Weekly Media Update

Week of November 14, 2025

(Artificial) Intelligence Saturation and the Future of Work

In Konrad Kording and Ioana Marinescu's new Brookings Institution working paper, they consider how to model an economy with rapidly increasing intelligence capital but slowly increasing physical capital in order to generate meaningful predictions of AI’s wage and output impacts. 

AI Scientists Can’t Optimize Worsening Energy Efficiency: Why Behind-the-Scenes AI Is Costing You

AI is booming right now and it’s causing utility costs for everyday consumers to reach unprecedented highs. “There is increasing deployment of AI technologies behind the scenes, and that is definitely driving up these energy costs,” said Benjamin Lee to MSNBC. “Right now, we're very, very much on the benefits side of the equation, and then we are paying whatever cost is needed to demonstrate those next generation capabilities.”

Efficiency and Effectiveness of Net Neutrality Rules in the Mobile Sector: Relevant Developments and State of the Empirical Literature
11/14: Telecommunications Policy | Christopher Yoo

Will Patchwork of State AI Laws Inhibit Innovation?
11/13: Government Technology | Cary Coglianese

Oliver Patel: Sharing Frameworks for AI Governance
11/13: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

An Open, Fully-Processed, Longitudinal Data Resource to Study Brain Development and Transdiagnostic Executive Function
11/12: bioRxiv | Dani Bassett and Ted Satterthwaite

How Analytics Are Redefining Playoff Predictions Across College and Pro Sports
11/12: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
11/11: bioRxiv | Ted Satterthwaite

Modernizing the American Industrial Base: Tacit Knowledge, Comparative Lessons, and the SCALE Challenge
11/10: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Contra4: Evaluating Contrastive Cross-Modal Reasoning in Audio, Video, Image, and 3D
11/7: EMNLP 2025 Poster | Chris Callison-Burch

Building a Sustainable Future: Empowering the Next Generation
11/7: Penn Engineering Fireside Chat | Vijay Kumar

ControlText: Unlocking Controllable Fonts in Multilingual Text Rendering Without Font Annotations
11/7: EMNLP 2025 Poster | Lyle Ungar

The Impact of Language Mixing on Bilingual LLM Reasoning
11/7: EMNLP 2025 Oral | Lyle Ungar

Motivating and Supporting Youth to Vote Using Theory-Driven Approaches
11/6: PsyArXiv | Emily Falk

Optimal Parallel Basis Finding in Graphic and Related Matroids
11/6: arXiv | Sanjeev Khanna

The Need for a Global Effort to Attend to Human Neural Organoid and Assembloid Research
11/6: Science | Jonathan Moreno

Probabilistic Soundness Guarantees in LLM Reasoning Chains
11/5: EMNLP 2025 Poster | Chris Callison-Burch

The Tariff Case Puts the Supreme Court’s Conservatives in a Bind
11/5: POLITICO | Cary Coglianese

Min-Max Optimization Is Strictly Easier Than Variational Inequalities
11/4: arXiv | Jason Altschuler

In Good GRACEs: Principled Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation
11/4: arXiv | Surbhi Goel

Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Control: Current Tensions and Future Promise
11/3: arXiv | Emily Falk and Dani Bassett

Balancing Power in Decentralized Governance: Quadratic Voting and Information Aggregation
11/3: Management Science | Brett Hemenway Falk

Exploring the Global Governance of the Internet
11/3: Penn Carey Law | Christopher Yoo

Wharton Executive Education Launches AI in Marketing: Creating Customer Value in an AI-Driven Enterprise
10/30: Wharton Executive Education | Eric Bradlow

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