Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants
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Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed

Meet Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

He works for chemical corporations such as DuPont, Dow, Bayer and Chevron. He is paid to criticize scientists and cast doubts about pollutants.

Previous to working for DuPont, Dow, and Bayer, Tony Cox worked for Philip Morris

Of course, Tony denies that. Tony claims it’s just a coincidence that he only happens to defend the corporations paying him 🙃🙃🙃

Recently, Tony Cox sent an email to his corporate clients. He came up with a new idea. Using Artificial Intelligence.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Louis Anthony “Tony” Cox Jr, a Denver-based risk analyst and former Trump adviser who once reportedly claimed there is no proof that cleaning air saves lives, is developing an AI application to scan academic research for what he sees as the false conflation of correlation with causation.

    Cox has described the project as an attempt to weed “propaganda” out of epidemiological research and perform “critical thinking at scale” in emails to industry researchers, which were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by the Energy and Policy Institute, a non-profit advocacy group, and exclusively reviewed by the Guardian.