juliamwright.bsky.social
FRSC and Professor in Halifax🍁 at what used to be run as a university. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement.
“Living with COVID" by taking reasonable precautions to protect myself and others. We have the tools: 😷💉🪟.
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I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
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Near Lunenburg. There were others nearby, but none looked like that one.
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Around the time this was published I wrote to the editor of @annalsofim.bsky.social pointing out some of the more egregious issues that are in this preprint. There was no review of the data or the paper, as far as I know.
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It's time for Annals to revisit that, and it's also time for Canadian institutions and @who.int to take another look at this work that they funded, and which has been used to support bad infection control policy.
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the apparent failure of randomization by sex which disproportionately disadvantaged female study subjects. CIHR talks a good game on sex and gender equity (and we all have to do our unconscious bias training to review) but...
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So the question of whether it was appropriate to do human experiments that involve depriving healthcare workers of appropriate protection for an airborne hazard is a fundamental ethical one. There wasn’t equipoise. The trial was approved by Canadian research ethics boards though
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“AI-hallucinated citations demonstrate that one of the things these models cannot access is the web of relations between text, authority, institutions, rules, and reason-giving. If law school is about anything, it is about teaching you how to understand and work with those relationships.”
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Yeah, that all sounds like AI-type errors to me...