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AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You. "The absence of mandated safeguards coincides with a rise in queries from users asking AI models how to kill en masse—and chatbots responding with credible plans for mass-casualty attacks" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.

AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries.

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"These findings suggest that prenatal GLY [glyphosate] exposure may interfere with early cognitive and social processes underlying attention, learning, and socialization in early childhood." Via Environmental Epidemiology www.ovid.com/jnls/environ...

Assessment of effect modification in associations... : Environmental Epidemiology

Background:Glyphosate (GLY)-based herbicides are widely used globally, and GLY and its degradant aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) have been...

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Pesticide use around homes and farms is linked to childhood leukemia and brain tumors. Forty years of studies find higher cancer risks among children exposed during pregnancy and early life to pesticides used on farms, lawns and pets. Via @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/p...

Pesticide use around homes and farms linked to childhood leukemia, brain tumors

Forty years of studies find higher cancer risks among children exposed during pregnancy and early life to pesticides used on farms, lawns and pets.

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The effects were most evident among children averaging just 10 to 30 minutes of solitary screen use on televisions, phones or tablets per day across a week. The average U.S. child age 2-5 spends more than 2 hours a day on screens during the week. usrtk.org/healthwire/s...

Solo screen time is a “unique peril" for young children already at risk, researchers report

Solitary screen time on TVs, phones or tablets may worsen behavioral and emotional challenges in young children who struggle with language skills.

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