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Weekly Media Update

Week of June 6, 2025

Training Tomorrow’s Data Scientists

This year, as part of its new AI x Science initiative, the Data Driven Discovery Initiative has expanded its four-year-old postdoctoral fellow program to include researchers from Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine using cutting-edge techniques in data science and artificial intelligence. Key faculty members involved at DDDI include co-directors Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway, and Penn Engineering’s Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) director René Vidal.

AI Month

Unlocking the Mechanics of Protein Misfolding

An interdisciplinary team led by Lee C. Bassett and Dani Bassett has studied the mechanical properties of prions, the mysterious shape-shifting proteins that are infamous for mad cow disease yet essential for yeast survival.

Guardrails Versus Leashes: Finding a Better Way to Regulate AI Technology

A flexible system of oversight, rather than a rigid one, is needed to make sure AI systems are safe, says Cary Coglianese. He calls it the “leash” approach, mirroring taking a dog for a walk. “We want technological innovation to explore and traverse, but we want to make sure that, as it’s developing, somebody’s overseeing it.”

The Cases for Industry Self-Regulation and Government Regulation of AI

6/6: The 8th Annual Innovation and Technology Law Conference | Christopher Yoo 

Shameek Kundu: AI Testing and the Quest for Boring Predictability

6/5: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach 

Lions and Dolphins Can Not Make Babies: Why Human Connectomes Can Probably Not Be Useful for AI

6/4: Substack | Konrad Kording 

Eleventh Law and Computer Science Roundtable

6/4: Penn Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition | Christopher Yoo 

Emily Falk Celebrates What We Value on June 3rd

6/3: Barnes & Noble Philadelphia | Emily Falk 

One App to Rule Them All: Airbnb Declares War on Hotels, Hosts, and Its Own Simplicity

6/2: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment: Examining Author Self-Assessment in ML/AI Peer Review

6/2: Journal of the American Statistical Association | Aaron Roth and Weijie Su 

Evaluating the Unseen Capabilities: How Many Theorems Do LLMs Know?

6/1: arXiv | Weijie Su 

RSS Test of Time Award

5/30: Robotics: Science and Systems | Vijay Kumar 

Investigating Mood and Cognition in People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study Protocol

5/30: BMJ Open | Ted Satterthwaite 

The Future of AI Regulation: Why Guided Oversight Outperforms Strict Restrictions

5/29: Science Magazine | Cary Coglianese

More Platforms, Less Attention to News? A Multi-Platform Analysis of News Exposure Across TV, Web, and YouTube in the United States

5/29: New Media & Society | Sandra González-Bailón 

Big Data and Competition Law: Lessons From Innovation Markets

5/29: Antitrust Law Journal | Christopher Yoo 

First Steps Towards Overhearing LLM Agents: A Case Study With Dungeons & Dragons Gameplay

5/28: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch 

Fundamental Limits of Game-Theoretic LLM Alignment: Smith Consistency and Preference Matching

5/27: arXiv | Weijie Su 

Herd Behavior: Investigating Peer Influence in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

5/27: arXiv | Lyle Ungar 

Alignment of Large Language Models With Constrained Learning

5/26: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro 

Foundations of Top-k Decoding for Language Models

5/25: arXiv | Edgar Dobriban 

On the Mechanisms of Weak-to-Strong Generalization: A Theoretical Perspective

5/23: arXiv | Hamed Hassani 

When Data Science and Social Good Intersect

5/23: Omnia | Greg Ridgeway and Bhuvnesh Jain 

Regina Austin Award for Innovation in Teaching

5/13: Penn Carey Law School | Tom Baker 

Regulating for a Better Tomorrow?

5/13: Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy | Cary Coglianese 

Antitrust Review Episode 42: In Conversation With Aviv Nevo

5/12: Cleary Antitrust Watch | Aviv Nevo

Legal & Regulatory Considerations for Governors Related to Artificial Intelligence

4/29: National Governors Association | Cary Coglianese 

Advances in Research

4/28: Penn Carey Law School | Anita Allen, Tom Baker, Cary Coglianese, and Sandy Mayson 

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