4/22
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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AI will change work, for better and worse
Sonny Tambe of the Wharton School says that AI is a useful tool for most people, not an existential threat.
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Media companies cut thousands of jobs so far this year. They're not coming back
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the ad-revenue business model for journalism has collapsed and can’t be replaced with paywalls.
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Generative AI is having a throw-everything-at-the-wall moment
Stefano Puntoni of the Wharton School says that experimenting with different generative AI products will inevitably help the best rise to the top, while the worst will fall to the wayside.
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Most Americans flunk when it comes to retirement literacy, study finds
Rachel M. Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, Wharton School, and Perelman School of Medicine says that the U.S. lacks any sort of comprehensive approach to funding for long-term care.
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Energy consumption ‘to dramatically increase’ because of AI
Research co-authored by Benjamin C. Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science showed that data center energy usage grew 25% a year on average between 2015 and 2021.
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Meta bets big on Gen Z gold rush with new AI features
Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that Gen Z is likely to be the biggest adopter of generative AI.
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What Amazon’s up to $4B commitment to Anthropic could mean for AI space
Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on how investing in artificial intelligence is a strategic move.
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Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt
Researchers at the Wharton School estimated that the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan would have cost U.S. taxpayers between $300 billion and $980 billion over 10 years.
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Fifteen states with the biggest drug problems in 2023
Research from Penn shows that America has spent more than a trillion dollars on the “War Against Drugs” since 1971.
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Wharton dean explains how bad bosses can create ‘rifts’ in culture
On an episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” Dean Erika James of the Wharton School explains how bad bosses can damage company culture.