Weekly Media Update

Week of March 27, 2026

At this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, Neil deGrasse Tyson convened a uniquely interdisciplinary panel of pioneers: leaders in machine learning research, AI ethics, national security technology, data‑privacy law, and long‑term AI safety. Panelists, including Chris Callison-Burch, examined how AI is transforming scientific practice, altering geopolitical power, challenging legal and ethical frameworks, and raising fundamental questions about human agency and control.

Trading Places: What Happens When Neuroscience Turns into Machine Learning, and Machine Learning Turns into Neuroscience?

Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. "We are watching two disciplines trade their worst habits. Neuroscience is mistaking benchmarked prediction for understanding, and machine learning is mistaking mechanistic language for mechanism," says Konrad Kording in this Transmitter piece.

University of Pennsylvania Researchers Detail How AI Is Reshaping Math Research Workflows
3/26: EdTech Innovation Hub | Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

Michael Horowitz, UPenn: Governing AI That's Designed to Kill
3/26: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Toward Beginner-Friendly LLMs for Language Learning: Controlling Difficulty in Conversation
3/25: EACL 2026 | Chris Callison-Burch

Trump’s Actions to Slash Red Tape Fall Short of Early Promises
3/25: Bloomberg Law | Cary Coglianese

Building a Contender: Analytics and Leadership in the NHL
3/25: Wharton Moneyball | Shane Jensen

The Key Detail Everyone’s Getting Wrong About AI and the Economy
3/25: Transformer | Konrad Kording

Stochastic Unrolled Neural Networks
3/25: CPAL 2026 | Alejandro Ribeiro

2026 Antitrust Writing Award
3/24: Concurrences/GW Competition Law Center | Christopher Yoo

Shrinking to Win: How Firing Your Largest Customer and Closing 200 Buildings Became a Rational Strategy
3/23: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Administrative Law and AI’s Overconfidence
3/23: The Regulatory Review | Cary Coglianese

Penn Carey Law Faculty Named Among Most Cited Legal Scholars
3/23: Penn Carey Law | Sandy Mayson and Cary Coglianese

The AI Layoff Trap
3/21: arXiv | Brett Hemenway Falk

In a World With Many Epsteins, Does Ethics Still Matter?
3/20: The Hastings Center for Bioethics | Jonathan Moreno

Analyzing the News With AI
3/20: Penn Today | Duncan Watts

LaTeX2Layout: High-Fidelity, Scalable Document Layout Annotation Pipeline for Layout Detection
3/14: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Chris Callison-Burch and Lyle Ungar

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