Provost Kavita Bala explains how higher ed’s nonprofit status gives it a unique position in the development of AI.

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Provost Kavita Bala explains how higher ed’s nonprofit status gives it a unique position in the development of AI.

This is the story of how a two-semester collaboration between the Cornell AI Innovation Hub, graduate students, and the Treasury team transformed a time‑consuming, manual investigation process into a tool that helps staff complete the work more efficiently.

Doctoral student’s project devises an autonomous airspace coordination system built around a real-time simulation and validation technology.

Like many other disciplines, AI is moving fast in veterinary medicine and animal health, but the data infrastructure hasn’t kept pace.
Fortunately, Cornell is picking up the slack. The Building Benchmarks for AI-Driven Veterinary Innovation, funded by the Cornell AI Initiative and part of the Thought Summits series, gathered experts across fields to spark solutions in this emerging area.

A team of Cornell students bested the competition with their invention: an autonomous robot that kills weeds with electricity.

Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, will serve on a blue-ribbon commission charged with developing recommendations on how New York state can protect workers’ economic security while harnessing the economic benefits of AI.

The panelists considered three key issues facing colleges and universities: rapidly advancing technology; an altered relationship with the federal government; and an erosion of public trust in higher education.

Cornell computer scientists will lead the development of safety protocols to shore up AI agents and the code they produce.