{"id":204263,"date":"2026-04-20T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-is-already-here-the-real-risk-in-public-health-is-sitting-it-out\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:00:13","slug":"ai-is-already-here-the-real-risk-in-public-health-is-sitting-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-is-already-here-the-real-risk-in-public-health-is-sitting-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Is Already Here. The Real Risk In Public Health Is Sitting It Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/briancastrucci\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-isnt-the-threat---our-hesitation-is\/\">AI Is Already Here. The Real Risk In Public Health Is Sitting It Out<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/briancastrucci\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-isnt-the-threat---our-hesitation-is\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/briancastrucci\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-isnt-the-threat&#8212;our-hesitation-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 22:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.forbes.com\">www.forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article using an unordered list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bernie Sanders&#8217; April Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal highlights growing public unease about Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on concerns about jobs, power, misinformation, and societal impacts.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite widespread AI adoption for tasks like research and writing, many Americans exhibit hesitation rather than outright rejection towards AI, leading to potential disengagement if concerns are not addressed.<br \/>\n&#8211; The public health sector, despite its critical need for AI tools to handle high-stakes tasks at a scale, often defaults to caution instead of integrating and shaping its use.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has taken a forward-looking stance by recommending responsible AI use, emphasizing human oversight, privacy, and scientific integrity.<br \/>\n&#8211; The article argues for building guardrails\u2014guidelines for safe AI use\u2014rather than walls of avoidance, to shape AI\u2019s integration more constructively.<br \/>\n&#8211; There\u2019s a pervasive belief that AI will reduce job opportunities, but history suggests that new technology reshapes rather than completely replaces work.<br \/>\n&#8211; The decision for public health and other fields isn&#8217;t a binary choice to accept or reject AI; it&#8217;s about whether to proactively shape its integration or adapt to it afterward.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Is Already Here. The Real Risk In Public Health Is Sitting It Out https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/briancastrucci\/2026\/04\/20\/ai-isnt-the-threat&#8212;our-hesitation-is\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imageio.forbes.com\/specials-images\/imageserve\/69e6e3a97094e06c15416624\/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-204263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204265,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204263\/revisions\/204265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}