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Trump’s Latest NIH Purge Claims Another 200 Jobs–and the Cancer Hotline
Roughly 200 more employees at the National Institutes of Health will be laid off, reportedly to balance out recent rehires.

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Breaking it isn’t a failing or a bug; it’s the chief feature.“… Jennifer Burdick, a Philadelphia-based attorney representing clients seeking disability benefits, said that in the past week a new phone line operated by an artificial intelligence system has complicated her efforts to get help for her clients. In one case, she and her paralegal had to call repeatedly before they were connected with a human to discuss a client who never got their disability check last month.
“Many times when you say ‘agent’ it won’t put you through to the hold line, it’ll act like it didn’t hear what you said,” Burdick said. “This is causing some confusion. People are getting frustrated and trying to tell it what they mean, and instead of that being effective at all, it’s been spitting out weird Social Security knowledge.”
When a Post reporter called the phone line Friday afternoon, it took eight attempts to get transferred to an agent. The AI bot asked the reporter several times to end the call and gave unrelated information about a cost-of-living adjustment, Medicare Part B’s premium and benefits available to people after the retirement age.
Social Security has said it plans to roll out the automation to all field offices by this summer, and it is already in use in more than 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast as of the end of April.
A spokesperson said the agency is “constantly improving the feature,” which can be “affected by many factors, including background noise, quality of the connection, and clarity of speech.”…”