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Rethinking AI Governance: A Bold Plan for Equity and Accountability

A new AI governance framework prioritizes equity from the start, ensuring fairness and accountability in AI development. By tackling bias and promoting inclusivity, this approach seeks to protect marginalized communities while fostering responsible AI innovation.

30 Jan 2025

AI-Powered Protein Editing Revolutionizes Synthetic Biology

Researchers have developed ProtET, a cutting-edge AI model that uses multi-modal learning to enable precise, text-guided protein editing, paving the way for breakthroughs in biotechnology and medicine.

29 Jan 2025

AI Model EpiBERT Predicts Gene Expression by Unlocking DNA’s Hidden Regulatory Code

Scientists have developed EpiBERT, an AI model that predicts gene expression by decoding chromatin accessibility and regulatory grammar across human cell types.

29 Jan 2025

Cutting-Edge AI & VR System Helps Students with Autism Navigate Social Life

University of Kansas researchers are enhancing their VR-based social skills training system for students with disabilities by integrating AI, creating a more immersive and natural learning experience.

29 Jan 2025

Explainable AI Boosts Wind Power Forecasting for Smarter Energy Grids

Researchers at EPFL's WiRE Lab have integrated explainable AI (XAI) into wind power forecasting models, improving transparency and reliability in predicting wind energy generation. Their study shows that XAI can identify key input variables, reducing uncertainty and making wind power more competitive in the energy market.

29 Jan 2025

AI Thrives in Real-World Chaos After Training in Calm, Simulated Environments

MIT researchers discovered that training AI agents in noise-free simulated environments, termed the "indoor training effect," can improve their performance in noisy real-world scenarios, challenging the conventional wisdom of matching training and testing environments. This phenomenon was observed across various Atari games and could lead to better AI training methods.

29 Jan 2025

AI Transforms Fuel Cell Materials Discovery, Boosting Efficiency and Innovation

AI is revolutionizing fuel cell research by accelerating material discovery, optimizing system parameters, and overcoming traditional trial-and-error limitations.

28 Jan 2025

Policymakers Urged to Regulate AI in Education to Prevent Digital Divide

AI’s role in education took center stage at Westminster’s Evidence Week, where policymakers were urged to shape regulations that ensure equitable and effective use of AI in classrooms while addressing potential digital divides.

28 Jan 2025

AI Struggles Where Rats Excel: A New Look at Vision and Intelligence

Rats outperform artificial neural networks in object recognition, using superior generalization strategies that remain stable across transformations.

28 Jan 2025

Can AI Learn Like a Child? Scientists Say Yes!

Research explores how artificial agents can learn language through real-world interactions, mimicking human cognitive processes, rather than relying on vast text-based datasets like traditional AI models.

28 Jan 2025

Hackers vs. Defenders: How AI Is Changing the Cybersecurity Game

Cyber risk is a top concern for organizations, with AI playing a dual role in both cyber defense and cyber-attacks. The Gordon-Loeb Model provides a cost-benefit framework for optimizing cybersecurity investments.

28 Jan 2025

Researchers Chart Roadmap for Brain-Like Computing to Outpace Traditional AI

Neuromorphic computing systems must scale by emulating the brain’s energy-efficient sparsity, hierarchical organization, and dynamic learning, while addressing hardware/software co-design and collaboration gaps. Researchers outline a roadmap to bridge lab prototypes to real-world AI, robotics, and healthcare applications through interdisciplinary innovation.

23 Jan 2025

Smarter Solar: AI Finds High-Efficiency Materials Faster Than Ever

Researchers used AI to analyze a million potential molecules for perovskite solar cells, achieving a breakthrough with just 150 targeted experiments, improving efficiency to 26.2%.

23 Jan 2025

London Cab Drivers Outsmart AI in Complex Route Planning

Expert London taxi drivers prioritize complex, non-local junctions during route planning, revealing unique cognitive strategies distinct from AI algorithms in large-scale real-world environments.

23 Jan 2025

Why AI Adoption Hinges on Employee Feelings, Not Just Features

Successful AI adoption isn't just about technology; it's about managing employees' emotions and trust. Research from Aalto University shows that without addressing emotional responses, companies struggle to capitalize on AI's potential, with four in five failing to achieve expected benefits.

23 Jan 2025

Embodied AI Model Learns Like a Toddler, Revealing Secrets of Cognitive Development

Researchers at OIST have developed an embodied intelligence model that mimics how children learn to generalize by combining sensory inputs and language, offering insights into cognitive development and AI transparency.

22 Jan 2025

AI Traces Agricultural Chemicals’ Deadly Path Through UK Freshwater Networks

Researchers used AI-powered analysis of 52 UK lakes to identify insecticides, fungicides, and heavy metals as top drivers of freshwater biodiversity loss, revealing widespread harm to non-target species and actionable targets for conservation.

22 Jan 2025

West Virginia University Researchers Bring AI to the Humanities Classroom

Researchers at West Virginia University are developing an interdisciplinary curriculum to equip humanities faculty with the tools to explore AI's ethical, social, and technical dimensions and integrate AI into their courses.

22 Jan 2025

Thinner Ice, Faster Flow: AI Redraws Alps’ Ice Sheet Dynamics

Researchers at the University of Lausanne used physics-driven AI to simulate the Alps’ last ice age at 300-meter resolution, reducing ice thickness mismatches by 200–450% and confirming trimlines as true ice elevation markers. The model, accelerated by GPUs, ran 100 simulations in days, revealing faster ice flow in valleys and offering insights for paleoclimate and future ice sheet projections.

22 Jan 2025

Rethinking AI: Designing Humane Autonomous Technologies for Better Lives

This book explores ethical, humane, and multidisciplinary perspectives on AI and autonomous systems, examining their impact on society, work, and human well-being.

21 Jan 2025