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  • Making fossils move to build better robots

    Aja Carter, a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology, builds robots based on fossilized animals that crawled out of the sea about 300 million years ago. She’s pioneering a new field that she calls paleo-bio-inspired robotics.
    Making extinct dinosaurs move to build better robots
    In Peter Dodson’s lab, Aja Carter and Dodson detail the process used to make prehistoric creatures move for the first time in hundreds of millions of years.

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  • OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech
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    OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Google vary widely in identifying hate speech

    Neil Fasching and Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication have found dramatic differences in how large language models classify hate speech, with especially large variations for language about certain demographic groups, raising concerns about bias and disproportionate harm.

    Sep 10, 2025