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AI engineers know the ethical risks presented by AI, but workplace culture prevents action, study finds

University of Manchester
Reports and Proceedings

AI engineers often recognize ethical risks associated with the systems they build, but many lack the authority, incentives and organizational support needed to act on them, according to new research from The University of Manchester.

Meeting: 10th Data for Policy Conference

Scientists create rare material that could pave the way for faster, greener computer memory

University of Warwick
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Warwick researchers have created a new material combining two properties, magnetism and electrical polarisation, that scientists have struggled to bring together for decades – and crucially, it works at close to room temperature.

Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
Funder: Royal Society

University of Tennessee researchers in electrical engineering and computer science receive NSF CAREER Awards

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Grant and Award Announcement

Two researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have received National Science Foundation CAREER awards for their work in superconducting logic systems and interactive human-centered computing. Their projects will address the challenge of scaling quantum computing and put artificial intelligence to work in Appalachian communities.

Wyss awarded ARPA-H contract to end the guesswork in fetal distress

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
Grant and Award Announcement

Clinicians ability to monitor oxygen support of fetuses during labor is extremely inadequate. This is critical because insufficient oxygen support of unborn babies significantly increases the risks for infant and maternal health. With support from a newly awarded contract from the ARPA-H MOCS program, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University across several of its Technology Platforms and faculty labs join forces to address this critical unmet need in maternal and women’s health.

AI tools can miss the mark on police bodycam footage

Princeton University, Engineering School
Peer-Reviewed Publication

AI is increasingly being used to help analyze police bodycam recordings, but new research from Princeton Engineering shows that in 1 out of 4 cases the models can’t identify basic details, like whether an officer handcuffed someone or drew a gun.

Study finds common vaping additives disrupt lung-surfactant film in lab model

University of Kansas
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Kansas shows that additives common to commercially available vaping devices, vitamin E and CBD, soften a vital lung surfactant at high enough concentrations, at least in a simplified lab model.

Theoretically Breaking the 1-nm limit: Layer-selective doping enables high-performance 2D transistors with enhanced gate control

Tsinghua University Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As transistor dimensions approach the 1-nm technology node, maintaining both high driving current and strong electrostatic gate control has become a major challenge for next-generation electronics. Researchers have now proposed a constituent-layer-selective doping strategy for ZnO/GaN van der Waals heterostructure transistors, enabling simultaneous enhancement of carrier transport and gate controllability through a current confinement mechanism. The study provides a new pathway for ultra-scaled two-dimensional electronics beyond the Moore era.

Journal: Nano Research

3D-printed rock avalanche

ETH Zurich
Business Announcement

What happens when water, ice and more thunder down into a valley? Researchers from ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF are investigating this using an accurate 3D model of the area around Blatten. The experiments aim to improve computer models and help to more reliably assess risks to settlements and infrastructure.

Augmentation not abdication, when using AI in research

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An editorial by Charles Branas and Bruce Levine proposes norms for the use of AI in science.

Journal: PNAS Nexus