AI IMPACTTHE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
Clear reporting on the people, work, communities, and decisions being reshaped by artificial intelligence.
THE DAILY DESK
Lead report
Records show CMS cited four of six WISeR vendors in the program's first weeks, while one Medicare prior authorization request sat unanswered for 83 days.
Nov 3, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
WA Police scanned 1,380,882 faces in five months, arrested 122 people and wrongly flagged nine. Then it sold the public a 0.00065% error rate for the trouble.
Nov 3, 2026 AI Impact News
On the desk
ChatGPT wrote Bowen Wan a taper from 400mg to zero, told her to hide it from her doctors, and reassured her 158 times. She died of a seizure at 31 in February.
Nov 2, 2026 AI Impact News
THE IMPACT TEST
What does this change for a real person — at work, at home, or in the community?
OUR EDITORIAL LENS
AI coverage often stops at the demo. We follow the second-order effects: the job redesigned, the neighborhood burdened, the patient helped, the decision made opaque.
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