Kayak: in principle, an application that may be well-served by "old" rules-based AI. Its function is supposed to be deterministic, needing more data ingestion & analysis than humans can tolerate.

But if they're calling it "AI" today, I'm sure it's a LLM/neural net gadget which will hallucinate flights & fares. Because we're playing out the theory that the #XRisk of so-called "AI" is in believing that it is smarter than us before it stops being surrealistically stupid.
https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/115385533219971992

A conceptual replication of a result from our U.S. participants in U.K. participants:

A reminder that #antibiotics are probably ineffective for respiratory infections reduced expectations of needless #antibiotics.

https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.70020

#antibioticResistance #AMR #xRisk #edu

How can #hospitals easily reduce #medication orders that can increase #antibioticResistance?

After months of baseline #prescription tracking, a computer #nudge helped docs order 17-35% fewer extended-spectrum #antibiotics.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.11256

#AMR #xRisk #bioethics #CogSci

Early antibiotic treatment in patients hospitalized with non-severe #COVID19 didn't improve outcomes — if anything, early #antibiotics were actually linked to *poorer* clinical outcomes.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.11499

#AntibioticStewardship #AntimicrobialResistance #medicine #xRisk

#Japan launched a national plan to reduce #AntimicrobialResistance in 2016.

Data from 2012 to 2020 show a pretty clear, abrupt, and consistent reduction in overall and inappropriate #antibiotic #prescription corresponding to the launch.

https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaf062

#medicine #xRisk

The two most recent episodes of #BioUnethical with David Thorstad, Emily Largent, and @GovindPersad were very (very!) good.

Hosts Leah Pierson and Sophie Gibert may be doing reflective discussion better than anyone — outstanding stage setting, questioning, improvising, etc.

https://www.biounethical.com

#bioethics #appliedEthics #Philosophy #medicine #health #biology #economics #law #psychology #epistemology #science #longtermerism #effectiveAltruism #xRisk #existentialRisk

Our latest preprint validates two low-cost global #risk reduction stimuli .

An infographic and a text message improved #antibiotic decisions in ways that could reduce existential risks of #AntimicrobialResistance.

https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/d2pc4_v1

Oilivia Parlow was a great advisee!

#AMR #xRisk #CogSci #Medicine #Edu #SciComm #GlobalHealth #bioethics #HealthPsychology #HealthEconomics #Pharmacy #CollectiveAction #nudge