Artificial Intelligence

AI is good, we swear! Trust us!

David Reibstein of the Wharton School comments on AI labs and Meta’s recent ad promoting AI.

Study examines AI chat bot bias, how it responds to prompts

"It understands like what you read and who you are personally. So it tries to adjust itself to be more helpful for you," says Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences about chatbot bias.

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Would you trust AI for ethical advice?

Most people would not prefer to take ethical advice from a computer, but a new Wharton study shows how attitudes change when users see how good AI guidance can be.

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AI is eroding the skill your paycheck depends on

Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw of the Wharton School introduced the concept of "cognitive surrender."

The hidden cost of using AI at work: You may be training yourself to be average

Americus Reed of the Wharton School suggests that workers try to “remember that adopting AI is not the same as outsourcing your identity.”

Soaking up the sun

A roundup of stories from Penn Today on solar innovation and protection.

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TIME100 Creators 2026

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School is listed as a TIME100 Creator 2026 for his work teaching people interested in learning more about AI.

Virtual patients, real-world training

Researchers from Penn’s Linguistic Data Consortium have received a two-year, $4 million grant to collaborate on STELLAR (Steering-Vector Enhanced LLM Agents for Realistic Digital Twins in Mental Health), an AI-driven simulation of virtual patients that allows trainees to practice clinical interviews.

A crash course in AI

Early this summer, some 75 faculty members across several Penn Schools attended a two-day program led by Bhuvnesh Jain, co-director of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative and Co-Chair of the University’s AI Council.

Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price

Alp Sungu of the Wharton School led a study finding that AI in the classroom can undermine teaching, saying, “students use AI as an answer machine, not as a tool for learning, and therefore it harms learning.”

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