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

Why is Machine Learning Trending in Medical Research but not in Our Doctor’s Offices?

Konrad Kording's new Community for Rigor aims to communicate that just because incorporating machine learning into biomedical research can introduce room for bias doesn’t mean scientists should avoid it. They just need to understand how to use it in a meaningful way.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Social Norms for Algorithms

Social conformity in pandemics: How our behaviors spread faster than the virus itself

Researchers led by Erol Akçay and former postdoc Bryce Morsky have produced a model for disease transmission that factors in the effects of social dynamics, specifically, how masking and social distancing are affected by social norms.

Biology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Can anyone predict the future of cryptocurrency right now?

“The crypto space changes so rapidly that making predictions is always dangerous,” says Kevin Werbach, who sees the absence of an explicit legal framework in the U.S. as a key challenge. for the future of the blockchain and digital-asset industry.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Regulating Machine Learning

Cary Coglianese’s recent paper, “Regulating Machine Learning: The Challenge of Heterogeneity,” published by Competition Policy International, argues that because machine-learning algorithms are so dissimilar and diverse—that is, they are heterogeneous—figuring out the best way to regulate their use will be challenging.

Law
Political Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Moore than meets the eye: The evolution of computing

Benjamin C. Lee shares five things to know about the evolution of microchips and how Gordon Moore’s scaling laws set the pace for making our devices faster, cheaper, and smaller.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

Responsible AI in the generative era

Generative AI raises new challenges in defining, measuring, and mitigating concerns about fairness, toxicity, and intellectual property, among other things. But work has started on the solutions, writes Michael Kearns for Amazon Science.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Duncan Watts elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Duncan Watts, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for his distinguished and continued contributions to original research.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Instead of Refuting Misinformation Head-On, Try “Bypassing” It

A new study from Dolores Albarracín has found that redirecting an individual’s attention away from misinformation and toward other beliefs can be just as effective as debunking it.

Communication
Health Management
Nursing
Psychology

Consensus and Contagion in Society