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Artificial Intelligence
Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being
Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being
Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.
‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’
‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’
The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.
Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making
Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making
Working with professors George Demiris and Connie Ulrich, Penn Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh is investigating the role of AI in end-of-life care from technological and ethical perspectives.
‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat
‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat
At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.
The social structures that shape AI
The social structures that shape AI
There’s more hype than ever around artificial intelligence, but Assistant Professor of Sociology Benjamin Shestakofsky says it’s important to fully examine how the new technology fits into broader society.
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
Penn Center for Innovation celebrates 10 years
The University’s nexus for technology transfer supports researchers in their innovative efforts, from CAR T to mRNA advancements that have dramatically reshaped the world.
The future of nursing care
The future of nursing care
Faculty at Penn’s School of Nursing have created a clinical decision support early warning system that accurately detects patient deterioration.
Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics
Fruit fly development offers insights into condensed matter physics
Penn Physicist Andrea Liu and collaborators modeled the behavior of tissue during a stage of fly development and found, surprisingly, it doesn’t fluidize as it shrinks but stays solid. Their approach could offer insights physical systems with complex functionality.
How are companies really using AI?
How are companies really using AI?
Wharton’s Stefano Puntoni talks about the key findings of a new report that reveals a seismic shift in firms’ attitudes and uses of AI in just a short time.
Giving robots superhuman vision using radio signals
Giving robots superhuman vision using radio signals
Engineers have developed a new tool to transform simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the environment.
In the News
Wired
Google’s Gemini robotics AI model reaches into the physical world
A team of roboticists at Penn showed that “jailbreaks” can cause AI models to misbehave, with unexpected and serious consequences when the model operates a robot.
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New York Magazine
How Long Will AI’s Free-Trial Era Last?
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that the generative AI industry has alternated directionally between moving more AI tools behind paywalls and making everything free by default.
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Forbes
Algorithms drive management-free workplaces
Lindsey Cameron of the Wharton School says that a lack of direct human oversight can be both freeing and frustrating for workers.
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Pennsylvania Capital Star
DeepSeek AI banned from all Pa. Treasury-issued devices
Researchers from Cisco and the School of Engineering and Applied Science found that DeepSeek’s AI model R1 failed to block malicious prompts in security tests, exposing major safety flaws.
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Yahoo! News
Should generative AI tools be restricted in the workplace over security?
According to a report by security researchers from Penn and hardware conglomerate Cisco, DeepSeek’s AI model is vulnerable to jailbreaking.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philly schools could be on the forefront of using AI. Here’s what that means
Penn has partnered with the Philadelphia School District to launch a pilot program to train teachers and administrators on how best to integrate artificial intelligence in city schools, featuring remarks from L. Michael Golden of the Graduate School of Education.
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