Artificial Intelligence

AI is taking jobs: Could universal basic income become a reality?

Benjamin Lockwood of the Wharton School says the jobs most in danger of displacement by AI are those involving repetitive tasks.

The Wharton School launches Master of Science in Quantitative Finance with $60M gift from Bruce I. Jacobs

The transformational donation is the largest single gift in the School’s history.

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Philadelphia area woman believes AI helped her fight health insurance denial

Counterforce Health is an AI platform that creates customized appeals letters based on insurance and is free through grants from Penn Medicine.

AI models are struggling to identify hate speech, study finds

Yphtach Lelkes of the Annenberg School for Communication led research showing that AI is inconsistent in its ability to classify what counts as hate speech.

A human face with three deepfakes above it.

Deepfakes, digital doubles, and the law: Jennifer Rothman on protecting identity in the AI era

The evolution of AI technology may require more robust copyright laws and guardrails that protect people’s control of their own identities, says the Penn Carey Law professor.

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Lauren Nelson Hyppolite: Supporting AL research and collaboration

Lauren Nelson Hyppolite supports innovative AI education, connecting students to learning opportunities and amplifying faculty research to industry leaders.

Betty Chandy speaking into a microphone with AI In Schools on the white board behind her.

Philly teachers get a class PASS

Penn’s Graduate School of Education pilots “Pioneering AI in School Systems” for Philadelphia school district partners.

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Researchers studied how Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek identify hate speech. Here’s how they vary

A study by Yphtach Lelkes and doctoral student Neil Fasching of the Annenberg School for Communication finds that different AI models produce different definitions of hate speech for the same content, undermining consistency and predictability.

Pranam Chatterjee in his lab at Penn Engineering.

A generative AI model that designs new antibiotics

A research team at Penn Engineering has developed and validated a new ‘diffusion model’ that can generate antibiotic candidates the same way AI creates images.