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Large language models encode clinical knowledge

Tested AI models on standardized medical questions and found they matched or beat human doctors on the test. Whether this carries over to real patient care is a separate question the paper flags but does not answer.

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AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

Oren Etzioni · AI researcher; founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2); professor emeritus at the University of Washington

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  1. Research · Cognition and Behavior

    Who is the Expert? Reconciling Algorithm Aversion and Algorithm Appreciation in AI-Supported Decision Making

    Earlier studies disagreed about whether people trust algorithms or avoid them; this paper says both are true, and the choice depends on the…

  2. Research · Human Capacity

    Human Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Review of Empirical Research

    Reviews the research on when and why people trust AI. Two flavors of trust matter and they shift independently: trust because the AI seems …

  3. Research · Learning

    Generative AI Without Guardrails Can Harm Learning: Evidence from High School Mathematics

    A trial with nearly 1,000 high school math students compared a regular ChatGPT-style tutor to one prompted to safeguard learning. Both impr…

  4. Editorial · Learning

    Failing grades soar as UC Berkeley CS professors see greater AI usage and dwindling math skills

    UC Berkeley computer science courses had elevated failure rates in spring 2026, with CS 10 at 35.3 percent F grades and CS 61A at 10.6 perc…

  5. Research · Cognition and Behavior

    Do students need to think hard? The interplay of AI and cognitive abilities in solving problems

    When students used AI to solve problems they did worse overall, even though they felt good about the work. The gap was sharpest by mindset:…

  6. Research · Cognition and Behavior

    Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

    Microsoft Research's early evaluation of GPT-4, arguing the model shows the first sparks of general intelligence across a surprisingly wide…

— Voices from the field —

AI is a tool. The choice about how it gets deployed is ours.

Oren Etzioni

AI researcher; founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2); professor emeritus at the University of Washington

The most important thing to realize about living in the 21st century, as against the Middle Ages or the Stone Age, is that we are now hackable animals.

Yuval Noah Harari

Historian; author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, Nexus

Because of AI and the frictionless relationships people are engaging in online, a lot of young people are losing the ability to endure rejection.

Scott Galloway

Professor of marketing, NYU Stern; host of Prof G and Pivot podcasts; author of The Algebra of Wealth (2024)

We are building technology to replace humans and automate people away. That is not the enterprise of technology. Its purpose throughout history has been to improve human flourishing.

Karen Hao

Journalist; author of Empire of AI (2025); formerly MIT Tech Review, The Atlantic, WSJ

About the Beats

The tools we design redesign us, and AI is the engine of that work in our lifetime. Catch the Beats brings you the news, research, and voices from the field so you can see what is reshaping you, and stay intentional and conscious about who you want to be on the other side of it.