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Artun Faliro (@[email protected])

1.51K Posts, 33 Following, 33 Followers · I am a systems scientist, medical doctor accredited as Diplomat of American Board of Clinical Pharmacology, senior editor and curator from molecules to politics, and researcher from cell-to-society. I am an alum of University of Toronto (MSc and PhD), earned a Master of Arts (MA) from York University in Social & Political Thought with my research focusing on queer movements in Uganda and Europe, titled "Homocapitalism - The Imperial Boomerang".

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Artun Faliro Jul 24, 2025

AI in #publichealth. Will artificial intelligence speed up #drug and medical device approvals?

"can be useful for generating meeting notes and summaries, or email and communique templates.

But it has also made up nonexistent studies, known as AI “hallucinating,”

"Anything that you don’t have time to double-check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently,”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/fda-ai-elsa-drug-regulation-makary

#healthcare #regulation #pharmaceuticals #medicaldevices #AIhallucination #politics #criticalpolicy

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies

Insiders tell CNN the FDA’s AI is “hallucinating” studies and can’t access key documents. Agency leaders insist the AI is getting better, and use is not mandatory.

CNN

Artun Faliro Jun 22, 2025

"The question isn't whether "AI" works in education (whatever that means), but whether we want the tech monopoly -- really, just four or five companies and a tiny group of tech-oligarchs -- to control every aspect of our lives"

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/hard-times/?ref=second-breakfast-newsletter

#criticalpolicy #sociology #politicaltheory

Hard Times

"'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This

Second Breakfast

Artun Faliro May 8, 2025

Micro Oped: Nested hegemonies or matryoshka hegemonies

Inclusion without equality is a contemporary [sociological] technology of co-option in the 21st century and has been hollowing out critical thought and liberatory struggles.

Consciously choosing to be outside the circles of uncritical thought, objecting to inclusion without equality and power redistribution, is a liberatory praxis.

#nestedhegemonies #matryoshkahegemonies #socialtheory #democracy #criticalpolicy #sociology

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Artun Faliro Mar 3, 2025

Second Breakfast: "The War on the Imagination"
By Audrey Watters • 03 Mar 2025 • New York

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-war-on-the-imagination/

"We can't automate this work, obviously. It’s not a task or a routine to be engineered. It’s relational, emotional."

#imagine #ideas #criticaltheory #politicaltheory #criticalpedagogy #digital #technologypolicy #criticalpolicy #democracy #arts

The War on the Imagination

There were numerous news items last week about surveillance and algorithmic decision-making in the workplace. These kinds of stories aren’t new, of course. But as Elon Musk has infiltrated the White House, instructing his minions to eliminate as much of the federal workforce as possible; and as the Trump

Second Breakfast

Artun Faliro Dec 27, 2024

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2024

#criticalpolicy

https://www.techpolicy.press/top-30-most-read-pieces-on-tech-policy-press-in-2024/

Chapter 5: Towards an ethics-of-ethics for responsible innovation

Responsible innovation is an emerging social movement, concept and practice in governance of science and technology. Yet, responsible innovation cannot be fully understood without its historical origins and the gravitational pulls that are impacting its development. Responsible innovation is emerging against a backdrop of: (1) bioethics scholarship that has been transformed over the past two decades such that a major wing of the discipline has adopted a utilitarian science enabler functionalist role situated in immediate proximity (and perhaps too close) to the science and technology actors; and (2) the field of science and technology studies (STS), which has traditionally offered critical insights into the backstage of science and technology, deconstructing the ways in which context, power and politics play an ever-present role in scientific knowledge co-production. In in this chapter I propose that for responsible innovation to evolve in a manner that is as socially responsive and responsible as the science it seeks to shape, a new epistemic layer of inquiry should be added, termed ethics-of-ethics. Recognition of ethics-of-ethics would foster greater reflexivity on the importance of processes of knowing, not only in natural science and technology, but also in social sciences and humanities. Such nested governance and independent cross-checking of knowledge co-production in both science and ethics would ensure that scientist, social scientist, humanists and ethicist are held accountable through transparency, for example, in the epistemological choices made, the upstream agendas created and the ends to which socio-technical analyses are intended to serve.

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Artun Faliro (@[email protected])

FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies

Hard Times

The War on the Imagination

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2024 | TechPolicy.Press

Chapter 5: Towards an ethics-of-ethics for responsible innovation