Benefits and risks of AI | 42 years caring for Fairmount Park’s trees

AI is increasingly a part of our lives: it can beneficial, like using a smart speaker - and risky, like deep fakes becoming more difficult to distinguish from reality. Cary Coglianese and Michael Kearns help us understand what artificial intelligence is, where it came from, and where it is going.

Computer and Information Science
Law
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Euclid Space Telescope launches exciting new possibilities

The European Space Agency’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023. Bhuvnesh Jain discusses the coming research findings from the Euclid Space Telescope.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

How ‘Resilient Marketing’ Can Prepare Businesses for the Next Disruption

A new e-book by experts at Wharton and McKinsey, including Warren Center affiliate Raghu Iyengar, offers guidelines to help marketers grapple with today’s challenges and make their organizations better prepared for the next major economic disruption.

Marketing

Resilience in Networked Systems

Research Identifies Factors That Make Correcting Misinformation About Science More Successful

A new study from Dolores Albarracín and Research Associate Man-pui Sally Chan explains the circumstances under which corrections of misinformation about science are most likely to work or fail, as well as the characteristics of the corrections most likely to succeed.

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Omnia 101: Generative AI

Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway, co-directors of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative, explain ChatGPT and generative AI, and what this technology means for learning and education.

Criminology
Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

How to Make Flying Less Terrible

Flight delays and cancellations always increase during the peak summer travel months. But this summer, airlines are also battling with staff and tech issues, and weather disruptions could make things worse, writes Gad Allon in his recent Slate op-ed.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

AI For the Antitrust Regulator

Cary Coglianese lays out the potential, and the considerations, for antitrust regulators to use machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Law
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Mathematical model that ‘changed everything’ turns 25

In 1998, Steven Strogatz and Duncan Watts proposed a mathematical model that would not only provide a way of seeing and understanding a wide range of networks, but would mobilize scientific communities across disciplines to turn toward their study. The work ushered in the modern era of network science.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Resilience in Networked Systems

What Makes News Get Shared Widely? The Answer Is in Your Head.

Why do some social media posts get shared widely, while others go unnoticed? A new study from Emily Falk's Communication Neuroscience Lab suggests that targeting self-and-social areas of the brain encourages information sharing online.

Communication
Marketing
Psychology

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

The Growth and Impact of Generative AI

On the the premiere episode of Penn Engineering's "Innovation & Impact" podcast, Michael Kearns, Chris Callison-Burch, and Robert Ghrist discuss the growth and impact of generative AI.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Social Norms for Algorithms