Written by Usama Fayyad Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, Founder and Chairman, Open Insights.

“It is yet another layer of dehumanization,” Barbara Larson, a professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, told me.

The 15 mass shootings this year are the most during the first 100 days of a calendar year since 2009, when 16 had occurred by April 10, according to a mass killings database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

The broad bucket of Covid-related tort cases that lawyers here and elsewhere in the country are pursuing are “hard cases to bring,” says Wendy Parmet, the faculty co-director at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. 

“Once the fire starts going, everything inside the battery will burn,” said K.M. Abraham, a lithium-ion battery expert and former professor at Northeastern University.

David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, called sharing of sensitive videos and images by Tesla employees “morally reprehensible.”

David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, called sharing of sensitive videos and images by Tesla employees ‘morally reprehensible’.

“There is no incentive for elected officials to stop doubling down on these approaches,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. 

This week I spoke with several people who are hard at work on various aspects of this endeavor. Among them: Audrey Tang, the minister of digital affairs for Taiwan; Divya Siddarth, a founder, with Saffron Huang, of the Collective Intelligence Project; Colin Megill, president of the board of the Computational Democracy Project; and Beth Simone Noveck, […]

As a recent paper from researchers at Northeastern University and MIT explains, LLM’s tend to “hallucinate” (an industry term for making things up) the further down a list of subtasks that one gets.

“AI is a powerful tool for understanding the resilience of transportation, healthcare, water, energy, and communications systems in response to extreme weather,” Auroop Ganguly, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, told Lifewire in an email interview.

When it comes to eating at restaurants, it’s worth avoiding eating uncooked foods like salads and looking for places where people who come into contact with your food openly wear gloves, Professor Darin Detwiler of food safety at Northeastern University in Boston, US, said.