WATCH: Mining the Need for Human Connection in an Age of Unreality

Mining the Need for Human Connection in an Age of Unreality AI companions aren’t solving problems—they’re creating them. Casey Mock reveals the venture-backed machinery designed to profit from the need for human connection and extract value from our increasingly fragmented reality.

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New CRISPRs Expand Upon the Original’s Abilities

By scouring thousands of bacterial genomes for new CRISPR-Cas systems, researchers have discovered some that could expand the technology’s impact in research, biotechnology and medicine

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion

Provost Launches AI Initiative and Steering Committee

Duke faculty, students, trainees and staff are engaging with artificial intelligence in a multitude of ways. A new initiative led by Provost Alec D. Gallimore seeks to reflect this diversity of approach, encourage engagement with tools and services, and contribute to a global conversation about the new horizons that AI can open up for us, and how to keep it from exacerbating some of our greatest challenges.

Early last year, Gallimore first envisioned bringing together Duke faculty and academic leadership who are leading work that develops, uses, studies, or otherwise engages with AI. To lead this new initiative, he tapped Yakut Gazi, vice provost for learning innovation and digital education; Michael Pencina, vice dean for data science and chief data scientist at the School of Medicine; and Joseph Salem, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs.