The Doomsday Clock inches ever closer to midnight
The Doomsday Clock is now 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been in its history. Created in 1947, the clock is set…
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The death of fixed pricing
Despite the significant role price plays in consumers’ buying habits, dynamic pricing threatens to reshape how customers understand price. Dynamic pricing, a strategy that adjusts…
AI nudification tools present safety and privacy
An alarming rise in artificial intelligence (AI) intimate deepfakes has resulted in global backlash against chatbots and raised serious concerns over “nudification” applications. Elon Musk’s…
U of M Media Lab organizes upcoming AI ethics lecture
For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the faculty of arts…
The ‘wicked problem’ of AI in assessment
A new 2025 study reveals artificial intelligence (AI) use in assessments as a “wicked problem,” or a problem “that [defies] neat solutions,” forcing educators to…
Is AI dependency a choice or a trap?
ChatGPT has become the leading artificial intelligence (AI) large language model (LLM) since its introduction in 2022. It now receives nearly six billion monthly site…
Crop or weed?
Alex Senden, a second-year master’s student in the U of M’s department of computer science, is developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools that could help researchers…
Teaming up with AI in the real world
Artificial intelligence (AI) research is no longer limited to theory. Now, it’s about how systems function in real-world settings and collaborate with people. At the…
Making AI more transparent
Ariful Islam Anik, a PhD candidate in the department of computer science at the U of M, has spent the past seven years focused on…
Should we trust generative AI companies?
Generative AI (GenAI) does not generate new content, it generates a mirror. We are looking into our past, reflected over and over, and told that…