Coronavirus: how the pandemic has exposed AI’s limitations

As talk of recovery begins, it’s time to rethink the role of artificial intelligence in society.

Kathy Peach, Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta • conversation
July 20, 2020 ~7 min

Museums preserve clues that can help scientists predict and analyze future pandemics

Genetic information that could help finger the next infectious threat is stored in museums around the world.

Richard Yanagihara, Professor of Pediatrics and Principal Investigator, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, University of Hawaii • conversation
June 24, 2020 ~9 min


AI could help solve the privacy problems it has created

Artificial intelligence insatiable data needs has encouraged the mass collection of personal data, placing privacy at risk. But AI can help solve the very problem it creates.

Aryya Gangopadhyay, Professor, Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
June 22, 2020 ~8 min

Workplaces are turning to devices to monitor social distancing, but does the tech respect privacy?

Smartphone apps and wearable devices can tell when workers have been within six feet of each other, promising to help curb the coronavirus. But they're not all the same when it comes to privacy.

Ari Trachtenberg, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Computer Science, Boston University • conversation
June 9, 2020 ~9 min

Scientists are working to protect invaluable living collections during coronavirus lockdowns

From fungi and flies to spiders and fish, living collections need care and feeding even when their human keepers are dealing with a pandemic and its resultant social distancing.

Rita Rio, Professor of Biology, West Virginia University • conversation
April 23, 2020 ~9 min

Five ways collective intelligence can help beat coronavirus in developing countries

Many low and middle-income countries are unprepared for the COVID-19 pandemic. But innovation could help.

Ian Gray, PhD candidate, University of Exeter • conversation
April 20, 2020 ~8 min

How to tackle depression in Japan?

CCI and Takeda collaborate on a theoretical approach leveraging networks of people and machines in support of individuals experiencing depression.

Annalyn Bachmann | Center for Collective Intelligence • mit
Feb. 4, 2020 ~3 min

Kristen Roupenian, author of ‘Cat Person,’ writes about what scares you

Propelled by her viral short story, Harvard alumna Kristen Roupenian publishes her first collection, visits Cambridge.

Jill Radsken • harvard
Feb. 25, 2019 ~7 min


Arboretum helps design students focus on ‘plant blindness’

A course at the Graduate School of Design takes students from the classroom into Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, where plants come to life for these landscape architects.

Deborah Blackwell • harvard
Feb. 19, 2019 ~10 min

A special journal explains the critical importance of biological collections

Harvard researchers contribute to the preservation of museum specimens, marking the collections’ importance in a special journal released Nov. 19.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Nov. 19, 2018 ~7 min

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