Press Coverage

I School faculty, students, and scholars in the news.

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Joshua Blumenstock on Using AI To End Extreme Poverty

Dec 17, 2025

According to a new report by a group of anti-poverty researchers that uses AI tools to achieve unusually granular data of the picture on the ground,…

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Governor Newsom Launches New Initiatives To Partner With Tech Policy Experts, Including Deirdre Mulligan

Dec 16, 2025

Professor Deirdre Mulligan, former Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, will…

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POLITICO: Governor Newsom Convening “California Innovation Council” Including Prof. Deirdre Mulligan

Dec 16, 2025

Professor Deirdre Mulligan, former Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, will…

Why Should Students Still Learn to Code in the Age of AI? Prof. Hany Farid Farid Has an Answer

Dec 7, 2025

Hany Farid Sounds Alarm on the ‘Disaster’ Inside AI Publishing

Dec 6, 2025

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I School-Developed AI Model Helps CDC Slash Outbreak Detection Time

Dec 1, 2025

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Deepfake of North Carolina Lawmaker Used in Award-winning Whirlpool Video

Nov 30, 2025

How To Spot AI Video Slop? Even Experts Get Duped, Hany Farid Tells NPR

Nov 30, 2025

I School Ph.D. Candidate Advocates For New Generation of ‘Advocacy Technologists’

Nov 30, 2025

NBC Interviews Hany Farid on Proposed AI Bill Seeking to Criminalize Deepfakes of Federal Officials

Nov 25, 2025