AI is giving a boost to efforts to monitor health via radar

Today’s radar technology can detect the minute movements when your heart beats or you take a breath. Machine learning turns those signals into vital signs readings.

Aly Fathy, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Tennessee • conversation
April 30, 2025 ~7 min

A robot that you ride like a horse is being developed. It will stretch current limits of engineering

Kawasaki has unveiled a concept robotic horse, but can it actually be achieved?

Matías Mattamala, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford • conversation
April 28, 2025 ~7 min


Memes and conflict: Study shows surge of imagery and fakes can precede international and political violence

Visual content, including manipulated images, is a staple of propaganda and political messaging. AI analysis shows that a surge of these memes can precede the outbreak of wide-scale violence.

Ernesto Verdeja, Associate Professor of Peace Studies and Global Politics, University of Notre Dame • conversation
April 24, 2025 ~7 min

From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance

Under the guise of efficiency and fraud prevention, the federal government is breaking down data silos to collect and aggregate information on virtually everyone in the US.

Nicole M. Bennett, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Assistant Director at the Center for Refugee Studies, Indiana University • conversation
April 23, 2025 ~8 min

Some politicians who share harmful information are rewarded with more clicks, study finds

A study of US state legislators found that posting misinformation online was a winning strategy for boosting a politician’s visibility – but not for Democrats.

Yu-Ru Lin, Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh • conversation
April 22, 2025 ~6 min

AI-controlled fighter jets may be closer than we think — and would change the face of warfare

The US military is already using AI to control aircraft in tests.

Arun Dawson, PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King's College London • conversation
April 17, 2025 ~7 min

Why deregulating online platforms is actually bad for free speech

At first glance it might seem contradictory that restricting some speech can preserve free speech, but research shows that online content moderation protects the marketplace of ideas.

Michael Gregory, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Clemson University • conversation
April 17, 2025 ~7 min

Popular AIs head-to-head: OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning

Large language model AIs can ingest long documents and answer questions about them, but a key question is how well they ‘understand’ individual sentences in the documents.

Manas Gaur, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County • conversation
April 17, 2025 ~8 min


Getting AIs working toward human goals − study shows how to measure misalignment

Aligning AIs with people’s goals and values is tricky. A new technique quantifies how far off human and machine are from each other.

Aidan Kierans, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut • conversation
April 14, 2025 ~5 min

Fill-in-the-blank training primes AI to interpret health data from smartwatches and fitness trackers

AI can process data from wearable devices to better monitor your health and detect problems sooner. The trick is teaching AI algorithms how to cut through the noise.

Eloy Geenjaar, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
April 10, 2025 ~9 min

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