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Increasing use of generative artificial intelligence by teenagers
A few years ago, many products that used artificial intelligence were based on machine learning models that made predictions from large sets of example data. For example, machine learning models have been used to predict whether an X-ray shows signs of a tumour. Reference Zewe1 Recently, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models were developed, which create new data similar to the input data rather than making predictions.
Artificial intelligence and deskilling in medicine
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in medical practice for visit documentation, treatment plans and discharge summaries, 1 which are all tasks that were previously completed by the physician. There has been a rapid growth of FDA-approved artificial intelligence devices in medicine, with 1016 FDA-approved devices as of March 2025, 2 an increase from 64 devices in 2020.
Importance of patient online activities
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Artificial intelligence and increasing misinformation
Although there is widespread excitement about the creative successes and new opportunities resulting from the recent transformative technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), one result is increasing patient exposure to medical misinformation. We now live in an era of synthetic media. Text, images, audio and video information can be created or altered by generative AI models based on the data used to train the model.
Artificial intelligence and increasing misinformation
Although there is widespread excitement about the creative successes and new opportunities resulting from the recent transformative technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), one result is increasing patient exposure to medical misinformation. We now live in an era of synthetic media. Text, images, audio and video information can be created or altered by generative AI models based on the data used to train the model.
UCLA faculty voice: Low interest rates are bad for your brain
Dr. Peter Whybrow is director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the author of “The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived.” This column appeared Sept. 18 on Zócalo Public Square. In today’s interdependent turbocharged world, we all feel the downstream shocks from China’s wobbling experiment in casino capitalism — and they are painfully familiar.
Short-Term Profits Are Bad for Your Brain
Zocalo Public Square is a not-for-profit Ideas Exchange that blends live events and humanities journalism. Market booms and busts, like the one we are seeing now in China, are not new, as history tells us. Holland’s tulip mania in the 1630s, the South Sea Bubble a century later, and the financial turmoil that gripped the nascent United States in the are topped in their drama only by the freewheeling flapper years that ended in the crash of ’29 and the Great Depression.
UCLA faculty voice: Neuroscience helps explain American households’ $12 trillion debt
Dr. Peter Whybrow is director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the author of “The Well-Tuned Brain: Neuroscience and the Life Well Lived” (out May 18 from W.W. Norton), from which this op-ed is adapted. This op-ed appeared May 10 in the Wall Street Journal. The reward circuitry of the human brain is vital to our survival, but it wasn’t built to grapple with seductive credit card offers and no-money–down mortgages.
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Scott Monteith, Tasha Glenn, John R. Geddes, Peter C. Whybrow, Eric D. Achtyes, Suzanne Huberty, Rita Bauer, Michael Bauer Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry , FirstView Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2026, pp. 1-3 View abstract The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) by teenagers is increasing rapidly. GenAI is a form of artificial intelligence that creates new text, images, video and audio, using models based on huge amounts of training data.
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