Block Center Media Highlights
2024 Media Highlights
- The Hill, July 5, 2023 – Back to the Future: Look to the 1980s for guidance on AI management
- PwC, April 19, 2023 – Generative AI: What it really means for business
- InformationWeek, January 23, 2023 – How Will the AI Bill of Rights Affect AI Development?
- CMU News, September 2, 2022 – Carnegie Mellon, Region, To Share Benefits of $62.7M Build Back Better Grant
- Technical.ly, July 25, 2022 – AI for good? Why CMU's Block Center funds research into responsible use of the tech
- CMU News, April 19, 2022 – CMU Dean Appointed to National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee
- CMU News, April 6, 2022 – CMU Scopeathon Ties Data Science to Better Communities
- Nature, March 15, 2022 – Impact of automation on long haul trucking operator-hours in the United States
- Reuters, June 2, 2021: Explainer: Tesla drops radar; is Autopilot system safe?
- WESA, May 31, 2021: Anxiety Runs High As Pennsylvania Begins Massive Overhaul Of 60-Year-Old Unemployment Computer System
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 27, 2021: From resilient supply chains to secure data, new commission studies 'geopolitics' of tech
- Bloomberg, May 19, 2021: Waymo Eyes Raising Up to $4 Billion as Leaders’ Exits Sow Doubts
- ExBulletin, May 19, 2021: Increased road fatalities demand improved vehicle technology
- Science Times, May 18, 2021: Having More Women in Groups Increases Collective Intelligence for Decision Making, Study Reveals
- Fast Company, May 18, 2021: Is it time for an algorithm bill of rights? These analysts think so
- BusinessWorld, May 14, 2021: Innovative ‘lifesavers’ on the road
- CNN, May 13, 2021: Wait, does this mean the pandemic is over for vaccinated people?
- CNN, May 13, 2021: Others have tried free doughnuts, beers and gift cards. Now, Ohio is betting millions to improve its vaccination rate
- Financial Times, May 13, 2021: Airbnb pricing algorithm led to increased racial disparities, study finds
- Wired, May 12, 2021: Watch a Snake Robot Go for a Swim
- CMU Tepper School of Business, May 12, 2021: Collective Intelligence Can Be Predicted and Quantified, New Study Finds
- Mind Matters, May 8, 2021: Sci-Fi Could Come to Life if You Fall for a DeepFake Friend
- The Verge, May 7, 2021: The Autonomous Vehicle Market is Shrinking - It's Overdue
- CMU Tepper School of Business, May 7, 2021: Analysis: Businesses Have a Moral Duty to Explain How Algorithms Make Decisions That Affect People
- Futurism, May 4, 2021: Professor Warns of “Nightmare” Bots That Prey on Vulnerable People
- TechRepublic, May 4, 2021: Regulators weigh limiting cryptocurrencies, but need to understand their role first, experts say
- The Daily (University of Washington), May 3, 2021: Expanding accessibility in virtual reality
- Financial Times, April 28, 2021: Covid has shown the subjective nature of risk perception
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 21, 2021: Carnegie Mellon, Heinz Endowments Launch Initiative to Promote Economic Empowerment, Address Inequities in Pittsburgh Region
- Pittsburgh Business Times, April 27, 2021: Proposed amendment to Endless Frontier Act could speed up autonomous vehicle testing
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 21, 2021: Who Is Marginalized In Energy Justice?
- CIO Dive, April 19, 2021: Video conferencing can hurt collaboration. IT has a role in fixing it
- Bloomberg, April 13, 2021: France Short-Haul Flight Ban Points Way Toward Cleaner Aviation
- The Hill, April 8, 2021: Americans are still waiting for stimulus checks — let states and localities distribute them
- Vox, April 7, 2021: Will apps like PayPal and Venmo make financial inequality worse?
