As more and more families try to get courts to prevent their loved ones from being declared brain dead, physicians push for a clearer definition of brain death. Thaddeus Pope and Ariane Lewis aim to lower the threshold for the declaration of brain death in state laws. But why? They believe it’s wasteful to funnel medical resources to the dead rather than the living who do have a chance at survival. Read full article here
Societal Issues
AI Predicts Crime A Week In Advance With 90 Per Cent Accuracy
An artificial intelligence model built by Ishanu Chattopadhyay and his colleagues analysed crime data in Chicago from 2014 to 2016 and managed to predict future levels of crime down to the nearest 300 metres, a week before they actually happened. While extremely useful, this artificial intelligence has been shown to expose racial prejudice in law enforcement. Hopefully, as the study’s data and methodology have been made available for others to evaluate, these prejudices can be avoided in the next iteration. Read full article here
Merv
August 15, 2022
