Artificial Intelligence

A study by Shiri Melumad and Jin Ho Yun of the Wharton School found that people who used a traditional search engine to gather information developed deeper knowledge than those who relied on an AI chatbot.

Penn students are attending the Claude Builder Club, sponsored by AI company Anthropic, to create projects using artificial intelligence.

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the biggest risk with AI is whether the technology can be powered more cheaply than current scaling efforts.

Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says there’s a risk that data center energy costs are being distributed to the ratepayers and consumers in local communities.

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says the data infrastructure boom of the dot-com era is a useful analog to today's buildout.

Research by Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice suggests that wage growth could start to reverse as soon as roughly 37% of cognitive or “intelligence” tasks are automated.

A paper by PIK Professor Konrad Kording and Iona Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice suggests that the AI revolution may unfold like a classic boom-and-bust cycle in its effect on wages.