Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom warns that AI companions could ease loneliness but may corrode users' ability to interact with real people. Bloom says chatbots never challenge users, potentially …
Olin Shivers recounts the history of T, a Lisp implementation developed at Yale in the early 1980s by Jonathan Rees, Dan Weld, and himself, which set a standard for clean design. The project emerged f…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artifici…
Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller warns that widespread fear of AI-driven job losses could become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as negative narratives about AI's impact on employment may cause con…
Yale University researchers proposed a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) that would treat generative AI models trained on open-source code as derivative works, requiring developers to disclose mod…
Researchers and clinicians are pushing for mandatory guardrails on AI chatbots after studies linked the technology to reinforced delusions and multiple suicides, including the death of a Florida teena…