Weekly Media Update

Week of April 11, 2025

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change

A new book by Emily Falk reveals how we can transform our relationship with the daily decisions that define our lives—opening pathways to make more purposeful, fulfilling choices; more successfully change our behavior; and influence others to see differently—by thinking like neuroscientists.

Exploring the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

In panels throughout the day at the April 4th Penn AI Governance Workshop, faculty discussed their research in relation to key AI topics, such as AI oversight, AI policy, the social impacts of AI, and teaching AI. "Penn’s AI research is already impacting the world, and Penn can be a leader in engaging with the risks and challenges that AI poses,” said Kevin Werbach.

Zixuan Yi: A ‘Question-Driven’ Approach to Improving AI and Machine Learning

4/11: Penn Engineering AI | Zack Ives 

Tractable Agreement Protocols

4/11: Vector Institute Distinguished Lecture Series | Aaron Roth 

New Wharton AI Concentration and Major Set to Shift How Business Leaders Navigate Digital Economy

4/10: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Eric Bradlow

Trump ‘On Weak Ground’ with Attempted Block of State Climate Action

4/10: Sustainable Views | Cary Coglianese

Medha Bankhwal and Michael Chui: Implementing AI Trust

4/10: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Tissue-Specific Splicing Prediction – What’s in a Name, What’s in a Claim, and Are Target Functions All the Same?

4/9: The BioCiphers Lab Blog | Yoseph Barash 

Chief Justice Steps In & Crypto Letup

4/9: Bloomberg Law Podcast | Cary Coglianese 

State-Augmented Opportunistic Routing in Wireless Communication Systems with Graph Neural Networks

4/9: ICASSP 2025 | Alejandro Ribeiro 

CTIC Career Speaker Series: James Park L’14, MCIT’16

4/9: Penn Carey Law | Christopher Yoo 

Collaborative Prediction: Tractable Information Aggregation via Agreement

4/8: arXiv | Surbhi Goel and Aaron Roth

Tariff Turbulence: The End of Inexpensive Apparel

4/7: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Optimizing Biophysical Large-Scale Brain Circuit Models With Deep Neural Networks

4/7: bioRxiv | Ted Satterthwaite

Responsible Innovation Starts Here: A Holistic Approach to Engineering Education

4/7: Penn Engineering Today | Vijay Kumar

Learning Flatness-Preserving Residuals for Pure-Feedback Systems

4/6: arXiv | Nikolai Matni  

Controlled Social Learning: Altruism vs. Bias

4/3: arXiv | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Saswati Sarkar

Shining a Light on AI Hallucinations

4/3: Communications of the ACM | Chris Callison-Burch

Concept Lancet: Image Editing with Compositional Representation Transplant

4/3: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch and René Vidal

The Wharton School Introduces New Undergraduate Concentration and MBA Major in Artificial Intelligence for Business

4/2: The Wharton School | Eric Bradlow and Kevin Werbach 

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing Observational Tensions in Cosmology With Systematics and Fundamental Physics

4/2: arXiv | Bhuvnesh Jain 

Learning With Imperfect Models: When Multi-Step Prediction Mitigates Compounding Error

4/2: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

AI Agents Can (and Will) Be Scammed

4/1: Computerworld | Benjamin Lee

Policy Gradient for LQR with Domain Randomization

3/31: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

How Is the Tech Industry Thinking about AI's Environmental Impact?

3/30: NPR's All Things Considered | Benjamin Lee

A National Megastudy Shows That Email Nudges to Elementary School Teachers Boost Student Math Achievement, Particularly When Personalized

3/24: PNAS | Ron Berman 

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