“The dueling decisions leave the FDA and health care providers in a very difficult situation that only the Supreme Court can fully resolve,” Wendy Parmet, professor of law at Northeastern University, said in a statement.

We should be talking more seriously about the latter. The dangers of AI are one reason that thousands of leaders, including researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern, signed an open letter last month proposing a six-month pause on developing systems more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4. 

One hundred days into 2023, there have been 15 mass killings – shootings in which four or more people were killed, not including the shooter – in the U.S., according to a USA TODAY/Associated Press/Northeastern University database tracking the killings. 

“We are in this period of uncertainty,” said Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.

Written by Usama Fayyad Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, Founder and Chairman, Open Insights.

“It is yet another layer of dehumanization,” Barbara Larson, a professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, told me.

The 15 mass shootings this year are the most during the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009, when 16 had occurred by April 10, according to a mass killings database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

The broad bucket of Covid-related tort cases that lawyers here and elsewhere in the country are pursuing are “hard cases to bring,” says Wendy Parmet, the faculty co-director at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.