The Deep View: Penn reimagines research with AI at its core. Comment: Trust Ethics Guardrails

Posted on May 19, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
Penn reimagines research with AI at its core
Source: UPenn
The University of Pennsylvania has quietly built a human collider for AI.
Launched this spring by cosmologist Bhuvnesh Jain and computer scientist René Vidal, the AI x Science Fellowship unites more than 20 postdoctoral researchers from physics, linguistics, chemistry, engineering and medicine. Each fellow receives two faculty mentors, a modest research budget and campus-wide access to labs and high-performance computing. Weekly Tuesday lunches double as idea exchanges, while open seminars pull in curious researchers from every school.
The fellowship grew out of a 2021 data-science pilot in Arts & Sciences and now spans Engineering and Penn Medicine, with Wharton fellows due in the fall. Jain and Vidal—co-chairs of Penn’s AI Council—plan to scale it into a university-wide Penn AI Fellowship and create a “data-science hub” where roaming AI specialists spend a fifth of their time parachuting into other labs.
Why it matters: As AI research moves rapidly into the private sector, this initiative encourages collaboration on AI research questions that don’t yet have commercial applications. Industry labs chase near-term products. Penn is betting that open-ended, ethically grounded questions—trustworthy AI, machine learning for dark-matter hunts—still belong in academia. The fellowship gives young scientists a network, résumé-ready collaborations and a sandbox for ideas too early or risky for corporate funding.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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