Featured series 
Tag: A.I.
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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.
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Science & Tech
Professor tailored AI tutor to physics course. Engagement doubled.
Preliminary findings inspire other large Harvard classes to test approach this fall
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Science & Tech
The answer to your search may depend on where you live
Researchers find ‘language bias’ in various site algorithms, raising concerns about fallout for social divisions among nations
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Nation & World
Lawyers reap big profits lobbying government regulators under the radar
Study exposes how banks sway policy from shadows, by targeting bureaucrats instead of politicians
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Science & Tech
Are you a human? Select all that apply.
Philosopher Barba-Kay on CAPTCHA dilemma, Aristotle’s good life, and how the internet is changing us — not for the better
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Campus & Community
A space for researchers to meet, and AI and natural intelligence to do the same
The Kempner Institute buzzes with new code, numbers, ideas
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Science & Tech
Is AI friend or foe? Wrong question.
A lawyer, a computer scientist, and a statistician debate ethics of artificial intelligence
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Campus & Community
Exploring generative AI at Harvard
Leaders weigh in on where we are and what’s next
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Science & Tech
Lifting a few with my chatbot
Sociologist Sherry Turkle warns against growing trend of turning to AI for companionship, counsel
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Arts & Culture
How I learned to stop worrying and love AI
Former software engineer turned English professor talks about future of literary studies in age of ChatGPT
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Nation & World
It may be neither higher nor intelligence
Religious scholars examine value, limits of AI
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Health
AI model flags high-risk pancreatic cancer patients 18 months before diagnosis
Novel approach caught 3.5 times as many cases than current screening guidelines would have for 40-plus group
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Science & Tech
A fast pivot into the unknown
AI’s rapid rise prompts Harvard/MIT Symposium exploring excitement, potential challenges to STEM education, research
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Nation & World
Will tech change what it means to be human? And does it matter?
Michael Sandel pokes, prods with provocative — and thought-provoking — questions in Harvard Dialogues event
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Nation & World
‘Killer robots’ are coming, and U.N. is worried
Human rights specialist lays out legal, ethical problems of military weapons systems that can target, attack targets (or people) without human guidance
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Health
AI may be just what the dentist ordered
Could close the gap, allowing for more equitable access to care and treatment
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Nation
How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
New York Times tech reporter examines case of face-recognition software firm, repercussions for privacy, civil liberties, particularly involving law enforcement, social media.
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Nation
A tech warning: AI is coming fast and it’s going to be rough ride
Former Google chairman Eric Schmidt details disruptions, dangers technology will bring to economy, national security, other aspects of American life.
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Arts & Culture
If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?
Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI
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Science & Tech
Making algorithm used in AI more human-like
Researchers used fMRI to test ideas about complex decision-making.
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Arts & Culture
What happens when computers take on one of ‘most human’ art forms?
New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.
