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Cornell's new Humanities, Social Sciences + AI initiative, administered by A&S, aims to meet the urgent need to understand AI’s implications for culture, governance, ethics, communication, creativity, labor & social organization.
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The A&S-led AI initiative includes a program for postdoctoral fellows; a Distinguished Visitors and AI Practitioners-in-Residence Program; and a new interdisciplinary university-wide minor, AI & Society,
Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 has been named the inaugural Freedom and Free Societies Professor at Cornell. He will be on campus in March 2027 to teach a one-credit @cornellgov course and give a public lecture March 5.
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Mathematics is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature, Cornell professor @stevenstrogatz writes in @TheAtlantic. As AI solves problems and changes the field, is mathematics for the machines now?
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A new A&S course, Career BRIDGE (Building Readiness, Insight, Direction, Growth, & Experience), will help students gain professional development skills and prepare for the workforce. It will include a spring break career trek to NYC to network.
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“To succeed with AI in the workplace, you need to know how to use the AI,” Prof @PhoebeSengers told @Forbes. AI literacy learned from classes is important, but it’s most useful when combined with hands-on experience, she says.
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In China, the unemployed “pretending to go to work allows people to save face,” Prof. Diana Fu told @usnews , “helping the Chinese government to stave off the hard choice between leaping ahead in automation and protecting job security.”
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Talking w/a chatbot in an experiment for @ 6 minutes “changed people’s minds meaningfully about who to vote for,” Prof. @DG_Rand told @Marketplace , 3 to 4 times greater an effect than watching a standard political ad.
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Scientific instruments are getting unpacked, assembled and prepped for the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope's first observations. Here's an update on instrument installation and a list of the telescope's first missions:
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“Language, Memory, Future:” Smoke dancers, American Sign Language poetry and explorations of endangered languages will highlight a series of events, beginning Thursday, that celebrate the importance of language throughout U.S. history. @CornellCAS news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
As mathematicians work through challenges related to AI, Cornell math faculty members are leading the field, winning grants to build mathematical tools for AI safety and to develop tools for math researchers facing a "new reality" of AI influence.
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As mathematicians work through challenges related to artificial intelligence, @CornellCAS math faculty members are leading the field, with work integrating AI into math and mathematics into AI. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
“Little things can have a large impact."
Inspired by termites, fireflies & other instances in nature, @CornellPhysics researchers have made robots that for the first time can sense the temperature of their surroundings and react together to change it.
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Remembering Barbara Finlay, the W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology Emerita at @CornellCAS. An award-winning scholar who challenged traditional thinking regarding psychology and brain function, Finlay died Sept. 12, at age 75. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
Tech utopian initiatives “have big aspirations," @Cornellhistory professor Raymond Craib says in @nytimes : "They have extrapolated out of their crypto world that they can now create some kind of new country.…Thus far these haven’t gone particularly well”
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Why should we care whether humans still understand mathematics if AI can solve the problems for us? Fair question. But we can say this at least: Historically, understanding has been a route to predictive power — with enormous benefits for our lives.
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Night transformed: In her new book, “Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution,” science historian Sara B. Pritchard of @CornellCAS describes a massive spike in artificial light in the 21st century, and actions that are necessary. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
History teaches us that maps have political consequences, @STSCornell scholar Christine Leuenberger writes in an opinion article for @MSNOWNews: "Maps may appear to be objective and unbiased representations, but they are inevitably, inherently selective."
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AI is effective in shifting a voter's opinion about presidential candidates or proposed policy, according to research by @CornellPsychDpt faculty members @DG_Rand and @GordPennycook – quoted in @USATODAY reporting on chatbot involvement in the midterms
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