Artificial Intelligence

Business schools ease their resistance to AI

Christian Terwiesch of the Wharton School found that ChatGPT outperformed some students in his operations management class.

Google’s Gemini robotics AI model reaches into the physical world

A team of roboticists at Penn showed that “jailbreaks” can cause AI models to misbehave, with unexpected and serious consequences when the model operates a robot.

Combining AI and artmaking for youth well-being

Through a community-led partnership project, graduate student Eileen Feng and an interdisciplinary, cross-school team are working with local youth to tailor an AI-supported platform for healing through creative arts.

How long will AI’s free-trial ERA last?

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that the generative AI industry has alternated directionally between moving more AI tools behind paywalls and making everything free by default.

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‘Ripple Effect’ asks ‘Who benefits from innovations?’

The latest installments of The Wharton School’s faculty research podcast, ‘Ripple Effect,’ delves into transformative innovations and their effect on the populations they reach.

Exploring the role of AI in palliative care and decision-making

Working with professors George Demiris and Connie Ulrich, Penn Nursing Ph.D. student Oonjee Oh is investigating the role of AI in end-of-life care from technological and ethical perspectives.

Algorithms drive management-free workplaces

Lindsey Cameron of the Wharton School says that a lack of direct human oversight can be both freeing and frustrating for workers.

DeepSeek AI banned from all Pa. Treasury-issued devices

Researchers from Cisco and the School of Engineering and Applied Science found that DeepSeek’s AI model R1 failed to block malicious prompts in security tests, exposing major safety flaws.

Rachel Liu sitting at a counter with her laptop.

‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat

At Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant that fields students’ syllabus questions, generates assignment feedback, and eases the stress of instructors’ and TAs’ emailing schedules.

Should generative AI tools be restricted in the workplace over security?

According to a report by security researchers from Penn and hardware conglomerate Cisco, DeepSeek’s AI model is vulnerable to jailbreaking.

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