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How Online Echo Chambers Make Eating Disorders Worse
USC scientists uncover social media’s “vicious cycle” that traps vulnerable populations within pro-anorexia communities.
“My fear is that we put AI at the core without any human knowledge”
EPISODE 17 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Basel Shbita
“AIs can’t be sentient, they are bunch of numbers that obey algorithms”
EPISODE 16 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Julie Jiang
USC Viterbi Announces Participation in Department of Commerce Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety
USC will be one of approximately 30 universities helping to advance the development and deployment of safe, trustworthy AI under a new U.S. Government Safety Institute
“I worry that people are not contextualizing their interactions with AI enough”
EPISODE 15 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Jay Pujara
A voice in public policies
From biotech to misinformation, some of today’s biggest policy challenges are informed by researchers at ISI.
Does AI understand common sense?
ISI researchers dive deep into evaluating how well language models can reason about our everyday world.
“Humans are better at humor because AI’s context sensing is still raw”
EPISODE 14 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Jonathan May
“I want to help a student write a thesis on artificial general intelligence”
EPISODE 13 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know his researchers. This week: Mayank Kejriwal
Looking Back on the Incredible Undertakings of AI4Health in 2023
The Center on AI Research for Health debuted projects on radiation oncology, neurodegenerative diseases and mental health