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Protecting the vulnerable, or automating harm? AI’s double-edged role in spotting abuse
Aislinn Conrad, University of Iowa
Artificial intelligence is rapidly being adopted to help prevent abuse and protect vulnerable people...
RFK Jr’s shakeup of vaccine advisory committee raises worries about scientific...
Santosh Kumar Gautam, University of Notre Dame
On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a...
What does Israel’s strike mean for US policy on Iran and...
Javed Ali, University of Michigan
Israel’s strike on Iranian nuclear and military facilities has pushed the Middle East one...
Forcible removal of US Sen. Alex Padilla signals a dangerous shift...
Charlie Hunt, Boise State University
Democratic leaders and a lone Republican senator, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, quickly decried the treatment...
Colorado’s fentanyl criminalization bill won’t solve the opioid epidemic, say the...
Katherine LeMasters, University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado passed the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Bill in May 2022. The legislation...
Data on sexual orientation and gender is critical to public health...
John R. Blosnich, University of Southern California
As part of the Trump administration’s efforts aimed at stopping diversity, equity...
Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making...
Andrew Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University
Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation – and the...
AI literacy: What it is, what it isn’t, who needs it...
Daniel S. Schiff, Purdue University; Arne Bewersdorff, Technical University of Munich, and Marie Hornberger, Technical University of Munich
It...