Grace Stanley

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Gender, nationality can influence suspicion of using AI in freelance writing

6 days ago | techxplore.com | Grace Stanley

With the development of AI writing assistants like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, large language models (LLMs) are now used in various writing professions to generate ideas and work more efficiently. But are there negative associations or potential professional backlash for writers wrongfully (or rightfully) suspected of using AI? Does this suspicion vary based on the writer's race, gender or nationality?
AI tools help people with speech disabilities make timely jokes

1 week ago | techxplore.com | Grace Stanley

A team of researchers from Cornell Tech is reimagining how technology can support users with speech disabilities—not just in functional speech, but also in making real-time jokes during conversations. The research explores how artificial intelligence interfaces can help users of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology deliver witty remarks while talking with others—a way of communicating that's often made impossible by the slow pace of traditional AAC systems.
Cornell Tech Celebrates with May Events, Startup Awards

1 week ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

To mark the end of this academic year, Cornell Tech will host a series of events in May to celebrate its campus culture. The campus, based in New York City, inspires successful startups and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration by bringing together scholars and experts in engineering, law, business, design, health, urban tech, media, and art.
Personalized AI tools can combat ableism online

2 weeks ago | phys.org | Grace Stanley

People with disabilities experience high levels of harassment online, including microaggressions and slurs. However, social media platforms frequently fail to address reports of disability-based harassment and offer only limited tools that simply hide hateful content.
Home care workers unaware of AI's role and potential benefits

2 weeks ago | medicalxpress.com | Grace Stanley

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in home health care—but home health care workers are generally unaware of that. Nor do they understand how AI works, why it may retain their information and that it could replicate bias and discrimination in their workplace.
Home Care Workers Unaware of AI Risks and Potential Benefits

3 weeks ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Grace StanleyArtificial intelligence is increasingly being used in home health care – but home health care workers are generally unaware of that. Nor do they understand how AI works, why it may retain their information and that it could replicate bias and discrimination in their workplace.
Cornell Tech alumni create New York City law firm to transform law with tech

3 weeks ago | news.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Three alumni from Cornell Tech’s Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship program have joined forces at ALVK Law, a law firm that provides on-demand legal services for tech entrepreneurs and enterprises without U.S.-based in-house counsel. Victoria Kammerath, LL.M. ‘21, founded ALVK Law in March 2023, and was shortly thereafter joined by more recent graduates Agustín Iraola, LL.M. ‘23, and Valeria Monturiol, LL.M. ‘23, who Kammerath met during their studies at Cornell Tech.
Dataset reveals how Reddit communities are adapting to AI

1 month ago | techxplore.com | Grace Stanley

Researchers at Cornell Tech have released a dataset extracted from more than 300,000 public Reddit communities, and a report detailing how Reddit communities are changing their policies to address a surge in AI-generated content. The team collected metadata and community rules from the online communities, known as subreddits, during two periods in July 2023 and November 2024.
Cornell Tech Professor Daniel D. Lee wins competition matching fruit fly brain maps

1 month ago | news.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

Daniel D. Lee, Tisch University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell Tech, has won the FlyWire Ventral Nerve Cord (VNC) Matching Challenge award for a competition that tasked researchers with creating a method to align the connectomes — aka neural connection maps — of male and female fruit flies, represented as large graphs. To find the best way to match the “nodes” (neurons) of the graphs, Lee’s team, named “Old School,” utilized matrix representations.
Record Matches and Challenges Mark 11th Cornell Giving Day

1 month ago | tech.cornell.edu | Grace Stanley

By Jennifer WholeyFor 24 hours, donors rallied together to help Cornell “reach for the stars” on the 11th Giving Day, held March 13. This year’s space-themed event raised $11,206,717 from 17,591 donors, for a total of 25,929 gifts making a tangible show of support for causes across the university.