Weekly Media Update

Week of October 17, 2025

Twelve years ago, the Warren Center for Network & Data Sciences celebrated its launch, featuring donors Fred and Robin Warren and Nobel-winning keynote speaker Alvin Roth. Since then, the Center has continued to host events, support collaborative research, and highlight leading thinkers and cutting-edge developments, connecting researchers, students, and entrepreneurs across the spectrum of data science, uniting them in the pursuit of knowledge and impact.

AI Ethics: Bridging the Gap Between Public Concern and Global Pursuit

In an interview with The Center Square, Michael Kearns said that he’s less worried about autonomous machines becoming all-powerful than the challenges already posed by AI. “I think the harms that are already being demonstrated are much more worrisome,” said Kearns. “Demographic bias, chatbots hurling racist invectives because they were trained on racist material, privacy leaks.”

Managing GPUs
10/16: The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Sebastian Angel

Cameron Kerry: From Gridlock to Governance?
10/16: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Democracy in the Age of AI
10/15: Governance Dialogues Podcast Series | Cary Coglianese

How EPA Could Use AI in the Endangerment Repeal
10/14: E&E News by POLITICO | Cary Coglianese

Konrad + Dan on Causality in Neural Models
10/14: Stanford NeuroAI Lab | Konrad Kording

Who Are the Stakeholders of Open Source Software Communities? How Can We Identify Their Needs?
10/14: CMU Workshop on Accountability and Open Source Software | Christopher Yoo

The Race to Race: Fairness at the Starting Line of Marathon Majors
10/13: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

AI and Water: The Next Frontier
10/13: Broad + Liberty | Michael Kearns

Quilt: Resource-Aware Merging of Serverless Workflows
10/12: The 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Sebastian Angel

The World’s First AI-Powered Minister Tests the Future of Government
10/10: TIME | Cary Coglianese

Why Do Transformers Fail to Forecast Time Series In-Context?
10/10: arXiv | Surbhi Goel

Winning With Full Scene Engagement
10/10: Beat The Prosecution Podcast | Jonathan Moreno

From Ice to Insight: SAP and the NHL’s Partnership Driving Smarter Hockey
10/8: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Dynamic Regret Bounds for Online Omniprediction With Long Term Constraints
10/8: arXiv | Aaron Roth

Nearly Instance-Optimal Parameter Recovery From Many Trajectories via Hellinger Localization
10/7: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Seen and Judged: The Moderating Effect of Perceived Identity on the Impact of Behavioral Versus Attitudinal Information
9/15: Penn CURF Fall Research Expo | Dolores Albarracín

Transformers Learn Mixture-of Experts Regression In Context
9/15: Penn CURF Fall Research Expo | Surbhi Goel

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