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Cambridge’s COVID experiment at giving poor families $500 month will continue, and grow

Amy Beth Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that Massachusetts is an ideal laboratory for guaranteed income programs.

Cambridge tries giving thousands of low-income residents money, no strings attached

The Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the School of Social Policy & Practice is studying 30 guaranteed income programs around the country, with commentary by Amy Beth Castro.

The future of MBAs: What deans at the top business schools are saying

Nicolaj Siggelkow of the Wharton School discusses the priorities and future of the MBA program, as well as the challenges facing current MBA students.

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People and Places at Penn: Makerspaces

Hands-on learning fosters creativity, creates opportunities for collaboration, and feels good. Education Commons, the Precision Machining Laboratory, and Tangen Hall all offer space for students to get their hands dirty.

An academic used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation that helped a student win a prestigious scholarship from Cambridge

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that he requires his students to use ChatGPT to generate project ideas and improve their writing.

CEO is so worried about remote workers using A.I. and doing multiple jobs he threatens to increase quotas by ‘30 to 50 times our normal production’

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School found that it would take a human team 30 days of work to match what A.I. tools could accomplish on a 30-minute business project.

What to know about Dominion, the voting machine company suing Fox

A report from the Wharton School found that the three major elections technology vendors served more than 90 percent of eligible voters in the country as of 2016.

In one California city, offering free cash helped fight poverty and COVID

A report co-authored by Amy Beth Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice found that a $500 stipend in Stockton, California, permitted judiciousness about COVID and what conditions workers would tolerate for poorly compensated work.

The robots have finally come for my job

According to a study by researchers from the Wharton School and Open AI, the occupations most vulnerable to generative AI include mathematicians, interpreters, web designers, and journalists.

Penn’s SAFELab sits at the intersection of technology and social work

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton, founder and director of the SAFELab, discusses the initiative’s research on grief, gun violence, and social media as well as its new space at the Pennovation Center.

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