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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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July 2023 set to be world’s hottest month on record
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the record warmth of July indicates a planet that will continue to warm as long as people burn fossil fuels.
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Why are gas prices going up again?
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the solution to the increase in global temperatures is to quickly transition to cleaner sources of power.
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Study: Key Atlantic Ocean circulation could shut down by mid-century
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that key Atlantic currents could shut down in decades rather than a century.
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In age of AI, women battle rise of deepfake porn
Sophie Maddocks of the Annenberg School for Communication says that the rise of AI-generated and deepfake porn normalizes the use of a woman’s image or likeness without her consent.
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The highly skilled jobs being replaced by AI
A Penn study helped identify dozens of jobs which were judged by job site Adzuna to be the most exposed to AI replacement.
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We are living through Earth’s hottest month on record, scientists say
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that it would take truly dramatic cooling in the waning days of the month to offset the warmth observed over the past few weeks.
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GOP’s Steve Scalise flubs call for ‘honest’ talk about climate
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that climate change-fueled extreme weather events are here, not far away in the Antarctic and not off in the future.
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Greenland was once actually green, study says. That’s an ominous climate change scenario
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that humanity is coming perilously close to some potentially critical climate tipping points.
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Dragonfly wings used to design lighter, stronger and ‘greener’ Boeing 777 wings
Masoud Akbarzadeh of the Weitzman School of Design and Weitzman alum Hao Zheng are studying dragonfly wings to redesign the wings of a Boeing 777.
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Benefits and risks of AI
Cary Coglianese of Penn Carey Law and Michael Kearns of the School of Engineering and Applied Science discuss the origins, definition, and future of artificial intelligence.