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AI Headlines from Around the University
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AI can write your college essay, but it won’t sound like you
September 25, 2025
Students who plan to use ChatGPT to write their college admissions essays should think twice: Artificial intelligence tools write highly generic personal narratives, even when prompted to write from the perspective of someone with a certain race or gender.
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Balancing the promise of health AI with its carbon costs
September 17, 2025
The health care industry is increasingly relying on AI – in responding to patient queries, for example – and a new Cornell study shows how decision-makers can use real-world data to build sustainability into new systems.
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Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails
September 15, 2025
A Cornell historian argues in a new paper that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.
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Empire AI: Cornell call for compute resource proposals
August 7, 2025
Empire AI is now soliciting proposals from Cornell faculty and researchers to use the extended “Alpha” machine with 144 H100 GPUs, as well as the new “Beta” machine that is expected to come online in December.
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National Science Foundation announces Cornell-led AI Materials Institute
July 29, 2025
The NSF, in partnership with Intel, will invest $20 million over five years to establish the Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute at Cornell, as part of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
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AI tool helps students build confidence speaking foreign languages
July 17, 2025
The technology, developed by a Cornell doctoral candidate, can simulate conversations with different accents and dialects and gives feedback to users on their grammar and pronunciation.
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Optimism about AI lowest in US, says A&S dean
July 17, 2025
Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, shared takeaways from his decade-long AI research during a lecture kicking off the Cornell University School of Continuing Education’s Summer Events Series.
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Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds
July 14, 2025
New Cornell research has implications for the increasing number of online platforms that are incorporating chatbots based on large language models.
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SAIL Sets a Course for Smarter Trade Compliance With AI
July 2, 2025
As tariffs shift and trade regulations grow more complex, a team of Cornell Tech students is developing a smarter solution to address modern trade compliance challenges. Their company, SAIL, is steering into uncharted waters with purpose — and a deep belief that solving the right problem can unlock a new wave of innovation.