- Tech Xplore, April 6, 2021: Inferring what we share by how we share
- Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2021: Smartphone Location Data Can Leave Out Those Most Hit by Covid-19
- Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2021: Robinhood Trader’s Battle Cry: ‘It’s All Just a Game to Me’
- Marketplace, March 25, 2021: Slack’s Walkback of Its New DM Feature Is a Sign of User Power
- Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2021: Marketers Plan Giveaways for Covid-19 Vaccine Recipients
- Foreign Affairs, March 19, 2021: Decoupling Won’t Kill a Green Future
- Philadelphia Inquirer, March 17, 2021: Two Pa. prisons have vaccinated more than 70% of inmates. An incentive program may be making a difference.
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 17, 2021: Two Pa. prisons with incentive program have vaccinated more than 70% of inmates
- WESA, March 8, 2021: Pittsburgh Researchers Use AI To Study Bias in Bollywood, Hollywood Films
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 7, 2021: Looking for work? Some industries are inching toward recovery while others are still struggling
- Pharmacy Times, March 3, 2021: Study: Diabetes Patients' Use of Mobile Health App Found to Improve Health Outcomes, Lower Medical Costs
- WESA, February 25, 2021: Pittsburgh Researchers Use AI To Study Bias in Bollywood, Hollywood Films
- EurekAlert!, February 24, 2021: Diabetes patients use of mobile health app found to improve health outcomes, lower medical costs
- Quartz, February 19, 2021: Uber wants to work with public transit agencies—but first it needs their trust
- Carnegie Mellon University News, February 11, 2021: The Next Four Years of Climate and Environmental Policy
- Mashable, February 8, 2021: As Amazon union vote starts, AFL-CIO's tech think tank considers future of labor
- MIT Technology Review, February 5, 2021: Predictive policing is still racist—whatever data it uses
- Forbes, February 4, 2021: How Secure Are Your Financial Accounts And How To Protect Yourself
- Salon, February 3, 2021: Don’t blame Fox News for the attack on the Capitol
- Inside Big Data, January 30, 2021: Federal Reserve Considering Formal Request for Public Feedback about the Adoption of AI in the Financial Services Sector
- IEEE Spectrum, January 19, 2021: It’s Too Easy to Hide Bias in Deep-Learning Systems
- Chicago Booth Review, January 4, 2021: ‘Mental money laundering’ lifts constraints on spending morally questionable income
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 16, 2020: Pandemic scrambles seasonal hiring patterns
- Fast Company, November 5, 2020: Why serendipitous interactions in the office made us feel productive
- Forbes, October 29, 2020: New Data Shows Women Are Being Pushed Out Of The Workforce By A ‘Termination Gap’
- TribLIVE, October 28, 2020: Carnegie Mellon study finds severe polarization in political language
- WITF, October 27, 2020: Smart Talk Wednesday; COVID survey collects extensive data; Swing state Wisconsin look-in; Trusting News
- Vox, October 26, 2020: How racism amplifies Covid-19 risk for everyone
- Carnegie Mellon University, October 14, 2020: Experts Discuss Combating Disinformation One Month from the Election
- Axios, October 8, 2020: Medical ethics in pandemic times
- Carnegie Mellon University, October 1, 2020: Keep the Polls Open: CMU Data Scientists Join National Effort to Protect Voting Access During the Pandemic
- WIRED, September 18, 2020: This CIA spy game reveals the secrets of successful teams
- Science Magazine, September 17, 2020: Pandemic inspires new push to shrink jails and prisons
- The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2020: U.S. Unemployment Claims Held Steady Last Week
- InformationWeek, August 24, 2020: Unmasking the Black Box Problem of Machine Learning
- TechCrunch, August 18, 2020: How to diagnose and treat machine learning models afflicted by COVID-19
- The Verge, August 8, 2020: An important part of science is admitting when we’re wrong
- The Verge, August 4, 2020: We can’t skip steps on the road to a COVID-19 vaccine
- TribLIVE, July 25, 2020: More people willing to share location data for contact tracing, new study shows
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 6, 2020: Some Pittsburgh jobs were resilient during shutdowns; others were 'just devastated'
- Carnegie Mellon University, July 1, 2020: CMU Celebrates Picturephone's 50th Anniversary by Recreating Historic First Call
- Tech Xplore, June 29, 2020: The electric future of autonomous vehicles
- The Moonshot Catalog, June 8, 2020: Better Faster Learning
- The Washington Post, June 7, 2020: Left out: More workers now losing hope of getting back jobs
