Jeffrey A. Singer AI IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: CURRENT AND EMERGING ROLES Many patients have already received care influenced by artificial intelligence (AI), whether through a radiologist’s diagnostic support or an automated follow-up message from an electronic health record. As AI moves from the lab to the exam room, the question is no longer if it will transform medicine, but how—and who will determine ...
Jai Kedia and Jerome Famularo On October 16, the Fed, FDIC, and OCC rescinded interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management for large financial institutions. This is a positive development and a rare occasion when regulators narrow their scope. There were many problems with the principles, as was pointed out by Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman. Most importantly, the ...
Travis Fisher and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial intelligence doesn’t run on optimism or buzzwords. It runs on electricity. This seems to be a growing concern as the technology advances, with outlets from Teen Vogue and Wired to the Washington Post and Harvard Business Review publishing articles about AI’s alarming energy and water consumption. The previous AI doomerism now seems to be ...
Jeffrey A. Singer and Jennifer Huddleston Artificial Intelligence and Health Care: A Policy Framework for Innovation, Liability, and Patient Autonomy Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming every corner of society, including health care. Hospitals and clinics are integrating AI into their electronic health record (EHR) systems to organize data, flag potential drug interactions, and assist in diagnosis and treatment decisions. ...
Marcos Falcone On October 15, after five years of negotiations in Congress, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to legalize euthanasia, i.e., the practice of taking medical action to end life at the request of a patient. As with all such laws throughout the world, the measure is intended as a way to eliminate suffering among terminally ill patients. ...
Colleen Hroncich Teacher Jenna Hill loved Montessori education, but she wanted to incorporate other approaches as she worked with students. When the pandemic hit, she and a fellow teacher, Maria Casco, took the opportunity to create a new learning community, CASCO Learning, in St. Louis. “We took the best of Montessori because we are very rooted and have been in ...
Jeffrey Miron Since September 2025, the US has carried out five lethal strikes on small boats off the coast of Venezuela, leaving 27 people dead as of October 14. Even granting the government’s account—that these were traffickers and the strikes were effective interdictions—the policy question remains: does escalating force in prohibited markets reduce violence? In short: no. When prohibition forces a ...
Nicholas Anthony Who should be trusted with the future of money? Amit Seru, a professor of finance at Stanford Business School, recently took to the pages of the New York Times to call for that future to be held in the hands of the state. He argued that trusting money to the private sector would result in a system that ...
Ryan Bourne Last month, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to restrict National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding from groups that “promote gender ideology.” The outcome is legally unsurprising. For grants or subsidies to private actors, the First Amendment forbids the government from penalizing a particular viewpoint. In this case, the court also ...
Jeffrey Miron When New York’s Attorney General Letitia James prosecuted Donald Trump for financial fraud—claiming he misstated property values to potential lenders—many Trump supporters viewed the prosecution as politically motivated. When a federal grand jury indicted James for bank fraud—alleging she lied in a mortgage application—many Trump critics had the same reaction. Is there a way to remove politics from ...