Artificial Intelligence

The most important skill in the AI era? Taste, says a Wharton expert

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says, as the AI shift happens, “having a sense of style actually matters.”

Penn researchers are using AI and social media to assess drug side effects

Neil Sehgal of the School of Engineering and Applied Science authored a study using AI to mine Reddit threads to evaluate the safety and side effects of prescription drugs.

Why the AI job apocalypse (probably) won’t happen

The A.I. test for Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is: Is it better than your best available human?

Informal research ties ‘more important’ than co-authorship

Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication says her research shows how “we are likely underrepresenting how much we rely on ‘helpful colleagues’” and that it “takes a village to produce research with impact.”

How Wharton prepares business leaders in the AI era

Wharton’s Artificial Intelligence for Business MBA major and undergraduate concentration curriculum combines technical fluency, ethical reasoning, and real-world application converge.

AI slop is flooding academic journals. A top journal measured it

Claudine Gartenberg of the Wharton School says, “I use Claude Code and Codex all day long. Every aspect of my research program over the last year.”

Is your AI ethical, human-centered and pro-social?

Cornelia C. Walther of the Wharton School notes that pro-social AI is “not just about making AI more helpful or ethical. It’s about creating technology that is simultaneously pro-people, pro-planet, and pro-potential.”

Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests

A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built CAMEL, an artificial intelligence model that forecasts dangerous cardiac rhythms before they strike. Their findings pave the way for a new era of real-time, predictive heart care.

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Political campaigns have no idea what’s about to hit them

Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication writes about the use of A.I. in politics.

You’re not using ChatGPT wrong—you’re using it too narrowly

Rahul Kapoor of the Wharton School writes, “The breakthrough of [LLMs] is an invention. The harder challenge is innovation: turning that invention into products, services, and business models that create value for customers and allow firms to capture a meaningful share of that value themselves.”

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