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“You can only design a system to the limit of what you can plan for”
EP. 12 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Joe Barnes

ISI at the NAACL ‘25 Conference
From planning creatively to aligning AI with human values, USC ISI researchers push the boundaries of natural language processing.

ISI @ the 2025 ACM Web Conference
USC ISI showcases new research to safeguard online discourse, mitigate polarization, evaluate LLMs, and more

USC at ICLR 2025
USC researchers present cutting-edge advances in AI and machine learning at ICLR 2025, highlighting breakthroughs in 3D vision, decision-making, and deep learning

Mapping Our Emotionally-Divided Society
USC ISI researchers develop a novel mathematical model that helps explain why we’re polarized

“You have to make your security useful for people without it being a burden”
EP. 11 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Erik Kline

Investigating State-Backed Information Operations
USC ISI researchers assess a previous claim that countries collaborate on efforts to manipulate public opinion across social media

Bridging Borders: The IUSSTF – USC Viterbi Program’s Path to Global Innovation
How USC’s prestigious summer internship is transforming lives and advancing engineering excellence.

“Quantum could be able to explain features of nature that change the world”
EP. 10 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Federico Spedalieri

Workshop Gathers Experts at Crossroads of Space, Cybersecurity and AI
A two-day event brought together researchers, defense officials, investors and technologists to confront an urgent question: how do we secure the final frontier in the age of AI?