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A research group led by Matthew Wilkens, associate professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, is the recent recipient of a Schmidt Sciences award to leverage AI in the humanities to unlock new insights in human history and culture.
At 15, Tobias Weinberg lost the ability to speak – now as a Ph.D. student at Cornell Tech, he’s using AI to improve the technologies he and others with speech disabilities rely on to communicate.
A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.
Cornell has won three of 15 major grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, awarded to leverage artificial intelligence in the fight against climate change and environmental challenges.
Researchers at Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers engaged directly with 15 content moderators on Reddit to see exactly how they try to preserve the news sharing site’s humanity in an increasingly AI-infused world.
Cornell Tech hosted the inaugural Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit on Oct. 9-10 on its Roosevelt Island campus, bringing together researchers, technologists, and community advocates to explore how disability and accessibility intersect with innovation. The summit welcomed speakers, students, faculty, alumni, and community members from Cornell’s Ithaca campus, New York City, and around the United States.
Two new grants from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth will fund ILR research aimed at providing insights to policymakers, union leaders, managers and others who are shaping the future of AI in the workplace.
The artificial intelligence models underlying popular chatbots and content moderation systems struggle to identify offensive, ableist social media posts in English – and perform even worse in Hindi, new Cornell research finds.
