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As AI systems grow more capable, many experts are wondering whether the risks outweigh the benefits. Some of those risks are distant, but catastrophic. Others are happening right now at a smaller scale.

There are likely more people who aren't in quarantine but should be, unaware they’ve been exposed during the normal course of their lives: Going to work, school, and church, shopping for groceries, dining out.

CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was supposed to meet this week. Medical groups fear upcoming vote could limit vaccines for poor kids.

As U.S. hospitals face an increasing risk of encountering measles, and pressure to immediately spot it, health care workers face an unusual barrier: Many don’t know what it looks like.

The Education Department has used a series of interagency agreements to move important functions to other agencies as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the department.