Featured series 
Tag: A.I.
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Health
Riskier to know — or not to know — you’re predisposed to a disease?
‘DNA isn’t a crystal ball for every kind of illness’ but potential benefits outweigh fears, says geneticist
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Science & Tech
Can AI be as irrational as we are? (Or even more so?)
Psychologists found OpenAI’s GPT-4o showing humanlike patterns of cognitive dissonance, sensitivity to free choice
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Health
Got emotional wellness app? It may be doing more harm than good.
Study sees mental health risks, suggests regulators take closer look as popularity rises amid national epidemic of loneliness, isolation
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Nation & World
Brainwashing? Like ‘The Manchurian Candidate’?
More than vestige of Cold War, mind-control techniques remain with us in social media, cults, AI, elsewhere, new book argues
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Arts & Culture
What good is writing anyway?
Scholars across range of disciplines weigh in on value of the activity amid rise of generative AI systems
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Campus & Community
‘Like we’re reaching a new period of human history’
Fascination with artificial intelligence pulls Muqtader Omari back to his scholarly first love: Science
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Campus & Community
After flying Apaches, she needed a new challenge
Lindsey Chrismon sets sights high from West Point to Harvard Business School
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Science & Tech
‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’
Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia
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Health
New AI tool predicts biological age by looking at a face
Deep-learning algorithm FaceAge uses snapshots, can help oncologists tailor treatments
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Campus & Community
Using the best GenAI has to offer
HUIT creates safe space to experiment, faculty share how they integrated it into their teaching
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Health
How young is too young? No such thing, apparently.
Specialist outlines impact of screen time on developing brains, from toddlerhood to teen years
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Science & Tech
Know how those tech moguls want us to go to Mars? Ignore them.
Astrophysicist says they may have more money than you, but they don’t know anything more about future than anyone else
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Arts & Culture
Future doesn’t have to be dystopian, says Ruha Benjamin
In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice
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Science & Tech
Like having a personal healthcare coach in your pocket
New apps for cancer patients, cannabis users, others make use of algorithms that continually customize support
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Campus & Community
Panelists look at challenges, opportunities of GAI tools
New initiative advances conversations about role of AI
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Health
Machine healing
Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, experts say. Are we?
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Arts & Culture
Science? Yes. Fiction? Maybe.
Sci-fi books recommended by faculty, staff probe AI, humanity, censorship
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Campus & Community
Telling apples from Apples
Harvard Library search tool will understand intent behind the terms
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Work & Economy
Is AI already shaking up labor market?
4 trends point to major change, say researchers who studied century of tech disruptions
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Health
It’s inoperable cancer. Should AI make call about what happens next?
Arrival of large-language models sparking discussion of how use of technology may be broadened in patient care, and what it means to be human
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Science & Tech
Even Bill Gates thinks AI is a little scary
Tech pioneer visits campus with his new memoir to discuss beauty of math, dropping out of College, founding Microsoft, value of curiosity
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Work & Economy
How to avoid really bad decisions. (Hint: One tip is just hit pause.)
Business ethicist details ways to analyze complex, thorny issues, legal gray areas, and offers advice we can all use
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Health
New frontiers in cancer care
In podcast, experts discuss breakthroughs in treatment, from genomic sequencing to AI, and how close we are to personalized vaccines
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Science & Tech
Kempner AI cluster named one of world’s fastest ‘green’ supercomputers
Computational power can be used to train and run artificial neural networks, creates key advances in understanding basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems
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Health
Cutting through the fog of long COVID
Researchers say new AI tool sharpens diagnostic process, may help identify more people needing care
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Arts & Culture
Bot’s literary analysis wasn’t ‘brilliantly original’ — is that beside the point?
Writers Claire Messud, Laura Kipnis debate AI’s merits as a reading companion
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Campus & Community
FAS creates new professorships in civil discourse and AI
Gift from business leader Alfred Lin ’94 and artist Rebecca Lin ’94, part of record 30th reunion giving, builds on critical new efforts on dialogue and generative AI
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Science & Tech
When we say ‘smart,’ what do we mean?
Computer scientist says we should shift focus to ‘educability’
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Work & Economy
Generative AI embraced faster than internet, PCs
Study finds nearly 40 percent of Americans have used technology for tasks at work and at home
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Campus & Community
How to make social media, online life less of ‘dumpster fire’
A panel led by Berkman Klein Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain discusses the mess of social networks and how to fix it.