- Fast Company, May 30, 2020: Quarantine fatigue is real
- Forbes, May 26, 2020: 6 Ways You Can Stand Out In A Virtual Work Environment
- CNBC, May 14, 2020: The jobs recovery could be choppy, with some coming back quickly and others lost forever
- BBC, May 13, 2020: How AI can help us harness our 'collective intelligence'
- Carnegie Mellon University, May 12, 2020: Movie Studios Adjust to Changing COVID Dynamics
- Vox, May 6, 2020: Yoga alone, together
- WSB-TV, May 6, 2020: New tutoring program using AI to help kids learn
- WPXI, May 6, 2020: New tutoring program using AI to help kids learn
- MarketWatch, May 2, 2020: Why Americans are willing to share their personal information in drug trials but not for coronavirus contact tracing efforts
- PublicSource, May 2, 2020: Is staying home during the pandemic a luxury? Here’s what Pittsburgh-area data shows.
- Science Magazine, May 2, 2020: Against pandemic research exceptionalism
- Fast Company, April 28, 2020: This DoorDash for surplus food aims to cut waste and help solve hunger
- TechRepublic, April 27, 2020: Video meetings are awful. Try these five tips to make them better for everyone
- Science Daily, April 23, 2020: Crises are no excuse for lowering scientific standards, say ethicists
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 22, 2020: CMU Dashboard Will Help Inform State Decision-Makers During Pandemic
- Marketplace, April 22, 2020: Netflix raises more debt. Is it sustainable?
- PublicSource, April 20, 2020: Coronavirus will change Pittsburgh, but how? Here are 26 local leaders' predictions for what's to come.
- Forbes, April 14, 2020: How College Campus Closings Are Affecting Graduating Seniors
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 14, 2020: The Future of AI is Female
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 10, 2020: Best Practices For Working Remotely
- EdScoop, April 9, 2020: After the pandemic, AI tutoring tool could put students back on track
- Vital Voices, April 8, 2020: Voices of Resilience: Leah Lizarondo is Tackling Hunger During the Pandemic
- Carnegie Mellon University, April 7, 2020: The Ethics of Developing COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccination
- Fortune, April 2, 2020: Economics of a pandemic: In times of distress, girls and women are the biggest losers
- MarketWatch, March 26, 2020: Coronavirus cases in the U.S. now exceed China. How can you choose between saving the U.S. economy and saving lives?
- KDKA, March 25, 2020: Who Gets A Ventilator?
- The Washington Post, March 21, 2020: The new coronavirus economy: A gigantic experiment reshaping how we work and live
- Forbes, March 20, 2020: Unemployment Headed For 40-Year High—And Trump Reportedly Tells States Not To Release Data
- Quartz, March 19, 2020: Ethicists agree on who gets treated first when hospitals are overwhelmed by coronavirus
- NPR, March 19, 2020: Stuck Inside? Here's Your TV Streaming Strategy
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 17, 2020: In response to COVID-19 — and shift to remote work, school — tech services firms change policies
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15, 2020: Stuck in quarantine? Stats show surge in time spent on video games, movies and grammar lessons
- Forbes, March 12, 2020: Spotify Patents A Voice Assistant That Can Read Your Emotions
- IEEE Spectrum, February 26, 2020: How Adversarial Attacks Could Destabilize Military AI Systems
- MIT Technology Review, February 24, 2020: We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
- CBC, February 21, 2020: Is AI overhyped? Researchers weigh in on technology's promise and problems
- The Hill, February 19, 2020: Public trust in data could have helped China contain the coronavirus
- Pittsburgh Action News, February 11, 2020: Pittsburgh FBI warns of 2020 disinformation on social media
- Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2020: House Lawmakers Discuss How to Curb Bias in AI
- World Economic Forum, January 21, 2020: How higher education can adapt to the future of work
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 2020: How blueberries helped inform ethical considerations in an age of driverless cars, robotic workers of big data
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 5, 2020: Automation will change the workforce — in some cases, it already has — but not as quickly as you might expect
- New York Times, December 19, 2019: Many Facial-Recognition Systems Are Biased, Says U.S. Study
- TIME, December 6, 2019: AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions From Raw Data. But Can Deep Learning Be Trusted?
