Weekly Media Update

Week of August 8, 2025

AI for Good at Meta, Direct Relief/CrisisReady, and Duncan Watts' Computational Social Science Lab brought together elected officials, emergency response agencies, researchers, and private sector leaders to explore how cutting-edge AI and novel data sources can enhance disaster preparedness, particularly in the context of high-profile events like the FIFA World Cup. Together, they asked: How can AI help us act faster, smarter, and more equitably in times of crisis?

How Regulators Can Deal With Political, Social and Technological Disruption

In this interview with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), Cary Coglianese discusses the challenges ahead for regulators, the threats and opportunities of AI, building and maintaining trust, and the value of bringing regulators from different sectors together. Coglianese will be a keynote speaker at ANZSOG's upcoming conference on "Regulation 2025 to 2050: Disruption, Change and Continuity."

War of Words
8/7: Carrier Management | Tom Baker

Tailoring Competition Policy Approach to Evolving Geopolitical Dynamics
8/7: The 3rd Annual International Conference on Competition Law in the Digital Age | Christopher Yoo

Customer Lifetime Value and Machine Learning: Better Together for Business Impact
8/6: Theta | Peter Fader

The GOP Is Choosing Pesticides Over the MAHA Moms
8/5: Bloomberg Businessweek | Cary Coglianese

Apple and AI: Yet Another Example of Conway’s Law
8/4: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Coral: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge CFG Proofs
8/4: Cryptology ePrint Archive | Sebastian Angel

Simple Methods Defend RAG Systems Well Against Real-World Attacks
8/4: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

AI-Assisted Authorship and Personhood
8/4: National University of Singapore | Christopher Yoo

Task-Structured Modularity Emerges in Artificial Networks and Aligns With Brain Architecture
7/31: Research Square | Dani Bassett

Loper Bright Enterprises One Year Later: The Practical Impact on Business, Consumers and Federal Agencies
7/31: Ballard Spahr Podcast | Cary Coglianese

Considerations for Artificial Intelligence in Government
7/29: GW Regulatory Studies Center | Cary Coglianese

On the Need for Digital Regulators
7/28: Research Handbook on Digital Regulatory Agencies | Cary Coglianese

mStyleDistance: Multilingual Style Embeddings and Their Evaluation
7/27: ACL 2025 | Chris Callison-Burch

Scaling Text-Rich Image Understanding via Code-Guided Synthetic Multimodal Data Generation
7/27: ACL 2025 | Chris Callison-Burch

DOGE AI Tool Aims to Slash 50% of US Regulations by Trump's Inauguration Anniversary
7/27: Cryptopolitan | Cary Coglianese

Systematic Evaluation of Auto-Encoding and Large Language Model Representations for Capturing Author States and Traits
7/27: ACL 2025 | Lyle Ungar

Demystifying AI in Criminal Justice
7/25: arXiv | Richard Berk

Hiring Student Workers: Part-Time Research Analysts
The Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy | Duncan Watts

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