Weekly Media Update

Week of August 15, 2025

Sustainable Computing: Can AI Be Energy Efficient?

The possibilities of AI seem as infinite as its challenges. How can data centers be energy efficient? Who regulates these facilities and under what kinds of policies? And how can different software and hardware across the globe be coordinated to work for everyone? As AI advances at breakneck speed, experts at Penn are urgently trying to answer these questions. Arthur van Benthem and Benjamin C. Lee have assembled a multidisciplinary team of scientists, industry professionals, and policy leaders to explore solutions.

The Robot Hype Is Real — But So Is the Problem

We’re promised a future of robot helpers and intelligent machines — so where are they? In a recent episode of DEEP Podcast, Vijay Kumar spoke with Ben Kaplan about how AI is reshaping the future of robots, why aerial drones still struggle, what swarm intelligence can teach us, and the real-world impact of robots in medicine and disaster relief.

Plan Your Science
8/14: Scientific Project Planner | Konrad Kording

Chevron Is Dead. Is the Administrative State Still Alive?
8/13: Bloomberg Law's UnCommon Law Podcast | Cary Coglianese

Admin Law and AI With Cary Coglianese
8/12: Lawfare | Cary Coglianese

DOGE’s AI Plan to Kill 100,000 Rules Has a Bark Bigger Than Bite
8/12: Bloomberg Law | Cary Coglianese

Experts Urge Flexible Competition Policy to Aid MSMEs’ Digital Growth
8/12: BW Businessworld | Christopher Yoo

Throne Labs and the Revival of America’s Public Restrooms
8/11: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Judicial Remedies After CASA
8/11: The Regulatory Review | Cary Coglianese

Swift Bricks, Ancient Tattoos and More: Books in Brief
8/8: Nature | Emily Falk

Transferring Expert Cognitive Models to Social Robots via Agentic Concept Bottleneck Models
8/6: arXiv | Dolores Albarracín

Latent Theme-Based Decomposition of the Causal Impact of Marketing Interventions
7/31: The Wharton School Research Paper | Raghuram Iyengar

The Impact of the Giga Initiative on Education Outcomes in Rwanda
7/29: TPRC 2025 | Christopher Yoo

What Litigation Funders Can Learn About Settlement Rights From the Law of Liability Insurance
7/21: Theoretical Inquiries of Law | Tom Baker

What Amazon’s Data Center Investment in Pennsylvania Could Mean for Jobs
7/8: IT Brew | Benjamin C. Lee

Hiring Student Workers: Part-Time Research Analysts
The Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy | Duncan Watts

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