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Cornell Tech Hosts First-Ever Summit on Disability, Access, and AI
October 15, 2025
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.
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Using AI to learn quantum complexity
October 15, 2025
Cornell physicists and computer scientists have developed a machine learning architecture inspired by the large language models (LLMs) behind ChatGPT to help them study the vastly complicated interactions that happen when nature’s smallest particles interact.
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AI models often fail to identify ableism across cultures
October 14, 2025
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.
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Two grants to study AI and worker voice awarded to ILR
October 13, 2025
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.
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Pain tolerance increases during social interaction in VR
October 1, 2025
Researchers in the Virtual Embodiment Lab found that engagement in social virtual reality, whether with loved ones or total strangers, enhances pain tolerance.
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Provost initiative to envision Cornell’s long-term future
October 1, 2025
A faculty-led committee will explore how the university can evolve to best serve future generations while pursuing its core mission.
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Faculty innovate with, and avoid, AI in the classroom
October 1, 2025
At the same time faculty are finding ways to use generative AI tools to help students learn, pen-and-paper assessments are returning to the classroom.
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Models feel hemmed in by AI
September 30, 2025
Using generative AI, fashion designers can use digital photos to adjust models’ features and even deploy fully digital avatars in place of humans. A team including an ILR School researcher has written a paper highlighting models’ challenges.
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‘Bottling’ human intuition for AI-led materials discovery
September 30, 2025
A Cornell researcher and collaborators have developed a machine-learning model that encapsulates and quantifies the valuable intuition of human experts in the quest to discover new quantum materials.