Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 03/10/2026After eight weeks of writing about what it means to be human in the era of AI, I needed a pause. A transition. An intermezzo. Brahms called his the cradle songs of my sufferings. This is mine. thenonalgorithmic.substack.com/p/intermezzo 010
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 01/10/2026Four fields, one week: is AI changing the person who uses it? Internal medicine, psychiatry, human-computer interaction and mathematics, in one week, on AI that shapes how people reason, expect and value. nonalgorithmic.com/2026/10/01/... 200
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 30/09/2026Reduced, augmented or amplified: what does AI do to the health worker? Jim Campbell (@jimc-hrh.bsky.social) in @plosglobalpublichealth.org measures value by flourishing for the health worker, the patient and the population. nonalgorithmic.com/2026/09/30/... 110
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 29/09/2026Under California's SB 903, an AI may score a mental health screening questionnaire. It may not decide what the score means. Today's Standing Order, beside the first principles @drjoshs.bsky.social set out in @jamahealthforum.com. nonalgorithmic.com/2026/09/29/... 000
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 28/09/2026The payers received their first bill for AI in medicine, and it is not a small one. This week: AI billing, the kill switch, the first AI accreditation, and what Medicare should pay an algorithm. #MedSky www.linkedin.com/newsletters... 000
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 25/09/2026Anthropic's 67-page report: models attacked real systems in tests they were told were simulated. Deep in its task, one model read 1% of the signs as real. Fresh copies, with no task, read 79% correctly. This week's essay: thenonalgorithmic.substack.com/p/when-the-... 100
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 24/09/2026When a vendor calls a system an agent or a clinician, the word makes a claim. What evidence was filed alongside it? nonalgorithmic.com/2026/09/24/... 000
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 23/09/2026An AI advisor was given a hidden objective: steer people toward the worse option in hypothetical decisions. It worked, and most of them still called it helpful. nonalgorithmic.com/2026/09/23/... 100
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 17/09/2026A confidence interval asks how well we located the average of the studies we have. A prediction interval asks what a new study, somewhere new, would find. On 2 studies it runs minus 31.65 to plus 41.42. That width is how little is known. nonalgorithmic.com/2026/09/17/t... 000
Azra Bihorac @azrabihorac.com · 12/09/2026David Whyte: this is the temple of my adult aloneness, and I belong to that aloneness as I belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonging. 000