- WESA, November 25, 2019: Siri, Tell Fido To Stop Barking: What's Machine Learning, And What's The Future Of It?
- Fast Company, November 19, 2019: Better-educated, higher-paid workers will be ‘most affected’ by AI, per new study
- CMU Piper, October 30, 2019: Anita Williams Woolley's research team receives a $2.8 million grant to explore how AI can help humans work together better
- Carnegie Mellon University, October 30, 2019: Carnegie Mellon University Announces Landmark $2 Billion Campaign
- Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2019: Afraid You’re ‘Too’ Qualified for a Job? Here’s What You Can Do
- Forbes, October 27, 2019: What You Need To Know About Dark Data
- Nature, October 24, 2019: Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms
- The New York Times, October 15, 2019: If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something?
- Bloomberg, October 9, 2019: Tesla’s Autopilot Could Save the Lives of Millions, But It Will Kill Some People First
- AFL-CIO, September 13, 2019: AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions Report to the AFL-CIO General Board
- Vox, September 13, 2019: The case for a 4-day workweek
- TechNode, August 29, 2019: National AI plans should encourage international collaboration
- Carnegie Mellon University, August 28, 2019: Rayid Ghani, Pioneer in Applying AI to Social Issues, Joins Carnegie Mellon
- The Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2019: The ‘Overqualified’ Trap Can Hit You at Any Time
- Philadelphia Inquirer, August 15, 2019: Got a smartphone, a car, a big heart and one hour to spare? You can be a hunger hero
- Quartz, July 30, 2019: Mega hacks like the Capital One data breach are inevitable—here’s how to deal with them
- Pittsburgh Business Times, July 12, 2019: Here's why overly capable candidates may not get the job, according to CMU study
- Carnegie Mellon University, July 11, 2019: Study Shows Hiring Managers View Overqualified Job Seekers as Lacking Commitment
- Carnegie Mellon University, June 30, 2019: Smart People Don't Make a Smart Team
- Forbes, June 28, 2019: Trust In The Financial Sector: What Drives It And How To Earn It
- Forbes, June 18, 2019: Three Keys To Help You Rise To The Top
- Forbes, June 6, 2019: Managing Remote Employees? Spot This Problem And Improve Productivity
- TechNewsWorld, May 17, 2019: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping the Workforce
- GeekWire, May 15, 2019: AI researchers say San Francisco’s facial recognition ban just scratches the surface
- Verizon News, May 15, 2019: Learning about machine learning
- PCMag, May 4, 2019: What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- Aspen Institute, April 2, 2019: Automation and a Changing Economy: Policies for Shared Prosperity
- Carnegie Mellon University, March 14, 2019: The Balance of AI, Ethics and the Military
- The Verge, March 11, 2019: Why hospitals shouldn’t use telepresence robots to deliver devastating news
- Popular Science, February 11, 2019: Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s ‘American AI Initiative’
- Pittsburgh Business Times, February 22, 2018: Pittsburgh university launches center to examine technologies' societal impacts
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 15, 2018: Parsing the patents: CMU seeking clear answers on AI in workforce