Why our brains are so good at seeing causality (and what AI requires to catch up)

Why is the human brain so good at interpreting causation? What can neuroscience teach us about causality that can help AI and vice versa? What’s at stake? To answer these pressing questions, CIFAR asked Konrad Kording for his thoughts.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

How Can We Meet the AI Moment?

Eric Bradlow discusses the launch of the new Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative and how generative AI can be leveraged in education, business, and society to enhance our lives on this episode of the Knowledge at Wharton Podcast.

Marketing

Social Norms for Algorithms

Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

The Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab), which Duncan Watts founded and leads, has launched their Media Bias Detector, providing media consumers an unprecedented level of detail in understanding how news outlets from across the ideological spectrum stack up against one another.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Robin Pemantle Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Robin Pemantle, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive, NAS membership recognizes distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Mathematics

Ubiquity of Data

The Law & Society Association’s 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize

The Law & Society Association has awarded the 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize to Tom Baker for his “continuing and most distinguished theoretical-empirical contributions to the advancement of law and society research.”

Law

Ubiquity of Data

Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering

How did Penn Engineering become a leader in AI? It began with the support of philanthropically minded alumni and friends of Penn Engineering like Rajendra Singh, Harlan Stone and Warren Center Founding Donor Fred Warren.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

According to a new paper by Warren Center faculty affiliate Duncan Watts and others, factual, vaccine-skeptical content on Facebook has a greater overall effect than “fake news,” discouraging millions from getting the COVID-19 shot.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

The Wharton School establishes Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative

In an initiative that includes strategic investment in artificial intelligence research and teaching, Wharton announces the first business school collaboration with OpenAI. The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative will be led by Warren Center affiliate Eric Bradlow.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Penn Engineering and Harvard Awarded $12 Million NSF Grant for Sustainable Computing Project

Penn and Harvard have been awarded $12 million for NSF Expeditions in Computing: Carbon Connect — An Ecosystem for Sustainable Computing, which will be led by Benjamin Lee and David Brooks, and will redefine the way computer scientists approach environmental sustainability.

Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

The Wharton Moneyball Podcast Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary

Wharton Moneyball, the popular Sirius XM radio show hosted by several Warren Center faculty affiliates, celebrated its 10-year anniversary this March, marking a decade of insightful, free-flowing, and data-backed conversations about the world of sports and statistics.

Marketing
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

News

Why our brains are so good at seeing causality (and what AI requires to catch up)

How Can We Meet the AI Moment?

Mapping Media Bias: How AI Powers the Computational Social Science Lab’s Media Bias Detector

Robin Pemantle Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The Law & Society Association’s 2024 Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize

Investing in Innovation: Philanthropy Powers AI Education at Penn Engineering

Reexamining Misinformation: How Unflagged, Factual Content Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

The Wharton School establishes Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative

Penn Engineering and Harvard Awarded $12 Million NSF Grant for Sustainable Computing Project

The Wharton Moneyball Podcast Celebrates its 10-Year Anniversary