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You’re Already Using AI: Here’s Where It’s At In Everyday Life, From Facial Recognition To Navigation Apps

Data from a 2018 Northeastern University and Gallup survey found 85% of Americans use at least one of six products with AI elements—these products include navigation apps, ridesharing apps, digital assistants, video or music streaming services, smart home devices and intelligent home personal assistants.
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Abortion Pill Order Threatens FDA’s Power Over Drug Safety

“They don’t give much credence to the FDA” and have “emphasized from their perspective the dangerousness of mifepristone,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Sheraton Boston owners aim to convert part of hotel into dorm space for Northeastern

Northeastern University is the dorm’s “initial tenant,” wrote Joshua Bird, general counsel of Hawkins Way, in a letter this month to the Boston Planning and Development Agency. Hawkins Way has offices in New York and Los Angeles, and bought the Sheraton last February in partnership with Värde Partners, another investment firm.
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Why the workplace is a common site of mass shootings

“It’s quite possible there will be an increase in these kinds of killings when people who have been working remotely start to return,” James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, told NBC News in April 2021. According to the Violence Project, most of these mass shootings — 70 percent — involved an employment […]
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Boston’s original marathon bombing memorial lives a quiet afterlife in a West Roxbury archive

Also, the items in West Roxbury can be viewed almost effortlessly at a digital archive maintained by Northeastern University — though those pixelated equivalents lack the evocative power of their physical counterparts.
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Mass. business confidence falls in March

“We are in this period of uncertainty,” said Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.
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Covid Battle Lines Moving from Emergency Room to Courtroom

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.
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Some experts fear rise in medical misinformation following RFK Jr.’s presidential announcement

Dr. Elizabeth Glowacki, a health communication researcher at Northeastern University, told ABC News she is worried about Kennedy targeting marginalized communities, after he produced an anti-vaccine film about the dangers of vaccines aimed at Black and Hispanic people during the pandemic.
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What the Supreme Court’s decision in the legal fight over abortion pills means for access to mifepristone

“This is opening the door to basically anybody challenging any drug that they disapprove of on the theory that somebody might get hurt,” said Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.
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Some experts fear rise in medical misinformation following RFK Jr.’s presidential announcement

Dr. Elizabeth Glowacki, a health communication researcher at Northeastern University, told ABC News she is worried about Kennedy targeting marginalized communities, after he produced an anti-vaccine film about the dangers of vaccines aimed at Black and Hispanic people during the pandemic.
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A Right-Wing Judge Said The FDA Shouldn’t Have Approved The Abortion Pill. What Now?

“The dueling decisions leave the FDA and health care providers in a very difficult situation that only the Supreme Court can fully resolve,” Wendy Parmet, professor of law at Northeastern University, said in a statement.
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Boston needs to get smarter about AI

We should be talking more seriously about the latter. The dangers of AI are one reason that thousands of leaders, including researchers at MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern, signed an open letter last month proposing a six-month pause on developing systems more advanced than OpenAI’s GPT-4.