In a new article from the Wall Street Journal, Kartik Hosanagar, Faculty Co-Director of AI at Wharton, highlights how the rise of AI could ultimately reduce the cost college tuition. …Read More
How AI Could Help Bring Down the Cost of College
Wharton AI & Analytics News
The Future Promise and Risk of Generative AI in Clinical Settings
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare, enhancing diagnostics and enabling more personalized patient care. However, experts at the recent Penn LDI AI in Health Care Conference highlighted significant ethical and practical challenges, including the need for transparency, fairness, and regulation in clinical AI applications. Hamsa Bastani, Faculty Co-Lead of the Wharton Healthcare Analytics Lab, emphasized rigorous testing to reduce bias and ensure AI-driven tools truly improve patient outcomes.…Read More
Vice Dean of AI & Analytics Eric Bradlow Featured in Poets & Quants Roundtable Discussion
On Wednesday, September 25th, Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton, joined Sharon Chen, Chair and Professor, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, and Balaji Padmanabhan, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Business at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, in a roundtable conversation on AI and business education.…Read More
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
AI Chatbots Seem as Ethical as a New York Times Advice Columnist
(Outlet: Scientific American) Large language models lack emotion and self-consciousness, but they appear to generate reasonable answers to moral quandaries. Professor Christian Terwiesch, Co-Director of the Mack Institute of Innovation Management, spoke with Scientific American about his research on AI and its ability to provide input on ethical decision-making.…Read More
Announcing the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Advisory Board
We are thrilled to announce the formation of the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) advisory board, comprised of esteemed business leaders from diverse industries. This board brings significant industry expertise, real-world business insights, and invaluable thought leadership to our mission of integrating AI and analytics into business education and practice.…Read More
AI takes center stage in Penn’s plan for overhauling its business education programs
(Outlet: Technical.ly) Technical.ly spoke with Eric Bradlow, Vice Dean of AI & Analytics at Wharton, to learn how the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative is taking the plunge and navigating the exciting new waters of AI in education. …Read More
The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Forms Research Partnership with Google
The Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative has formed a research partnership with Google, which aims to encourage research and new thinking on how Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) and Multi-Touch Attributions (MTA) tools are used to understand how marketing impacts sales/conversions, despite privacy-related restrictions.…Read More