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There is a kind of quiet terror that moves through a children’s hospital when news breaks of a disease people thought had disappeared. In Pennsylvania, that terror became painfully real this week as the state recorded its first measles deaths in decades. For many parents, the announcement felt like a…
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These days, it’s hard to know whether to be amazed or terrified by artificial intelligence. On any given morning, there is a new tool that writes essays, paints pictures, translates languages, or passes medical exams. And yet, just a few links away, there are darker headlines: warnings from scientists who say AI might not just take our jobs, but could actually end us. Some of the most pessimistic predictions suggest there is a greater than 10% chance that AI wipes out all of humanity within the next ten years. That sounds like a Hollywood plot, but these warnings are coming…
The Return of a Vanquished Foe: Pennsylvania’s Measles Crisis and the Weight of Words The silence in the pediatric intensive care unit was heavier than the winter fog blanketing the iron-gray sky over Philadelphia. It was the kind of silence that only occurs when medical teams have exhausted their protocols, when the constant beeping of monitors feels like a funeral dirge, and when the scratchy breathing of a small, bandaged child is the only sound interrupting the hum of the HVAC system. For the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this silence was apocalyptic. For the first time in over a generation, the…
