Featured series 
Tag: A.I.
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Health
Predicting cancer outcomes with a selfie
Slower ‘face aging’ linked to better survival odds, according to second study of AI tool designed to aid precision care
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Arts & Culture
Want to avoid being replaced by AI? Think fresh verbs.
Former Pulitzer-winning Post dance critic explains how to level up writing in new book
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Science & Tech
‘Deskilling’ is bad. This is worse.
Authors of book about classroom AI see growing void where foundational knowledge used to be
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Campus & Community
Moved to act
Eco-friendly, AI, medical, and other inventions earn funds for President’s Innovation Challenge winners
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Health
Should you ask ChatGPT for medical advice?
Physician and AI researcher Adam Rodman says AI can be helpful but has some tips on how, when to use it safely
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Science & Tech
‘If you’re boring, it’s good to know that you’re being boring.’
The perils of seeking empathy from a chatbot
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Nation & World
Got personal financial, medical data you’d like to keep private? Good luck.
AI and society expert warns new agentic releases to increase odds cybercriminals, hackers will be able to breach secure systems
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Work & Economy
Single-minded pursuit of profit can get firms in trouble. Same thing with AI.
Researchers see lesson for lawmakers, executives as systems asked to run business, maximize gain resort to unethical, fraudulent tactics
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Science & Tech
Time for government, business leaders to figure out AI cybersecurity regulation
Experts say capabilities of agentic AI rising, along with risk to personal data, economy, national security
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Nation & World
‘This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education.’
Garber discusses threat to university-government partnership, AI, fighting bias on campus in talk at 92NY
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Work & Economy
Why are communities pushing back against data centers?
Tech, data policy expert says concerns legitimate over rising power rates, water use, environmental issues amid mushrooming growth
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Arts & Culture
Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees.
‘We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist says about new book
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Science & Tech
‘Vibe coding’ may offer insight into our AI future
Learning tech expert says it may take over writing software. Our job? Imagine possibilities, articulate what we want, evaluate.
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Nation & World
Social media firms lost two bellwether cases, but future remains unclear
Legal scholar on next move for tech giants, chances of ‘master settlement,’ more
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Science & Tech
Aramont Fellowships give scientists freedom to concentrate on high-risk, high-reward research
Renewed gift significantly expands the impact of early-career support
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Work & Economy
Economists weigh consequences of war, tariffs, AI
Panel voices concerns over possibility of large job losses, widespread global financial instability
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Health
Why mattering matters
Author of best-seller talks about power of feeling valued, asking for help — and how AI threatens core human need
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Health
Thymus may be critical to adult health
Research indicates often-overlooked organ can be key predictor in longevity, disease risk, cancer treatment outcomes
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Health
Why we need Black bioethics
Panel points to historical examples, including Tuskegee experiment, pandemic, and life expectancy inequities
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Science & Tech
Can a chatbot be a co-author?
Physicists take souped-up ChatGPT out for a spin, return home with significant discovery
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Science & Tech
Preserving learning in the age of AI shortcuts
In podcast, teachers talk about how they’re using technology to supercharge critical thinking rather than replace it
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Nation & World
What would the Founding Fathers think of TikTok?
Experts weigh national security concerns against free speech in discussion of video app’s future
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Science & Tech
When you do the math, humans still rule
Harvard’s Lauren Williams, a MacArthur ‘genius,’ joins international effort to challenge notions of AI supremacy
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Health
New AI tool predicts brain age, dementia risk, cancer survival
Unlike other AI models, BrainIAC needs limited data to ID key neurological health indicators
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Science & Tech
How AI deepfakes have skirted revenge porn laws
Limits unclear when explicit images of individuals look real, but are digitally generated
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Nation & World
What if we used AI to strengthen democracy?
Surveillance, control, propaganda aren’t the only options, says security technologist
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Health
Is a chatbot therapist better than nothing?
Experts discuss role of AI and other technology in future of mental health care
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Health
AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it?
Medical ethicist details need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines
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Science & Tech
Want to speed brain research? It’s all in how you look at it.
New AI-enhanced scanning method promises to boost quest for high-resolution mapping
