Science-and-Society

Digital health applications and psychotherapy follow different capacity, evidence, and reimbursement paths. Baumol’s cost disease explains one pressure on labour-intensive care; it does not explain a particular German fee decision or establish that an app substitutes for a therapist.

Anthropic has drawn a public line on military use of its models. The physics community spent the better part of the twentieth century working out what it means to draw that line after you have already built the thing. As a physicist watching this unfold, I find the parallels clarifying and the differences more unsettling than the parallels.