{"id":215275,"date":"2026-02-19T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/the-download-autonomous-narco-submarines-and-virtue-signaling-chatbots\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:35:12","slug":"the-download-autonomous-narco-submarines-and-virtue-signaling-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/the-download-autonomous-narco-submarines-and-virtue-signaling-chatbots\/","title":{"rendered":"The Download: Autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Download: Autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/02\/19\/1133339\/the-download-autonomous-narco-submarines-and-virtue-signaling-chatbots\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-19 08:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cToo often, those victims have been left to fight alone\u2026That is not justice. It is failure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014Keir Starmer, the UK\u2019s prime minister, outlines plans to force technology firms to remove deepfake nudes and revenge porn within 48 hours or risk being blocked in the UK, the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n

One more thing<\/strong><\/p>\n

End of life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help?<\/strong><\/p>\n

End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates\u2014the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person. Friends or family members may disagree over what\u2019s best for their loved one, which can lead to distressing situations.<\/p>\n

David Wendler, a bioethicist at the US National Institutes of Health, and his colleagues have been working on an idea for something that could make things easier: an artificial intelligence-based tool that can help surrogates predict what the patients themselves would want in any given situation.<\/p>\n

Wendler hopes to start building their tool as soon as they secure funding for it, potentially in the coming months. But rolling it out won\u2019t be simple. Critics wonder how such a tool can ethically be trained on a person\u2019s data, and whether life-or-death decisions should ever be entrusted to AI. Read the full story.<\/p>\n

\u2014Jessica Hamzelou<\/p>\n

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