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Requesting a birth certificate should be simple. But for many Missouri residents navigating complex government paperwork, the process can be confusing, time-consuming, and even discouraging. For people with limited digital literacy, outdated PDF forms can be especially difficult to understand and complete.

According to the latest iHeard poll in St. Louis, 42% of local adults say they or a loved one has had a health insurance claim denied, and most of them (69%) appealed the claim. AI is aiming to help fight health insurance claim denials, but only 6% of St. Louisans have heard about it.

Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because ‘synthetic’ data do not contain real or traceable patient information.

Using statistical learning to analyze a decade of data from 31 sub-Saharan African countries, the team identified key socioeconomic factors that are strongly associated with whether mothers use available health services to avoid under-5 mortality.

Digital Transformation Summer Corps equips students with new AI skills, offers opportunities to work with researchers across disciplines.

Umar Iqbal, Ning Zhang and doctoral student Yuhao Wu and their collaborators have developed IsolateGPT, a method that keeps external tools isolated from each other while still running in a large language model system — mitigating security risks. 

Covering everything from social media to bitcoin to AI, a timely and all-too-topical political science graduate course challenges students to think differently. Social media’s rise has dramatically transformed recent elections, reshaping how citizens engage with politics, how politicians connect with constituents and how information flows through society.

The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to computer engineering scholars from UC Riverside and Washington University in St. Louis to advance artificial intelligence, or AI, methods for image generation systems used in science, medicine, and engineering.

A new artificial intelligence simulation platform aims to transform how social workers are trained, offering students realistic, hands-on experience with lifelike virtual clients before they ever enter the field. The platform, called Empathy Helper, was developed by a multidisciplinary team of social work educators, mental health professionals, and AI experts.

Can a chatbot for eating disorders improve access to care? This is what Dr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft is trying to achieve through a new study. She’s an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and an associate professor of psychiatry at WashU School of Medicine.