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Weekly Media Update

Week of April 10, 2026

Taking AI to the Next Level

How do we develop public trust in AI to make important medical diagnoses? René Vidal develops AI algorithms that are easier to understand, reliable, and trustworthy, helping make AI safer and more transparent in real-world use.

5 Ways to Add a Little Inconvenience to Your Day — and Improve Your Brain

Emily Falk believes the benefit of friction-maxxing lies in its potential for creating a more meaningful life, not necessarily boosting cognition. For example, the ease of writing an email with AI might make you feel good in the moment — but if you value communication or building social skills, Falk said, it may not align with your big-picture goals (and may make life feel less meaningful).

Walter Haydock, StackAware: In Search Of AI Governance Certification
4/9: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Surrogate-Model Approaches to Optimizers for LLM Training
4/9: Penn FOLDS Seminar | Weijie Su

Blending Analytics and Leadership in Major League Baseball Operations
4/8: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Australia Has a Chance to Avoid Europe’s Innovation Trap
4/8: Capital Brief | Christopher Yoo

When Shocks Compound: The Strait of Hormuz, Tariff Whiplash, and What Happens When Everything Breaks at Once
4/6: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

A Living Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Open-Data Resource of Randomized Controlled Trials of Psilocybin Treatment for Symptoms of Depression
4/6: Nature Mental Health | Ted Satterthwaite

BibTeX Citation Hallucinations in Scientific Publishing Agents: Evaluation and Mitigation
4/3: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Detecting and Correcting Reference Hallucinations in Commercial LLMs and Deep Research Agents
4/3: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Learning-Based Fault Detection for Legged Robots in Remote Dynamic Environments
4/3: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

ThinknCheck: Grounded Claim Verification With Compact, Reasoning-Driven, and Interpretable Models
4/2: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

What Do Claim Verification Datasets Actually Test? A Reasoning Trace Analysis
4/2: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Previewing University-Wide Programming for Penn’s Third Annual AI Month
4/2: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Cary Coglianese, Jason Altschuler, and Bhuvnesh Jain

Finding Agreement: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hyperscanning Reveals That Mental State Space Exploration Facilitates Opinion Alignment
4/2: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | Emily Falk

Flexibility Allocation in Random Bipartite Matching Markets: Exact Matching Rates and Dominance Regimes
4/2: arXiv | Sophie Yu

The Newton-Muon Optimizer
4/1: arXiv | Weijie Su

BLISS: Global Blind Identification of Linear Systems With Sparse Inputs
4/1: arXiv | René Vidal

Collaborative Relationships, Disciplinary and Global Culture, Social Identity and Scientific Status Shape How Scholars Cite Prior Work
3/30: Communications Psychology | Dani Bassett

A Living Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Open Data Resource of Trials of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD
3/30: medRxiv | Ted Satterthwaite

The Future of AI Is Many, Not One
3/30: arXiv | Daniel Singer

A Dynamic Model of the Economic Returns to Adolescent Social Skills
3/26: PIER Working Paper | Andrew Postlewaite

Agents, Inc.
3/23: SSRN | Kevin Werbach

Private Codes and Standards
2/28: Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law | Cary Coglianese

Unrules
2/28: Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law | Cary Coglianese

Blockchain and the Evolution of Accounting Systems: From DoubleEntry to Triple-Entry Bookkeeping
2/18: ResearchGate | Kevin Werbach

Identification of Semiparametric Panel Multinomial Choice Models With Infinite-Dimensional Fixed Effects
2/4: The Review of Economics and Statistics | Wayne Gao

 
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