Bronwyn Bridges, dressed in bright red, poses for a portrait.

Innovator wants to improve access to care for Parkinson’s patients

With the AI-powered diagnostic tool PRIMS, Bronwyn Bridges wants to broaden access to care for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Ken Duffy stands in dim blue light as handwritten equations, geometric diagrams and streaks of light are projected over him and the dark background.

AI is solving math problems that stumped humans. What comes next?

Gloved hands hold a tablet showing a blue-tinted X-ray of the colon, with a stethoscope on the desk behind.

AI is helping pathologists find harmful lesions the eye can’t see

Monfared, in glasses and a dark sweater over a white collared shirt, stands with hands clasped among round white pendant lights and blue light in a dim interior, framed by a blurred foreground.

This device aims to detect a pressure injury before it becomes deadly

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Denise Garcia, a Northeastern University professor, speaks to an audience on the university’s London campus during a presentation on global AI diplomacy and the risks of insufficient regulation of AI weaponry.

Expert wants to move AI governance from principles to practice

On the London campus, Denise Garcia, a visiting professor from Boston, warns of the dangers of not properly regulating use of AI weaponry.
A robot head projected on to a computer screen, with a blurred figure passing by.

After weeks of AI doomsday warnings, experts want to shift the debate

The most pressing concerns linked to artificial intelligence are much more grounded in the present, Northeastern experts say. 
Close-up of a microchip on a circuit board lit in blue and red.

This AI-powered chip can offer a deeper look at faulty brain activity

A Northeastern professor is developing a low-power implant that uses machine learning to analyze brain signals in real time.
This illustration photo shows a user interacting with a smartphone app to customize an avatar for a personal artificial intelligence chatbot.

AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, Northeastern study finds

New research outlines how the use of AI chatbots for companionship and support is linked with “severe negative outcomes.”
A robot hand shown hovering over a delete key on a keyboard.

Can you really turn off an AI? The debate over “kill switches”

The industry is grappling with a deceptively simple question: Can we actually turn these systems off when things go sideways?
Raj Harshit Srirangam wearing glasses, his face lit by a laptop screen displaying lines of code, his hands visible on the keyboard in the foreground.

This robotics professor has a new strategy for AI era homework

This Northeastern professor combines homework with in-person quizzes, counting the lower score of the two as the final grade.

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