Skip to content
Find coverage of Northeastern University in the press.
The Boston Globe logo.

Doctors find AI text-to-image generators perpetuate societal biases

“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.
U.S. News

Review Links Pesticides to Lower Sperm Quality in Men

“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. 
Wired logo

Underage Workers Are Training AI

“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.”
Harvard Business Review Logo

Your Company Will Need Remote Work as Extreme Weather Gets Worse

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

Experts say the rise in hazing incidents is more complicated than we think

 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.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/us/border-wall-migrant-injuries.html

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.
The NPR Logo

Worried about AI hijacking your voice for a deepfake? This tool could help

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.
Huffington Post Logo

The Biggest Thanksgiving Turkey Mistakes, According To Food Safety Experts

“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.”
Fox News

Your smart assistant is listening, but does that impact the ads you see?

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.
Fox 2

Supreme Court says it will formally adopt a code of ethics for the first time

 Dan Urman with Northeastern University School of Law joined LiveNOW from FOX’s Josh Breslow to discuss the question many have asked – could Justice Thomas be impeached as a result?

New research uncovers a pseudonym potentially used by author Louisa May Alcott

Radio Boston learns more about new research that links author Louisa May Alcott with more than a dozen titles written under a previously undiscovered pseudonym.
Daily Mail

I’m an ex-FDA food safety expert and here are the 10 things I would NEVER do in the kitchen

Leaving food out of the fridge for more than two hours can lead to a risky temperature drop, Dr Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston and former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com.