KATE THOMPSON DAVY: Bots, gene-edits, new drugs and the bedside manner of medical AI
Technology isn’t supplanting lab researchers, medical practitioners or policy-drafting lawyers, it is aiding them
03 May 2023 - 05:00
Did you know that the first babies conceived with the help of a sperm-injecting robot — adding that to my tech-writing bingo card, stat! — have already been born?
This claim from one of my regular tech newsletters stopped me mid-scroll last week. So much writing about technology is couched in the terms of promises of breakthroughs yet to be achieved; potentialities articulated as givens. ..
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