Reich explains his new role serving as senior advisor to the U.S. AI Safety Institute and how he’ll use his background as a philosopher to approach his work.
As trade fractures into geopolitically aligned blocs, future economic growth is in danger, the International Monetary Fund’s Gita Gopinath told a Stanford audience.
Stanford Medicine researchers are working to get the latest diabetes management technology into the hands of every patient, and make it easier for providers to flag those who need help.
Combining advances in display technologies, holographic imaging, and artificial intelligence, engineers at Stanford say they have produced a leap forward for augmented reality.
Stanford Medicine researchers are developing artificial intelligence tools that provide a more accurate picture of a person’s mental health and flag those who need help.
A new report finds racial and economic segregation among schools has grown steadily in large school districts over the past 30 years – an increase that appears to be driven by policy decisions, not demographic changes.
Big investors believe climate change will impact their portfolios in the coming years, a new report finds, but climate considerations aren’t driving their investment decisions.
A new book by Angela Garcia describes a troubling type of underground residential treatment program that has emerged to help Mexico City’s poor survive drug violence.
A new study of air pollution in U.S. homes reveals how much gas and propane stoves increase people’s exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant linked to childhood asthma. Even in bedrooms far from kitchens, concentrations frequently exceed health limits while stoves are on and for hours after burners and ovens are turned off.
How Karl Deisseroth’s lunches for a group of scientists, physicians, engineers, and students produced a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease.
Prioritizing future risk is difficult, says neuroeconomist Nik Sawe, because the brain’s reward pathway is “pushing you to act now and be a short-term impulsive thinker.”
Conventional sunscreen ingredients can damage coral reefs and human health. An immunologist and a marine ecologist teamed up to develop a better approach.
Virtually all countries are exploring the use of a central bank digital currency, Darrell Duffie says. “It’s hard to imagine that 100 years from now, people will be reaching into their pockets and pulling out grubby bits of paper.”
Sophomore Vihaan Agarwal was 14 when air pollution in New Delhi caused by burning trash inspired him to start a waste recycling program that now serves 25,000 households.
To understand trade-offs for coastal communities along the Mesoamerican Reef, new research looks at watershed interventions regionally versus nationally.
Here’s how Stanford scholars are exploring the connection between plastic and disease, rethinking plastic reuse, and uncovering new ways to break down plastic waste.
People think being indirect is kinder, but it just creates confusion, Graham Weaver says. “The more clear you can be, the more compassionate that is for the other person.”
Jerome Powell, Sundar Pichai, and Patti Poppe discuss technology, sustainability, and more at the first Business, Government, and Society Forum. Watch the highlights.
