Artificial Intelligence

How pioneering boards are using AI

In a co-written article, Valery Yakubovich of the Wharton School explains how board directors are using AI to help prepare, debate, and make decisions

AI risks ‘broken’ career ladder for college graduates, some experts say

Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says that generative AI is breaking the traditional career ladder for recent college graduates.

Guardrails versus leashes: Finding a better way to regulate AI technology

With artificial intelligence evolving faster than human imagination, traditional avenues of regulation may not work as well as they have for other business sectors.To safely and efficiently oversee AI, governments need to turn to a more flexible system, not immovable guardrails but more adjustable “leashes,” Penn Carey Law professor Cary Coglianese writes in a new article.

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The psychology of AI persuasion

Cornelia C. Walther of the Wharton School explains how AI chatbots manipulate the brain’s preference for information that feels familiar and effortless to process.

This Philadelphia doctor’s story of saving his own life is being made into a movie: ‘I almost died five times’

David Fajgenbaum and his team at Penn Medicine are repurposing existing medications with the help of artificial intelligence to treat rare diseases, a venture that began with Fajgenbaum’s own self-treatment for Castleman’s disease.

Penn students innovate in the time of AI

Students from schools across the University are putting knowledge into practice, asking deep questions and finding innovative uses for AI tools.

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Satellite image of Hurricane Helene, 2006

Cost-effective, lifesaving weather predictions

Penn professor Paris Perdikaris and collaborators developed Aurora, a machine-learning model that has predictive capabilities for air quality, ocean waves, tropical cyclone tracks, and weather.

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A.I. is poised to revolutionize weather forecasting. A new tool shows promise

Paris Perdikaris of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and collaborators at Microsoft Research have created Aurora, a low-cost AI model that can predict a wide range of environmental events.

Is empathy required in the age of AI — or can we just outsource it?

Lynn Wu of the Wharton School says that machine-generated data produces worse content than human data when it’s fed into an AI algorithm, causing the output of generative AI to gradually degrade when it relies solely on itself.

Trading bots are evolving: What happens when AI cheats the market?

Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School discusses problems in the regulation of AI trading bots.

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