Weekly Media Update

Week of April 18, 2025

The Potential of Private AI Governance

In the latest episode of his podcast, The Road to Accountable AI, Kevin Werbach interviews Lauren Wagner, a builder and advocate for market-driven approaches to AI governance. Wagner shares insights from her experiences at Google and Meta, emphasizing the critical intersection of technology, policy, and trust-building. 

Fake News, Echo Chambers, and Algorithms: A Data Science Perspective

On Wednesday, April 23rd, as part of the 2025 AI Month at Penn and the ASSET Center Seminar Series, Duncan Watts will discuss the “infodemic” of fake news in America. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Watts argues that fake news is relatively rare, echo chambers on television are much larger and stickier than their online equivalents, and individual preferences dominate algorithmic filtering in determining consumption patterns. Join in person or on Zoom.

B.S.E. in AI Research Seminar

4/18: AI Month @ Penn | Chris Callison-Burch

International Monopolization

4/18: PCLAA Symposium: Silicon Valley and the Sherman Act | Christopher Yoo

The Future of AI

4/17: AI Month @ Penn | Michael Kearns

Current and Emerging Issues in Technology, Intellectual Property, and Entertainment & Media Law

4/17: Penn Carey Law | Christopher Yoo 

What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change

4/16: Family Action Network | Emily Falk 

Do ‘Harm Reduction’ Interventions for Substance Use Lower or Raise Trust in Government?

4/15: Annenberg Public Policy Center | Dolores Albarracín

The Efficacy of Multi‐Behavior Interventions: From Physical Health to Mental Health

4/15: The Handbook of Mental Health Communication | Dolores Albarracín

What Does AI Tell Us About What It Means to Be Human

4/15: AI Month @ Penn | Chris Callison-Burch

Penn Carey Law Professor Co-Authors Pioneering Article Reviewing Reversal of Chevron Doctrine

4/15: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Cary Coglianese

Map Co-Developed by Annenberg Researchers Estimates Economic, Job Loss Impact of NIH Funding Cuts

4/15: The Daily Pennsylvanian | Emily Falk

Datacenter Architecture

4/15: AI Infrastructure: Foundations for Energy Efficiency and Scalability | Benjamin Lee

Energy Systems and Innovation

4/15: AI Infrastructure: Foundations for Energy Efficiency and Scalability | Benjamin Lee

Planning Without Predictions: How Apple Navigates Supply Chain Uncertainty

4/14: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Artificial Intelligence and Efficiency

4/14: AI Infrastructure: Foundations for Energy Efficiency and Scalability | Chris Callison-Burch and René Vidal

The Unsettling of Notice and Comment

4/14: The Regulatory Review | Cary Coglianese

‘What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change’

4/14: Penn Today | Emily Falk 

The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information

4/14: The Center for Information Networks and Democracy | Sandra González-Bailón

Trump Is Trying to Cut the Public Out of Federal Rulemaking

4/10: NOTUS | Cary Coglianese  

Using the Language of Elite Athletes to Predict their Personality and on Court Transgressions

4/10: Research Square | Lyle Ungar 

Predicting Explainable Dementia Types with LLM-Aided Feature Engineering

4/8: Bioinformatics | Chris Callison-Burch 

Low Rank Learning for Offline Query Optimization

4/8: arXiv | Zack Ives

Falcon: Fractional Alternating Cut with Overcoming Minima in Unsupervised Segmentation

4/8: arXiv | Konrad Kording 

The Great Unsettling

4/2: Penn Carey Law | Cary Coglianese 

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