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The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

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Most people trust scientists to test new ideas on animals or in controlled labs. But some researchers decided that the best test subjects were themselves. These scientists put their own bodies at risk ...