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Stanford AI summit weighs promise and risk
At the third annual AI Summit @ Stanford, researchers, industry leaders, and entrepreneurs explored how to advance AI while reducing its potential harms.
San Jose Mercury News
Stanford team partners with youth on school air quality
A Stanford research team is helping youth-led nonprofit ConServe expand low-cost air-pollution monitoring at schools and in underserved communities.
TIME
The morning light habit sleep experts swear by
Jamie Zeitzer, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, on how the body’s circadian clock helps it anticipate daily needs.
KQED
When Chinese flower growers helped the Bay Area bloom
Laura Jones, Stanford University archaeologist, on how flower farming’s small acreage requirements made it an accessible path to economic opportunity for immigrant families, many of whom got their start on land leased from Stanford.
The 74
Giving kids access to AI tutors doesn’t mean they’ll use them
New Stanford research finds that students left alone with an AI tutoring platform spent just two to five minutes interacting with it each week, raising questions about access versus meaningful use.
San Jose Mercury News
Millions of hours of Bay Area police body-camera footage go unwatched. Stanford says AI could change that
Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford psychology professor and faculty co-director of the SPARQ team, on new research using AI to audit body camera footage across Bay Area police departments.
USA Today
California researchers say controlled burns reduce long-term pollution
A Stanford study finds that prescribed burns in California’s conifer forests immediately reduced severe wildfire risk by 92% and cut cumulative smoke pollution by 10% over a decade.
NBC Bay Area
New research explores collecting water in Earth’s driest places
Stanford researchers are working on technology that draws out water from some of the driest places in the world.
The Guardian
Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests
Ekaterina (Kath) Landgren, Stanford postdoctoral fellow, on new research revealing that aiming just above average in ambition leads to better outcomes.
Forbes
Stanford to consolidate two big AI programs
The Stanford Data Science initiative and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI will now be run under one roof.