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September 9, 2024
“We need some thoughtful regulation to promote efficient use of AI and effective use, and also to limit harmful uses, and certainly any kind of malevolent or malicious use of comment forums,” said Nigel Melville, associate professor of technology and operations, who believes AI will make it much more difficult over time to tell the difference between a machine-made comment and a comment from a real human.
Bloomberg Law -
September 9, 2024
“He’s a slippery debater. His whole strategy is just to be like a boxer, be all over the place and continue to change the subject and make it very tough to nail him down. It’ll be almost like whack-a-mole on the stage of her trying to kind of get him into a place where she wants him,” said Aaron Kall, director of U-M Debate, commenting on this week’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
The National Desk -
September 6, 2024
Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture, says U.S. citizens are less willing to work in service, construction and agriculture — industries that employ significant populations of immigrants. “We don’t seem to recognize that we have a real need, a real lack of people in these sorts of jobs that are essential to the economy. … (Media coverage of the border) is such a negative portrayal that doesn’t see the value of what immigrants bring to a country,” she said.
Michigan Advance -
September 6, 2024
“If, at the moment, there’s a large line of aircraft waiting to depart, it may be worth waiting a few more minutes at the gate with your engines off than waiting on the taxiway with your engines up and running,” said Max Li, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, on small ways airlines can improve their carbon footprint.
Detroit Free Press -
September 6, 2024
“Deepfake-enabled disinformation has and will continue to spread during the election in ways we could not have imagined even a few years ago,” wrote Hafiz Malik, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM-Dearborn. “Unfortunately, every entity in the U.S. with responsibility for combating deepfakes — from tech companies to regulators to policymakers — has been taking a band-aid approach to this significant and pernicious threat.”
The Hill -
September 5, 2024
Diverting certification authority to Georgia’s 159 counties, as the State Election Board is trying to do now, was a common tactic under Jim Crow laws, says Robert Mickey, professor of political science: “Decentralization — having to go one county at a time to desegregate schools, register voters — places a huge burden on pro-democratic forces.”
The New York Times -
September 5, 2024
Heightened prices are eroding consumers’ living standards, says Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers: “A lot of consumers, they’ll tell us that things are painful specifically because of continued high prices. I think that is understandable. There are a lot of things that remain quite expensive for consumers and are a higher proportion of their monthly budgets than they were before.”
USA Today -
September 5, 2024
“What I would hope is that it will go back to the good old days and have bipartisan technical corrections,” said Reuven Avi-Yonah, professor of law, about an oversight by Congress that left a hole in the 2017 tax law by writing mismatched effective dates for new tax rules — allowing big companies to save tens or hundreds of millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to the government.
The Wall Street Journal -
September 4, 2024
“If all the storms were smushed together, averaged together for one season, and we looked at each season as time went on, that’s where we saw our statistically significant increasing trends in temperature and moisture,” said Abby Hutson, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research, whose study shows that Great Lakes winters are trending warmer and the storm systems are wetter.
Michigan Public -
September 4, 2024
The value of the U.S. dollar has fallen about 5% over the last couple of months. “The main driver is the anticipation that the (Federal Reserve) is likely to cut interest rates in September. Labor markets in the United States seem to be cooling, and growth prospects are … ‘normalizing,'” said Kathryn Dominguez, professor of public policy and economics.
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