM increased over a decade; ancient origins for immune system’s antiviral tools; are preprints recapitulating disappointments from the open-access movement?; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In the week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: astronaut’s wearables report health data back to Earth for study; finding ways to help the machine forget; study describes “cognitive surrender” in LLM users; rural-urban gap in resources may spell trouble for clinical AI implementation; moving the needle on nutrition is both hard & complex; what to do when clinicians evade institutional governance on AI use; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: “accountability ping-pong” and health AI; chatbot flattery threatens empathic responses; use of AI scribes at 5 health systems associated with “modest” improvements in EHR time; frontier models confidently describe medical images without actually seeing them; LLM fine-tuning can cause models to regurgitate large quantities of copyrighted text; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: neither docs nor AI can reliably detect deepfake radiology images; genetic switch explains big brains; are non-healthcare companies getting access to protected health data?; genetic errors may explain cloning failures; gut-brain paper under scrutiny for data irregularities; health AI adoption may be exceeding the “speed of trust;” much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: LLM use may subtly influence users’ viewpoints; study critiques attribution methods for explainable AI; PhD students confront complexities of AI use in academia; sleeping sickness on the ropes as new therapy shows curative potential; Microsoft debuts Copilot for health information; concerns grow over RAM shortage as AI gobbles up resources; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: what is and is not a stochastic parrot; using LLMs to ID timing and nature of events from chart notes; survey reveals how authors prefer to use LLMs; AI model predicts functional outcomes from genomic changes; study charts changes from revised kidney function algorithm; lasting impact from some antibiotics on gut microbiome; agentic AI for disease surveillance; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: validation study for updated Epic sepsis tool; Health GPT tool offers mixed bag of results in diagnosing problems; mathematical model for the incentive structures threatening peer review; decades of fictionalized clinical vignettes never identified as such by journal; AI agents keep getting better in terms of capabilities (but not reliability); much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: agentic AI and laboratory automation; revealing the values that underlie AI models; convolutional neural net classifies animal behavior; pilot program for autonomous AI clinical care; role of individual states in supporting research; NBER report finds evidence for AI productivity gains yet to be realized; Elsevier unveils literature-searching AI tool; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: agentic AI goes rogue, seeks revenge; evolutionary link between prokaryotes and eukaryotes; field of computer science being swamped by AI output; people find AI persuasive, even when they know it’s AI; consensus-based guidelines for assessing AI usefulness; semantic ablation and the problem with AI writing; Dutch study: all-cause mortality declines with COVID vaccination; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: “juggling” increased work demands with AI may incur steep human costs; chatbot responses to health questions are highly sensitive to phrasing; statin study meta-analysis finds no causal link with commonly reported adverse events; analysis of educational AI finds quality of evidence for outcomes lacking; “digital twin” approach to limb prosthetic control; much more:
AI Health Friday Roundup
In this week’s Duke AI Health Friday Roundup: evidence on benefit for LLM-human collaborations still murky; probing associations between AI use and depressive symptoms; randomized trial examines human plus AI for mammogram reading; geographic AI analysis reveals gaps in MMR coverage; the argument against abdicating peer review to AI; plain language summaries could improve public understanding of science; much more:
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:
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:
