Notes on the News
CASMI Director Kristian Hammond responds to recent AI headlines. He is the Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, director of Northwestern’s Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program (MSAI), the co-founder of the Artificial Intelligence company Narrative Science (acquired by Salesforce), the faculty lead of Northwestern’s CS + X initiative, and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Journalists may use these insights in their reporting with proper attribution. If you are a journalist who would like to interview Dr. Hammond, email kristian.hammond@northwestern.edu. You may also contact Senior Science and Engineering Editor Amanda Morris at amandamo@northwestern.edu or 847-467-6790, or contact Northwestern Media Relations at media@northwestern.edu or 847- 491-5001.
December 2024
December 6: Recognizing the risks of speech-to-text in medicine and acting on them
December 5: Contrasting AI's financial and emotional repercussions
November 2024
November 27: AI integration into workflow
November 26: AI integration in business tools: transforming the workspace
November 25: AI integration as the next chapter
November 11: Why the 'race to the bottom' signals a new era of AI innovation
October 2024
October 18: Are we repeating the past with OpenAI's Swarm and o-1 platforms?
October 17: Nobel Prize honors innovators shaping the future through AI
October 14: Embracing AI for personalized learning
October 11: OpenAI's Strawberry project bridges the gap between conversation and reasoning
October 9: Turning failure into the foundation for AI success
October 7: How Microsoft is addressing AI hallucinations
October 4: Why AI projects fail without proper integration and focus
September 2024
September 10: Parents put trust in Waymo’s self-driving cars for safer school runs
September 9: The complex promise and perils of AI in policing
September 6: Degenerative AI: The risks of training systems on their own data
August 2024
August 27: The AI summarization dilemma: When good enough isn’t enough
August 26: The hallucination problem: A feature, not a bug
August 23: A step forward with the Kids Online Safety Act—but with caution
August 22: Time to roll up your sleeves: The real work for generative AI begins
August 21: Trump's deepfake strategy: Eroding truth with a world of lies
August 12: OpenAI’s Strawberry: A step towards advanced reasoning in AI
August 7: Misinformation at scale: Elon Musk's Grok and the battle for truth
August 6: OpenAI: The battle over search
August 5: The peril of perfection: Google's Gemini ad and the cost of thoughtfulness
August 1: AI, math, and language: Bridging the divide
July 2024
July 30: Testing large language models
July 24: AI and education
July 23: Artificial intelligence's role in law
July 18: Microsoft and Apple won't join OpenAI board seats: A setback for AI progress
July 15: OpenAI’s quest for artificial general intelligence: Vision or mirage?
July 11: The AI dilemma: Google's greenhouse gas emissions surge
June 2024
June 28: Apple's pragmatic AI: A smarter approach to everyday integration
June 12: The open letter: A disappointing focus on legalities over critical issues
June 10: Reflecting on Blockbuster as we consider the future of work
June 4: Trust is not a marketing issue
June 3: The risk of Google’s shift from search engine to answer machine
May 2024
May 30: The new dawn of AI evaluation: NIST's ARIA
May 29: Navigating the Library of Babel in the age of AI
May 21: OpenAI's misstep with Scarlett Johansson's voice: A case study in tone deafness
May 20: Funding AI: Balancing speed and safety
May 3: Meta's AI chatbot causing some confusion
May 1: Suite of approaches that can be applied to uncover possible harm
April 2024
April 25: Recent comments on the AI arms race
April 23: How educators and students should use language models
April 22: Use of AI in war
April 12: Pornographic deepfakes in schools
April 11: Pennsylvania AI buyer beware bill
April 11: Meta's Nick Clegg downplays AI election fears
April 10: Adam Schiff AI copyright bill
April 9: How companies may be 'acting irresponsibly' when training AI models
April 8: China's use of AI to create propaganda in elections
April 5: EU-US collaboration on AI safety
April 3: Musical artists' warning about AI use
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