Artificial Intelligence

AI agents could change your life—if they don’t ruin it first

Speaking about AI, Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says, “The fact that you can interact with your computer in this totally new way and the fact that you can build anything, almost anything that you can imagine—it’s incredible.”

Powering AI from space, at scale

A new design for solar-powered data centers reduces weight, power consumption, and overall complexity, making large-scale deployment more feasible.

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Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India

Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care.

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A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising

Speaking about AI agents and their possible autonomy, Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says, “I suspect that it’s just going to be a fun little drama that peters out after too many bots try to sell bitcoin.”

Some big-name companies are laying off workers. Here’s what it means

Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says, “If you want to be at the forefront of AI, you have to learn how to use it efficiently.”

Did AI take your job? Or was your employer ‘AI-washing’?

Pater Cappelli of the Wharton School says, “Companies are saying that ‘we’re anticipating that we’re going to introduce A.I. that will take over these jobs.’ But it hasn’t happened yet. So that’s one reason to be skeptical.”

Penn GSE partners to launch $26M AI grants program advancing K–12 education

This new program will fund the development of openly shared datasets, models, and other digital resources so developers, school districts, and educators can build safe, effective, and equitable AI tools for K–12 teaching and learning.

How leaders can make unstructured data usable for GenAI—and maximize ROI

A 2025 report by the Wharton School found that 46% of business leaders now leverage Gen AI daily.

Why some hospitals are making their own ChatGPTs for patient records

Penn Medicine introduced a tool called Chart Hero that aims to cut patient-records by letting clinicians query and summarize the medical record with an artificial intelligence chatbot-like interface.

Retail’s risky AI commerce bet

According to Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School, AI agents’ owning of shopping data shifts power away from retailers.

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