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Guardrails versus leashes: Finding a better way to regulate AI technology

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Guardrails versus leashes: Finding a better way to regulate AI technology

With artificial intelligence evolving faster than human imagination, traditional avenues of regulation may not work as well as they have for other business sectors.To safely and efficiently oversee AI, governments need to turn to a more flexible system, not immovable guardrails but more adjustable “leashes,” Penn Carey Law professor Cary Coglianese writes in a new article.

3 min. read

Wharton’s deep dive into wellness at work
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Wharton’s deep dive into wellness at work

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” explores whether workplace wellness programs have the desired effect, social media connections and boundaries, and work/life balance over the years.

From Knowledge at Wharton

3 min. read

Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom
Sosena Solomon on stage during a Q&A at the Met with two other people.

Sosena Solomon participated in a panel conversation at The Met on May 31 with international co-hosts for the Arts of Africa: Jonathan Nsubuga, chief architect of JE Nsubuga and Associates, and Fasil Giorghis, associate professor of architecture and the chair of conservation of urban and architectural heritage at the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development.

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Bringing museum filmmaking into the classroom

Filmmaker Sosena Solomon taught Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions amid filming in Africa for a Metropolitan Museum of Art redesign. The Arts of Africa galleries just reopened, including in-gallery and online films Solomon shot in 12 countries.

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Can a machine be considered an author?

Can a machine be considered an author?

Experts at Penn Libraries shed light on the fact that there has been little guidance from either the courts or Congress on the many copyright issues that generative AI raises, until now. Recently, two different courts published decisions in cases involving AI tools.

New class of materials passively harvest water from air
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New class of materials passively harvest water from air

Researchers at Penn Engineering have discovered a new class of nanostructured materials that can pull water from the air, which could enable new ways to collect water in arid regions and devices that cool electronics or buildings using the power of evaporation.

Melissa Pappas

2 min. read

Sparking curiosity for better learning and better lives
Xinyi Wang.

Xinyi Wang is a member of Annenberg’s Addiction, Health, & Adolescence Lab and the Communication Neuroscience Lab.

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Sparking curiosity for better learning and better lives

Annenberg School for Communication doctoral graduate Xinyi Wang studies how people actively seek out and engage with new information.

Hailey Reissman

2 min. read

Modupe Coker named Fellow of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine

Modupe Coker named Fellow of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine

Coker, an associate professor in the Department of Basic and Translational Sciences at Penn Dental Medicine, is among 100 fellows from across the country selected for the 2025-2026 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program. Hosted by Drexel University College of Medicine, ELAM is dedicated to preparing women for senior leadership roles in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.

Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past
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Trials aim to make cancer relapse a thing of the past

At Penn Medicine, clinical trials are testing methods that may stop cancer from recurring.

Kirsten Weir for Penn Medicine Magazine

6 min. read

Unlocking the mechanics of protein misfolding
Artist's interpretation of prion mechanics.

Mathieu Ouellet

Unlocking the mechanics of protein misfolding

An interdisciplinary team led by School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Lee C. Bassett and Dani Bassett, also of the School of Arts & Sciences, have studied the mechanical properties of prions, the mysterious shape-shifting proteins that are infamous for mad cow disease yet essential for yeast survival

5 min. read

Determining the cause of cryopreservation fertility failures
Spermatogenesis at a microscopic level

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Determining the cause of cryopreservation fertility failures

A new study from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine on germ cell gene regulatory networks offers a holistic understanding of complex male germ cell differentiation in meiosis and spermatogenesis.

Martin Hackett

2 min. read