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How Low-income Households Can Secure Their Retirement Finances
(Outlet: Knowledge at Wharton) A new plan from the Penn Wharton Budget Model projects account balances as high as $200,000 for more than 56 million low-income Americans. Read More
Miikka Rokkanen Joins the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative as a Senior Fellow
The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) is thrilled to welcome Miikka Rokkanen, a Principal Economist in the Customer Behavior Analytics organization at Amazon, to the team as a Senior Fellow. Read More
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
(Outlet: Harvard Business School) Research from a team of academics that includes Stefano Puntoni, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton, demonstrates how AI companions can help alleviate feelings of loneliness and help individuals feel heard and better understood. Read More
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How AI Can Harm Financial Well-being
Wharton professor discusses how AI reduces the “pain of payment,” making it easier to spend.Read More
Consumers Are Concerned about Misinformation. How Can They Navigate It Leading Up to the U.S. Election?
Adobe senior director discusses new report on content misinformation concerns during the U.S. presidential election.Read More
Is AI Making You Spend More Money?
Wharton’s Wendy De La Rosa sounds the alarm about firms using AI to encourage consumer spending, which will harm financial well-being.Read More
How Large Language Models Could Impact Jobs
A new study weighs the positive and negative impacts of LLMs based on the exposure of tasks to the technology and their potential to be transformed by AI.Read More
