Weekly Media Update

Week of May 2, 2025

The Future of AI With Yann LeCun

AI is at the forefront of technological advances and is also reshaping creativity, ownership and societal interactions. In the latest episode of Penn Engineering’s Innovation & Impact podcast, Vijay Kumar spoke with Meta’s Chief AI Scientist and Turing Award winner, Yann LeCun, about the journey of AI, how we define intelligence and the possibilities and challenges it presents. 

How Income Equality Makes Everyone Happy

What does income inequality in America have to do with happiness? A recent study by Matthew Killingsworth, based on approximately 1.7 million real-time reports from more than 33,000 U.S. workers, reveals that in order to increase happiness across society, it’s most effective to raise the incomes of those earning the least.

Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models via Debates

5/2: NAACL 2025 | Hamed Hassani and Edgar Dobriban

Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage

5/1: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | Chris Callison-Burch and Duncan Watts

StyleDistance: Stronger Content-Independent Style Embeddings with Synthetic Parallel Examples

5/1: NAACL 2025 | Chris Callison-Burch

Energy-Efficient AI: The Franklin Institute Awards Laureate Symposium Honoring William James Dally

5/1: AI Month @ Penn | Benjamin Lee

Language-Based Valence and Arousal Expressions Between the United States and China: A Cross-Cultural Examination

5/1: NAACL 2025 | Lyle Ungar

From Oversight to Advantage: Governing AI With Confidence

5/1: Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative | Kevin Werbach  

David Weinberger: How AI Challenges Our Fundamental Ideas

5/1: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History

4/30: Quanta Magazine | Chris Callison-Burch

Towards Rationality in Language and Multimodal Agents: A Survey

4/30: NAACL 2025 | Weijie Su 

Exploring Socio-Cultural Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Mental Health Chatbots for Adolescents in India

4/30: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | Lyle Ungar

Conversations With AI Chatbots Increase Short-Term Vaccine Intentions But Do Not Outperform Standard Public Health Messaging

4/29: arXiv | Lyle Ungar 

Efficient Management of LLM-Based Coaching Agents’ Reasoning While Maintaining Interaction Quality and Speed

4/29: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | Lyle Ungar

Starbucks’ New Dress Code: Why Uniforms Don’t Make the Culture

4/28: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

At the Intersection of Science and AI

4/28: Omnia | Maria Cuellar 

Scaling Up: How AI Month 2025 Brought Big Ideas to Life at Penn Engineering

4/28: Penn Engineering AI | Michael Kearns

Nonconvex Linear System Identification With Minimal State Representation

4/28: arXiv | René Vidal

Logicbreaks: A Framework for Understanding Subversion of Rule-Based Inference

4/26: ICLR 2025 | Surbhi Goel

Auto-GDA: Automatic Domain Adaptation for Efficient Grounding Verification in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

4/26: ICLR 2025 | Aaron Roth

Mathematics of Continual Learning

4/24: arXiv | René Vidal

The Trump Administration, the Rule of Law, and the Future of Business

4/22: Penn Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law | Cary Coglianese

Personalized Detection of Circulating Cell-Free Tumor DNA in Gynecologic Cancer

4/21: American Association for Cancer Research | Abba Krieger

Know Me, Respond to Me: Benchmarking LLMs for Dynamic User Profiling and Personalized Responses at Scale

4/19: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Is Privacy Really a Civil Right?

4/10: New York University School of Law | Anita Allen

Privacy and Civil Rights

4/1: The University of Ottawa | Anita Allen 

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