Innovation

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People and Places at Penn: Makerspaces

Hands-on learning fosters creativity, creates opportunities for collaboration, and feels good. Education Commons, the Precision Machining Laboratory, and Tangen Hall all offer space for students to get their hands dirty.

Business Insider

An academic used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation that helped a student win a prestigious scholarship from Cambridge

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that he requires his students to use ChatGPT to generate project ideas and improve their writing.

Fortune

CEO is so worried about remote workers using A.I. and doing multiple jobs he threatens to increase quotas by ‘30 to 50 times our normal production’

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School found that it would take a human team 30 days of work to match what A.I. tools could accomplish on a 30-minute business project.

The New York Times

What to know about Dominion, the voting machine company suing Fox

A report from the Wharton School found that the three major elections technology vendors served more than 90 percent of eligible voters in the country as of 2016.

CBS MoneyWatch

In one California city, offering free cash helped fight poverty and COVID

A report co-authored by Amy Beth Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice found that a $500 stipend in Stockton, California, permitted judiciousness about COVID and what conditions workers would tolerate for poorly compensated work.

The Wall Street Journal

The robots have finally come for my job

According to a study by researchers from the Wharton School and Open AI, the occupations most vulnerable to generative AI include mathematicians, interpreters, web designers, and journalists.

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Penn’s SAFELab sits at the intersection of technology and social work

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton, founder and director of the SAFELab, discusses the initiative’s research on grief, gun violence, and social media as well as its new space at the Pennovation Center.

A revolutionary TEDxPenn

From designing robots to directing award-winning films, 10 speakers across a broad array of disciplines shared insight into their life’s work at Saturday’s four-hour TEDxPenn conference on campus.

The New York Times

How should I use A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT?

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School recommends using A.I. to provide momentum by overcoming writer’s block or getting a running start on hard projects.

Miami Herald

Levi’s newest ‘diverse’ model doesn’t exist in the flesh—and critics aren’t happy

Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that the public isn’t ready for the social implications of being able to spoof people at scale with AI.

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