Artificial Intelligence News Feed

“If you study AI you need to be curious and not pay attention to the noise”
EPISODE 28 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Pei Zhou

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Evaluate Your LLM
A USC ISI researcher and his collaborators propose separating the AI makers from the AI testers to create more robust systems.

USC at the NAACL ’24 Conference
Notable research includes work on legal AI, LLM manipulation by bad actors, and assessing argument quality.

How easy is it to get AIs to talk like a partisan?
Very easy, according to new research from USC Viterbi School of Engineering on LLMs.

“I worry that AI will be used to manipulate large groups of people”
EPISODE 25 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Myrl Marmarelis

“AIs will give you answers even if they don’t know”
EPISODE 24 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Negar Mokhberian

Detecting Influence Campaigns on X with AI and Network Science
ISI researchers have developed machine learning models to identify coordinated inauthentic behaviors by accounts on X involved in influence campaigns around the world

Optimizing Data Flow for Scientific Discovery
Scientists are calculating earthquake risk using an ISI-created system that automates and manages data- and compute-intensive research.

Creating Human-Like Chatbots
ISI researchers explore how to advance AI toward more authentic interaction.

Making AI safe and fair
How ISI researchers are engaging in research, policy and thought leadership to guide AI toward positive futures.