Artificial Intelligence News Feed

“AI is making outputs more accessible, forgetting the value of the process”
EP. 13 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Maxyn Leitner

Bridging Disciplines: The Power of Collaboration at ISI
ISI connects researchers across USC to ask better questions and build smarter solutions.

“You can only design a system to the limit of what you can plan for”
EP. 12 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Joe Barnes

ISI at the NAACL ‘25 Conference
From planning creatively to aligning AI with human values, USC ISI researchers push the boundaries of natural language processing.

ISI @ the 2025 ACM Web Conference
USC ISI showcases new research to safeguard online discourse, mitigate polarization, evaluate LLMs, and more

ISI researcher collaborates with Financial Times to uncover coordinated online effort to sway Canadian election
Source: Financial TimesLuca Luceri uncovers a coordinated online effort to sway Canadian election.

USC at ICLR 2025
USC researchers present cutting-edge advances in AI and machine learning at ICLR 2025, highlighting breakthroughs in 3D vision, decision-making, and deep learning

Mapping Our Emotionally-Divided Society
USC ISI researchers develop a novel mathematical model that helps explain why we’re polarized

Investigating State-Backed Information Operations
USC ISI researchers assess a previous claim that countries collaborate on efforts to manipulate public opinion across social media

AI for Support
Source: Inc.Jonathan May was interviewed in a story about the new AI app Nomi, and one young woman who developed a relationship with a chatbot