Artificial Intelligence

Anthropomorphizing AI

Artificial intelligence doesn’t make decisions like a human, but according to research from Arts & Sciences economics professor Kevin He, people seem to think it does.

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AI and the dream: Technology in the service of humanity

An event titled “AI and the Dream: Technology in Service of Humanity,” part of Penn’s annual MLK Symposium, highlighted many of the ethical questions raised by AI systems. “Dr. King warned us that our technological means can outpace our moral ends,” said Valerie Dorsey-Allen, director of the AARC. “As AI rapidly reshapes education, work, health care and civic life, we’re being asked some very real questions: Who is the technology serving? Who is being left out? And who gets to decide?”

What AI executives tell their own kids about the jobs of the future

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School looks at the future of AI.

Pennsylvania Commission releases report on current and potential impact of AI across the Commonwealth

Penn Carey Law professor Cary Coglianese served on the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission’s Advisory Committee on artificial intelligence, which delivered policy recommendations to state lawmakers.

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AI’s biggest problem isn’t intelligence. It’s implementation

A study from the Wharton School found that three out of four enterprise leaders “reported positive returns on AI investments, and 88% plan to increase spending in the next year.”

AI and the future of the legal profession

Penn Carey Law hosted a forum on AI and the practice of law, bringing together professors, legal practitioners, business leaders, and students.

What is Alpha, the AI-only school of the future?

Hamsa Bastani of the Wharton School comments on AI tutoring vs. human instruction.

Trillion-dollar AI market wipeout happened because investors banked that ‘almost every tech company would come out a winner’

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School discusses AI and the stock market.

The scientist using AI to hunt for antibiotics just about everywhere

César de la Fuente of the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and School of Arts & Sciences is training AI tools to search genomes for peptides with antibiotic properties.

Shreya Parchure, an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Penn, conducts much of her AI-driven research in the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation, focusing on ways to personalize speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

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Leveraging AI to help stroke survivors recover speech abilities

Doctoral student Shreya Parchure and her team evaluated the usefulness of an AI tool for personalizing speech therapy for patients with post-stroke aphasia.

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