Cicero Institute
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America's best days are ahead. We’re fighting for transparency and accountability in government where innovative ideas win. Founded by @JTLonsdale.
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A 37-year-old man with a rare blood disease was being sent to hospice.
An AI model searched thousands of existing drugs and ranked a combination no one had tried for his condition.
He responded within a week. He is in remission.
The drugs were already on the shelf. The AI model found the match.
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$1.3 TRILLION in improper payments has been reported by federal agencies from 2020 to 2025, per GAO.
Under federal law, an "improper payment" includes:
•Payments that should not have been made
•Payments in the wrong amount
•Payments to ineligible recipients
•Duplicate payments
•Payments for goods or services never received
GAO estimates the government loses between $233 and $521 BILLION every year to fraud alone — a figure Treasury Secretary Bessent has cited as up to 10% of the entire federal budget.
The fix: radical transparency — track every dollar and outcome in public, set clear metrics, audit performance, claw back misspent funds, and shift resources to what works.
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An infant at Stanford's children's hospital was deteriorating despite multiple open-heart surgeries. His heart was failing — and no scan could explain why.
An AI-powered MRI found what no other imaging could see. Surgeons fixed it. The child recovered.
His surgeon: the diagnosis "would have been nearly impossible" without it.
The same AI has cut kids' MRI exams from an HOUR to 10 minutes — many children now skip anesthesia entirely.
This is what's at stake in the AI debate.
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