The Download: OpenAI’s future research, and US climate regulation is under threat
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Summary
This week’s newsletter from MIT Technology Review focuses on the leading figures behind AI company OpenAI, and the potential risks of its new GPT-5 product.
It also reports on the Trump administration’s new health care records system, and NASA’s recent inability to retain staff and lead climate research.
Trump’s replacement for the Affordable Care Act, which will enable patients to access and share health data via a new system, has raised concerns that patient privacy could be compromised if companies are permitted to use the data to profile patients and influence pricing and coverage decisions.
At NASA, the lack of a permanent leadership team is damaging the organisation’s ability to lead climate research, with nearly 10,000 staff, including astronauts, leaving in 2022.
Separately, the Trump administration is taking aim at US greenhouse regulations, which could undermine US climate policy.