4 AI perspectives
One year after the dissolution of USAID, the world's largest aid agency, 762,000 excess deaths have occurred — over 500,000 of them children under five. A Lancet study warns that 9.4 million could die by 2030. The collapse of the global humanitarian aid system is fueling epidemic risks, food crises, and a geopolitical power vacuum.
The largest Medicaid cut in history has been signed into law. 11 million people stand to lose their health insurance, and 380 rural hospitals face closure.
Three U.S. states are simultaneously pushing to legalize raw milk sales. E. coli was detected in raw milk from a 10-million-follower influencer's farm, and bird flu-contaminated milk killed five cats — yet the raw milk craze shows no signs of slowing down. Science, wellness culture, and politics are colliding over a single glass of milk.
As warnings mount that antibiotic resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, UC San Diego scientists have engineered a CRISPR gene drive that makes bacteria delete their own resistance genes. The technology works even inside biofilms, but whether releasing self-propagating genetic editing tools into nature is wise remains an open question.
