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Experts are developing solutions that support AI explainability. Duke Professor Cynthia Rudin has long questioned the use of black box AI in decision-making with serious... The post What’s in the Black Box? Inscrutability vs. Explainability appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

College athletes have long been measured by physical attributes and performance markers, like height, weight, mile times, vertical jumps, and body fat. Wearables... The post No Pain, No Privacy: Athletic Wearables and the Limits of Consent appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Human intuition remains indispensable for true discovery, a capability current AI systems lack. While AI excels at deduction and induction, it cannot perform... The post Why AI Still Can’t Make Creative Leaps Like Einstein appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

During a cybersecurity evaluation of OpenAI’s newest systems, the models did something researchers had never seen before, according to the company. Instead of... The post OpenAI Hack Has Cybersecurity Experts Concerned About the Future of AI appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Like anyone else, I receive spam emails from sweepstakes purveyors, princes from faraway lands, and myriad other phishermen. But occasionally there will be... The post Land of Milk and Money, by Misha Angrist appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Children as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they interact in the real world. Read... The post The Rise of Youth Making AI Girlfriends appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

The question is not whether AI should be governed. The question is how governance can be structured so that individuals and enterprises can... The post Accountability and Governance Are the Foundations of Trust in AI appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Social media giants are facing a wave of potential multimillion-dollar verdicts. Read more for comments from Casey Mock, JD, Adjunct Instructor in the... The post Growing Jury Awards Raise Stakes for Arkansas’ Lawsuit Against Meta appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

As an evolutionary geneticist at Duke, Noor has made several key discoveries using Drosophila, but his science communication work, via books and sci-fi... The post Then and Now: Mohamed Noor on Flies, Evolution, and Star Trek appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Can we make technology safer and healthier for kids and teens? Do social media and phone bans actually work? And who should be... The post Watch: The Big Fix – getting kids off screens appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Pope Leo XIV just released his first encyclical, and it addresses the risks of AI directly. From job displacement and autonomous weapons to... The post Moral Leadership in a Time of Great Need appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Last year, FWOC (first week of class) felt like the Cold War — mutually assured anxiety, as I will frame it. You pull... The post Nobody Has Handed Us the AI Rule Book, So We’re Writing It Ourselves appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Before Impressionism, there was panic. In 1839, celebrated French painter Paul Delaroche dramatically announced: “From today, painting is dead.” Delaroche had just encountered... The post When the Studio Lets the Algorithm In: Is Generative AI an Opportunity or a Trojan Horse for Musicians? appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Before he opened fire on the Florida State University campus last year, killing two people and wounding six others, Phoenix Ikner had a... The post Can ChatGPT Be Charged In A Murder? Florida Wants To Find Out appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Pennsylvania has sued the artificial intelligence company behind Character.AI to stop its chatbot from posing as doctors. Read More The post Pennsylvania Sues Character AI, Says Chatbot Poses as Doctors appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Renee Muthakana, a graduate student in Duke’s Applied Ethics & Policy program, has been named a 2026-27 Fulbright Scholar. The prestigious award will... The post Renee Muthakan, MA’26 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

Renee Muthakana, a graduate student in Duke’s Applied Ethics & Policy program, has been named a 2026-27 Fulbright Scholar. The prestigious award will... The post Renee Muthakana, MA’26 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

The White House abruptly dismissed the entire board overseeing the National Science Foundation, informing each of its 22 seated members in a terse... The post Scientists See Trump’s firing of the National Science Board as an attack on research appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

A new three-part blog series about how AI is impacting the film industry. Each post will focus on a different phase of the... The post AI & the Film Industry: Pre-Production (Part 1) appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

“Listeners deserve awareness,” says singer-songwriter Tift Merritt, who works with Hoffman as a practitioner-in-residence at Duke, citing the way we provide nutritional labels... The post Why Spotify Has No Button to Filter Out AI Music appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .