This is a great comment and I agree that it was interesting what sex was most chosen. I feel like popular choices differ based on the countries and societies. It would be very interesting to see if there exist any correlations between the sex chosen and if sexist policies still exist in the country -- perhaps the parents intend to ensure their children have the best opportunities in the future. I would also ask about how Americans feel as I think it's very important to understand our country's societal beliefs when it comes to genetic editing and personal genomics.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-data-protection-agency-opens-chatgpt-probe-privacy-concerns-2023-03-31/ After reading the article, I took interest in understanding the flaws of a software like GPT-4 and how countries would take to avoiding its consequences. This led to me discovering that Italy had recently banned Chat-GPT, a strict and never-before-seen approach to the dangers of GPT. I personally believe that GPT poses dangers such as not offering confidence intervals on its results and "hallucinating", as stated in the fifth article. Banning GPT prevents these dangers and allows for Italian jobs to be preserved against AI. I, however, believe that GPT will make Italy uncompetitive in the international market. This is because if other industries in comparable countries like France and Germany are revolutionizing their work using AI, Italian companies will slow in productivity, and even given the ethical concerns Italy raises (for example the "lack of transparency is the real problem" claimed by Johanna Björklund), in the hypercompetitive market it will be impossible for Italy to come close to matching other companies.

I liked this reflection and I think that it is definitely important to understand that temporal predictions like the one you mentioned about COVID are unrealistic. I think that I personally would be more content knowing that my prediction has a large confidence interval but that I know exactly what percent confidence interval it is rather than getting a point estimate with very high uncertainty. I think that it would have been very interesting to see challenging perspectives on the subjects. It would be cool to see what other options there are to predicting COVID.