As we adopt AI more widely in our work and personal lives, the impact of reduced information diversity becomes more and more of a problem.

For inventive and revelatory reporting on Meta that detailed the technology company’s willingness to expose users, including children, to scams and AI manipulation.

The state of New Mexico alleged that Facebook’s algorithms and lack of protections for young users put them at risk of harms including sexual abuse.

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To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field

Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Machines still face hurdles in identifying fresh research paths, study suggests

Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications NOT-OD-25-132. NIH

A federal judge on Friday prevented the National Science Foundation from sharply cutting research funding provided to universities in the latest legal setback to efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to slash government support of research at major academic institutions.

"I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," the judge said.

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a chatbot.

A growing body of research suggests that the recent generation of large language model (LLMs) excel, and in many cases outpace humans, at writing p...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to implement AI tools throughout the agency to assist in conducting scientific reviews following the successful completion of a pilot program ...

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

Federal Judge Angel Kelly has extended her temporary hold on NIH's plan to cap its payment of indirect research grant costs to 15%.

Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.

Robert Jones plans to step down as University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign chancellor and vice president of the University of Illinois System at the end of the current academic year, bringing what wil...

Disinformation Disinformation is false or misleading information created and spread to advance policy, political, economic or ideological goals. It is sometimes used by industries, governments, and ot...

Fighting AI-based disinformation in political campaigns by identifying manipulated media.

Introducing Gemini — Google’s newest and most capable AI model. Watch Google DeepMind Research Scientist Sebastian Nowozin and Software Engineer Taylor Apple...

CounterCloud is an experiment in autonomous (mass) social engineering using LLMs and public media. The system ran for a few days during Q2 2023.NB - please n...