Democracy Dies in Darkness

By Elizabeth Dwoskin

Elizabeth Dwoskin reported this story in Washington, D.C. and in Silicon Valley, where she has covered the tech world for over a dozen years.

Last summer, Amy Gleason became a true believer in the wonders of artificial intelligence.

Her daughter Morgan had spent more than a decade battling a debilitating autoimmune disorder. But when the 27-year-old uploaded 16 years of meticulously kept medical records into ChatGPT, the machine reported that Morgan was suffering from a different ailment than the one diagnosed by doctors. The new assessment granted her entry into a coveted clinical trial.


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