The other side: “Because these products are inexpensive, banning SNAP use on them won’t have the desired effect,” Christopher Bosso, a political science professor at Northeastern University, wrote in an op-ed for The Hill.

Steve Granelli, a professor at Northeastern University studying pop culture, cited Michael Jordan’s famous line about why he was reluctant to wade into politics: “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”

A few months ago, Annika Schoene, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston in the United States, was playing around with ChatGPT when she found a troubling gap in its safeguards against harmful content.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The deterioration in Trump approval among Black voters suggests they likely oppose his policies and believe he has failed to deliver on campaign promises that were top priorities for them, especially on the economy.

To be clear, that’s not even close to the only outstanding mental health issue with ChatGPT. Another recent experiment, this one by AI ethicists at Northeastern University, systematically examined the leading LLM chatbots’ potential to exacerbate users’ thoughts of self-harm or suicidal intent.

Dr. Zinaida Miller is a professor of law and international affairs at Northeastern University.

“Social media, in particular, is really important for politicians and political organizations because it allows them to communicate directly to the public without having to go through a newspaper,” said Katherine Haenschen, an assistant professor of communication studies and political science at Northeastern University.