Consumer Reports and researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University created fake persons to interact with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri. This is data we all need to pay attention to.

A team of researchers at the George Mason University College of Public Health as well as Northeastern University in the US have published research indicating a strong link between exposure to common pesticides and lower sperm counts.

What they’re saying: Lauren Ellis, a doctoral student at Northeastern University who co-authored the new paper, said in a statement that it’s imperative to understand how such chemicals affect human biology given how ubiquitous they are in the environment and food systems.

Shaan Arora and Cory Gill have been hustlers since they started as freshmen at Northeastern University. 

“What’s difficult is these companies aren’t fully transparent with where the data comes from and who is evaluating the models and what their demographic is,” said Sina Fazelpour, a professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, who was not involved in the research.

“Understanding how insecticides affect sperm concentration in humans is critical given their ubiquity in the environment and documented reproductive hazards,” said co-researcher Lauren Ellis, a doctoral student at Northeastern University. 

“AI is presented as a magical box that can do everything,” says Saiph Savage, director of Northeastern University’s Civic AI Lab. “People just simply don’t know that there are human workers behind the scenes.”

By John Bai, an Associate Professor of Finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

 Nicolette Aduama, Senior Associate Director of Northeastern’s Center for the Study of Sport and Society, joined All Things Considered host Arun Rath to give insight into why hazing culture seems stronger than ever. The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Adam Hosein, an associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University who studies the ethics of border policy, said that migrants who had crossed deserts and jungles to flee depravation were acting under “extreme duress” by the time they reached the doorstep of the United States.

Roughly half of the respondents in two newly-released AI surveys — from Northeastern University and Voicebot.ai and Pindrop — said they couldn’t distinguish between synthetic and human-generated content.

“You should never, ever thaw the turkey or other foods on the counter. Thaw your turkey in the refrigerator,” said Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University and author of ”Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”