The agency’s next step may involve increasing liability for cases in which the platforms’ AI tools and targeting platforms are used to help buyers create misleading ads or boost posts that include false claims without subjecting the final products to review by humans, said Alexandra J. Roberts, professor of law and media at Northeastern University.

“If you’re making an egg to make a baby, the bar for quality is off the charts, because you can’t screw it up,” said Jonathan Tilly, a professor of biology who studies stem cells at Northeastern University.

The program was our collective response to a call to action from then-Mayor Thomas Menino, after research from Northeastern University and the Boston Private Industry Council found that only about 1 in 3 Boston students who enrolled in college actually earned a degree.

“The hoodie helps him look more unassuming, like he’s not a threat to national security,” said Laura Huang, distinguished professor of entrepreneurship at Northeastern University. “And that by association, the company that he’s the CEO of also is not a threat.”

The CDC has a data collection problem when it comes to tracking Covid vaccinations — at least that’s what the Covid States Project, a collaboration of researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern universities, says.

“A very small group of individuals with a lot of financing, they’re pushing for this,” says Jennie Stephens, a professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University. “The advocates are very good fundraisers.”

“There was a strategic move of these corporations to tap into the buying power of the (Muslim) community that they’ve been kind of ignoring for a while,” said Liz Bucar, religious ethicist at Northeastern University in Boston and author of “Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.”

And research from Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute indicates that 73 percent of the United States food supply is ultra-processed.