‘This is really not a time to find your chatbot BFFs’
The advance of artificial intelligence, we are told, is inevitable. Nothing can stop AI chatbots from entering classrooms, nursing homes, workplaces, even bedrooms.
Artificial Intelligence
Will AI ever outsmart humans? Philosophers weigh in
A September 14 talk, co-hosted by the Division of Arts & Humanities’ Public Culture Project and Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, explored the distinctions between human and artificial intelligence.
First Proof’s second batch of math problems test AI
Humans are still doing the heavy lifting, despite rapid AI progress
AI system automates coding for scientific research
A new AI tool called Empirical Research Assistance can automatically write high-performance scientific software, even outperforming software written by experts.
Cancer turned her into a scientist
Diagnosis transformed Mary Cipperman ’26 into a hyperproductive student researcher with diverse interests in physics, medicine, and AI
Thesis investigates AI-image bias
With artificial intelligence quickly becoming ingrained in everyday life, psychology and government double-concentrator Gauri Sood ’26 is skeptical about non-human technologies mimicking human experiences without bias.
Interloper or interlocutor? Debating AI’s impact on social interactions
A recent event, hosted by the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, interrogated the technology’s role in human relationships.
The ‘atomic bomb’ of AI-driven science
Harvard scientists describe promise and peril of accelerating technologies
‘Silicon Valley has seen a ghost’
To a packed audience, author of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” talks real stakes of “superhuman” AI threats.
Assignment: Walk that robot across campus
Three robots walked into the Science Center, their human handlers trailing several feet behind. Within seconds, a crowd circled the cute one, a jaunty silver contraption.