“Let’s move forward with love, not conquest; humility, not righteousness; generous curiosity, not hardened assumptions. It is a magnificent thing to be alive in a moment that matters so much. Let’s proceed with Broken-open hearts, seeking truth, summoning courage, and focused on solutions.”

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Marine Biologist) and Katherine Wilkinson (Climate Activist), “Onward” in All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, One World, 2020, p. 374.

“American medicine is largely biased toward sensitivity and away from specificity. The prevailing mentality makes it a priority to find pathology and treat it, with lesser regard for cost in dollars, life disruption, and worry. Money is, unfortunately, one of the main motivators in the direction of sensitivity. 

Marc Ringel, MD – Author, Chicago Life – “Sensitive or Specific?”  September 23, 2024 

"They are answering almost everything these days. And that means more correct, but also more incorrect [answers],"

José Hernández-Orallo, Co-Author and Researcher, Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence

"Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was. It's not very good today and, what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it." Asked in a follow-up question whether he has a plan to replace Obamacare or not, he added, “I have concepts of a plan.” He then added as a retort, that Americans should expect to hear more about this “in the not-too-distant future.”

Donald Trump – Republican Candidate for USA President – in a response to a question on what Americans should expect from a Trump Administration related to health care.

“I absolutely support — and over the last four years as vice president — private health-care options…But what we need to do is maintain and grow the Affordable Care Act.”

Kamala Harris – Democrat Candidate for USA President – in response to a question during the Presidential Debate on her change of positions from support of a government-run health care plan as Senator Harris to a less dramatic change in policy as Candidate Harris.

AI agents “will have an impact on the world at a scale that no one understands, yet much bigger than the horrific impact we've had by social media”…[For example, if you say to your LLM] “Make me a copy of TikTok. Steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it, and in one hour, if it's not viral, do something different along the same lines.”

Eric Schmidt, Former Google CEO – in an interview with Azeem Azhar (an AI expert and thought leader) on the potential of AI agents to learn and improve themselves including the ability to text-to-action capabilities which will greatly accelerate the utility of these tools but…also, increase the likelihood of unintended consequences…