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• Morally, there's an ironclad case that countries or companies responsible for climate emissions should provide compensation

  80% confidence

• The United States and European Union grew into economic superpowers by committing climate atrocities, burning a wildly disproportionate share of the world's oil and gas

  80% confidence

• Uncrewed narco submarines could move more cocaine over longer distances without putting human smugglers at risk of capture

  80% confidence

• Removing beauty filters may have impinged on free expression

  80% confidence

• Too often, victims have been left to fight alone. That is not justice. It is failure.

  80% confidence

• An AI-based tool can help surrogates predict what patients themselves would want in end-of-life decision situations

  80% confidence

• The moral behavior of large language models should be scrutinized with the same kind of rigor as their ability to code or do math

  80% confidence

• Nobody knows how trustworthy LLM technology really is at sensitive tasks as people ask them to play more sensitive roles and agents take actions on their behalf

  80% confidence

• Increasing engagement is not Instagram's goal; the company's true calling is to give its users something useful

  80% confidence

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