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MEET THE NEW BOSS, NOT THE SAME AS THE OLD ONE

UC Davis Medical Center nurses are growing frustrated over how higher-ups implemented AI in the hospital. Observe:

An AI alert tells a nurse that one of their patients is showing signs that they’re septic. The nurse knows this patient has leukemia and that the patient's septic odds are low in this scenario.

The AI doesn’t have this context.

But the nurse is forced to draw blood and follow the order anyway. That decision puts the patient at risk of infection and increases their medical bill.

Why couldn’t the nurse say no?

Therein lies the problem. A lot of these AI systems have authority over nurses. They can’t refuse an order without a doctor’s permission (in most cases).

According to a Wall Street Journal article, a survey by National Nurses United showed that 24% of respondents said a clinical algorithm had prompted them to make choices that “were not in the best interest of patients based on their clinical judgment and scope of practice.”

AI is blocking humans from making choices. Algorithms are not managers; when companies (or hospitals) implement these tools incorrectly, it can hurt productivity.

Watch out for the AI speed bump.

The rise of ChatGPT is leading many corporations down the path of automation. That’s a good thing in the long term, but mistakes will cost some people everything.

AI taking agency away from skilled workers and teaching new employees to become overdependent is not a good formula. This issue in nursing is evidence to support that idea.

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LET’S TALK ABOUT LEGAL TROUBLE

You’re tired of all the law talk with AI. I get it, but this news from the EU is can’t miss stuff.

European lawmakers passed the AI Act that’s been mulling around their desks for over two years. I’d call them turtles, but even that nickname would insult our hard-shelled friends. They moved beyond slow, but the emergence of ChatGPT didn’t help.

If you think that’s slow, just wait and see.

If every next step happens on time from here on out, you won’t see the effects of this law until 2026. That’s not a typo—2026, three years after they passed the act.

Member countries, Parliament, and the European Commission will negotiate the document's wording as the next step. Trust me that will take some time. Then the edited law faces final approval.

All that political hocus pocus will take the rest of the year to complete.

We’re not even mentioning the two-year grace period that companies get, so don’t fret about the AI Act.

Then what was the point of all this?

The details reflect one point: privacy regulations have teeth, and that’s where AI companies are struggling right now.

If you’re OpenAI or Google, the AI Act is a knife hanging above the ceiling, but Europe’s privacy laws are the shark swimming straight toward you.

Italy acted on that threat, but the hammer hasn’t dropped at full force.

Is it only a matter of time, or will the EU wait to regulate until the AI Act is in full swing?

Quick Nuggets

🐶 Your dog is smarter than AI right now, according to Meta’s Yann LeCun

🤔 AI junk is crowding out space on Etsy and making it hard to find real sellers

🖼️ The MoMA published an article about Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised, an AI-generated piece

🔒 Google delays the launch of Bard in the EU due to privacy concerns

👎 An anti-homeless mayoral candidate used AI to make images depicting his version of “blight”

🏋️ Sift through fitness info overload with some help from your favorite AI companion

📝 Optimize ChatGPT prompts for sales, marketing, and writing using this TechCrunch guide 

😂 LOL: GPT-4 can’t find answers using Bing and ends up looking up “how to switch browsers”

🙄 The SEO race left us all with a garbage pile of useless text, and it’s partly AI’s fault

👩‍💻 A GitHub survey indicates that 92% of programmers are using AI in some capacity

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• BeforeSunset - from a chaotic list to a clear daily schedule (link)

• BlogTweet - link your blog post & get a Twitter thread out of it (link)

• Foreplay - look over ads while AI builds your swipe file (link)

• Spell - use autonomous agents to complete tasks (link)

• AlphaCTR - mimics the feel of having an in-house designer (link)

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