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Smart Enough to Know Better? How AI Handles Legal Questions
ISI researchers tested large language models on sensitive legal scenarios and found surprising vulnerabilities.

“You Are Agents of Change”: The USC Viterbi Master’s Class of 2025
At the USC Viterbi master’s commencement ceremonies, Dean Yannis C. Yortsos praised graduates on the “singular achievement” of earning their master’s degree.

Celebrating the ISI Class of 2025
From first projects to final defenses, ISI grads look back on a transformative journey.

“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.

CA DREAMS welcomes AIT Taiwan Delegation
The visit represents a step toward strengthening U.S.-Taiwan ties in microelectronics innovation

Cloudwalkers cast highlight: Robert Kahn
In 1972, following the release of the Pentagon Papers, a small institute in Los Angeles was given the power to design, develop and run the Internet. What followed was one of the greatest explosions of information in human history.

“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