But there are big downsides. For one thing, AIs don’t think  in the way humans do. “This thing is not intelligence. It has no understanding of what it’s saying,” Usama Fayyad, executive director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, told the Wall Street Journal’s “The Future or Everything” podcast this month.

Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, said she doesn’t recall seeing a senior state health official tell parents they can ignore a measles control policy before. 

Formerly the director of policy research at the AI Now Institute, the research institute studying the social implications of AI, and a senior policy advisor for data and democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Richardson has been an assistant professor of law and political science at Northeastern University since 2021. 

Jennie Stephens: professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, Northeastern University, climate justice fellow, Harvard Radcliffe; Author, “Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy”

“It most likely seems like a software update gone wrong,” said Northeastern University professor Josep Jornet said, adding that the update probably worked on some hardware and not others.

He sought to help Black people who wanted to serve in law enforcement or the courts, forming the George Lewis Ruffin Society at Northeastern University in 1984. The society organized courses to prep Boston police officers of color for preparatory exams starting in 1985, the biography says.

“Whereas there are hundreds of mass shooters, you can count the number of transgender and nonbinary assailants on one hand and still have unused fingers,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University, who is also a contributing columnist to USA TODAY.

Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, is the co-author of the book “What Works in Community News.” The book is described as “A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time.”

There does tend to be a peak in colds during the winter months, but this has historically been put down to more people being indoors and closer together. ut researchers from Northeastern University have also found there might at least be something to the urban legends

The research, led by Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, targets a vulnerability in the data transmission cables within most modern cameras. These cables unintentionally act as radio antennas, leaking electromagnetic information that can be picked up and decoded to reveal real-time video.

“These [methadone] regulations were never built on a scientific foundation,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.