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Weekly Media Update

Week of July 31, 2026

How AI Could Make Autism Screening More Accessible

In a new study published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, René Vidal and collaborators developed an artificial intelligence system that measures a child’s ability to imitate simple body movements using nothing more than ordinary video. Their technology is referred to as Computerized Assessment of Motor Imitation, or CAMI. “The technology offers a faster, more objective way to assess an important behavioral marker associated with autism,” says Vidal.

New Study Explains When Some Conspiracy Beliefs Can Lead to Action

Why do some people who embrace conspiracy theories simply hold those beliefs, while others act on them? A new study published in the British Journal of Social Psychology identifies three characteristics that help determine when conspiracy beliefs are most likely to shape real-world behavior. The study’s senior author, Dolores Albarracín, said the findings point to new ways of thinking about interventions.

Whose Voice Matters? Measuring Political Representation in News Quotations
7/31: IC2S2 2026 | Chris Callison-Burch and Duncan Watts

Measuring “Copaganda”: An Analysis of How U.S. National News Covers Crime
7/31: IC2S2 2026 | Duncan Watts

Characterizing How LLMs Respond Differently to Venting and Advice-Seeking
7/30: IC2S2 2026 | Lyle Ungar

Exploring the Consequences of Unbalanced Online News Consumption With LLM Simulations
7/30: IC2S2 2026 | Duncan Watts

Falsehoods Offer No Persuasive Advantage Over Selective Facts: Evidence From Real-World Political Misinformation
7/30: IC2S2 2026 | Duncan Watts

How Well Does the Literature on Behavioral Interventions Generalize? An Empirical Test
7/30: IC2S2 2026 | Duncan Watts

Limits of Literature-Conditioned Large Language Models for Predicting Behavioral Experiments
7/30: IC2S2 2026 | Duncan Watts

Can the Sixers’ New Superteam Work?
7/29: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

The Administrative State After Trump v. Slaughter
7/29: Penn Program on Regulation | Cary Coglianese and Christopher Yoo

Untrustworthy Sources on Facebook and Instagram in 2020: Concentrated Exposure but No Attitudinal Effects
7/29: Science Advances | Sandra González-Bailón

Reconstructing Gender Values From Film: Digital Twins of Fictional Characters as Surveyable Agents
7/29: IC2S2 2026 | Lyle Ungar

Who Killed the IMAX Projector?
7/27: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

AI's Growing Role in Rulemaking Raises New Transparency Questions
7/27: Government Executive | Cary Coglianese

Sandra Mayson Elected to American Law Institute
7/27: Penn Carey Law | Sandy Mayson

Symmetry-Compatible Matrix-Gradient Methods: Equivariant Updates, Spectral Operators, and Convergence
7/27: Optimization Online | Weijie Su

Which Probability Measures Are Strict Correlated Equilibria?
7/25: Games and Economic Behavior | Rakesh Vohra

Study Examines AI Chat Bot Bias, How It Responds to Prompts
7/23: 6abc | Chris Callison-Burch

Information Versus Attention in Flood Risk Disclosure
7/21: Oberlin College Kasper Economics and Business Working Paper Series | Dolores Albarracín

Long-Horizon Wireless Link Scheduling With State-Augmented Graph Neural Networks
7/20: arXiv | Alejandro Ribeiro

AI and the Measurement Imperative
7/19: Quantitative Social Science in the Age of AI | Sandra González-Bailón

Computerized Assessment of Motor Imitation for Distinguishing Autism in Video (CAMI-2DNet)
7/1: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | René Vidal

LLM-Assisted Reranking to Operationalize Nuanced Objectives in Recommender Systems
6/1: arXiv | Duncan Watts

Map Shows Where Data Centers Are Being Built in Drought-Hit Areas
5/29: Newsweek | Benjamin Lee

Friendship Accuracy Varies With Emotional Normativity and Predicts Social Wellbeing
5/26: PsyArXiv | Emily Falk

 
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