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How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery

New AI tools generate hypotheses, design experiments, and find patterns in data—transforming how scientists make discoveries across every field.

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How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery

Nikki Goth Itoi
Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)Jul 08

New AI tools generate hypotheses, design experiments, and find patterns in data—transforming how scientists make discoveries across every field.

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Stanford Scientists Build an AI Lab Partner
Nikki Goth Itoi
Jul 09
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Biomni can analyze mountains of medical data, spot patterns humans might miss, and even design experiments—helping researchers make discoveries faster in the race to cure disease.

HAI Student Affinity Groups Take On Society’s Emerging Questions
Madeleine Wright
Jun 26
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Stanford students across disciplines are teaming up to tackle society’s pressing questions in the age of AI.

Today's AI Talks Like “Nobody.” New Research Gives It Real Personality.
Jun 08
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PsychAdapter lets researchers dial in on personality traits, age, and mental health characteristics to generate text that sounds like real individuals, opening the door to training simulations and personalized content.

Reading Today’s Headlines Through AI: A Real-Time Audit of Six Commercial Chatbots
Mirac Suzgun and James Zou
Jun 03
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In a new study, scholars measured how accurately popular AI chatbots answered questions about the emerging news and found substantial regional disparity, dependence on distinct information ecosystems, and acute fragility under imperfect prompts.

AI Coding Agents Fail at Teamwork
Andrew Myers
Jun 01
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Two models working together perform worse than one alone, exposing a critical gap in artificial intelligence capabilities.

How AI is Transforming Scientific Discovery While Keeping Humans at the Center
Shana Lynch
May 27
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From designing new antibodies to simulating 1,000 years of climate in a day, AI is transforming what's possible—but humans remain the ones deciding what matters.

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State Policymakers Divided Over How To Address AI Job-Loss Fears
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How AI Is Helping States Cut Through Decades of Red Tape

RegLab staff
Government, Public AdministrationRegulation, Policy, GovernanceJul 23

Stanford researchers scanned 500 million words of state law to reveal the stunning growth of reporting requirements, and are now giving governments a tool to clean them up.

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Legal AI’s Legibility Problem

Andrew Myers
Law Enforcement and JusticeJul 20

Increasing reliance on language models for legal tasks have led to calls for more information about the likelihood and severity of potential errors. Realizing useful and robust transparency requires an institutional perspective, say the editors of a new special section in PNAS.

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The AI Sovereignty Paradox: Should Countries Buy, Build, or Lease to Maintain Strategic Control of Their AI?

Shana Lynch
Government, Public AdministrationInternational Affairs, International Security, International DevelopmentRegulation, Policy, GovernanceJul 14

As nations invest billions to reduce reliance on foreign AI providers, a new Stanford HAI report surveys commercial sovereignty solutions and assesses the extent to which they meaningfully reduce dependencies on U.S. tech giants.

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Stanford Study Exposes Major Flaw in AI Mental Health Safety Testing

Andrew Myers
HealthcareGenerative AIPrivacy, Safety, SecurityJul 13

With increased use of chatbots in mental health contexts, AI developers now rely on human experts to evaluate AI’s responses for “safety” – but experts rarely agree on what’s safe.