AI Policy, Ethics, Safety & Geopolitics

Jul 15, 2025 Robotics, Hardware & Chips AI Policy, Ethics, Safety & Geopolitics sustainability-times.com

Autonomous Surgical Robot Completes Gallbladder Surgery Flawlessly

This article reports that Johns Hopkins University researchers trained an autonomous surgical robot called SRT-H (Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy) to perform gallbladder removal surgery. The robot analyzed surgical videos, responded to voice commands, and adapted in real time during trials on …

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Jul 13, 2025 Other / Miscellaneous alum.mit.edu

Excel Co-Creator's Career Shift to Civil Liberties Work

This MIT Alumni Association profile covers Doug Klunder, who helped develop Microsoft Excel and spent 10 years at Microsoft before leaving in 1992 to pursue privacy and civil liberties work at the ACLU. He later attended law school and became privacy counsel in Washington State, working on issues i…

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Jun 8, 2025 AI Industry & Business News open.substack.com

AI Digest Newsletter on Claude Gov and Government AI Use

Content behind a login wall / unavailable — inferred from link context: this appears to be a Substack newsletter post from 'The AI Digest News' titled around 'AI Goes Underground: Claude Gov vs...', likely discussing Anthropic's Claude Gov model built for government and defense use cases versus oth…

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