Smart devices promise their users utopia, but the impact of this technology is felt far beyond the home, says Kansas State University’s Heather Suzanne Woods.
ECMO machines can function as lungs and heart for patients whose organs are failing. Physician Clayton Dalton says the process can keep a patient going until recovery or a transplant, but it’s afflicted with ethical questions.
Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter at Proof News, found companies like Apple, Anthropic and Nvidia are using text scraped from YouTube to train large language models. Content creators say they didn’t give consent.
Industry veterans Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao compare the need for oversight to the role of the FAA in aviation. “We need something to counter the massive power and the massive influence and the complete lack of protections,” Pao says.
The home diagnostics industry allows patients to test themselves for illnesses and allergies in the comfort of their homes. Some medical experts are wary of on-demand medicine, but health tech investors Chrissy Farr and Anarghya Vardhana say it makes care more accessible.
