If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art

How can we create new ways for understanding how AI image-production models inform our experience of the world?

Anthony Downey, Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University • conversation
March 19, 2025 ~7 min

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

Participants in a study were willing to spend just as much time and money on an AI-generated story as one they were told was written by a human.

Reed Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Bowdoin College • conversation
March 18, 2025 ~5 min


Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy

Every field has its own standard for what data gets recorded for specimens archived in a museum collection, which can make research difficult.

Bradley Wade Bishop, Professor of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee • conversation
March 17, 2025 ~7 min

Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted

Handing over the tasks once done by human developers comes with some major risks.

Jordi Cabot, Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) • conversation
March 17, 2025 ~6 min

When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question: Is this what the founders had in mind when they set up the patent system?

W. Keith Robinson, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University • conversation
March 14, 2025 ~8 min

How AI is making affordable air pollution sensors more accurate

Small air sensors that harness the power of AI could transform pollution monitoring.

Farzana Rahman, Senior Lecturer, MSc Data Science Course Leader, Kingston University • conversation
March 12, 2025 ~6 min

University spin-out secures funding to improve AI energy efficiency and bandwidth

A University of Cambridge spin-out company working to improve AI efficiency and bandwidth has raised €25 million in new funding.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 11, 2025 ~3 min

Beyond AI regulation: How government and industry can team up to make the technology safer without hindering innovation

AI innovation and governance can coexist. The key is combining public-private partnerships, market audits and accountability.

Paulo Carvão, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School • conversation
March 7, 2025 ~9 min


DOGE threat: How government data would give an AI company extraordinary power

As DOGE taps into sensitive federal agency data repositories, many people fear what could happen to the data. One little-discussed but hugely consequential possibility: fueling Elon Musk’s xAI company.

Allison Stanger, Distinguished Endowed Professor, Middlebury • conversation
March 6, 2025 ~11 min

How the risk of AI weapons could spiral out of control

Google recently ended its longstanding ban on developing AI weapons.

Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath • conversation
March 4, 2025 ~7 min

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