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Funded by a NSF Career Award, Umar Iqbal plans to redesign the web with infrastructures catered to AI agents and to meet higher, safer and stricter standards.

WashU researchers have developed a method called that ranks AI-based imaging tools for accuracy, even when there’s no known “ground truth” to compare against. In tests, it correctly identified the most precise imaging method 95% of the time.

WashU researchers are training AI agents to screen thousands of chemical possibilities and flag the most promising candidates. One project already found 10 new materials that outperform current water-harvesting tech.

WashU’s Research Development Office is opening a new round of Research Seed Grants this fiscal year that will fund projects that meaningfully integrate artificial intelligence into research.

As the fall semester approaches, WashU’s AI initiative is driving academic innovation across schools and disciplines.

The research finds that LLM-generated pre-bunking significantly reduced belief in election rumors and modestly offset declines in confidence in national election administration.

The module creates space for open conversation about the relationship between AI and the learning objectives of a course.

This summer, WashU’s Digital Transformation Research Corps paired faculty researchers with student developers and designers to turn ambitious research questions into working prototypes.

The program will prepare graduates for careers that require proficiency in engineering AI systems.

A global consortium co-founded by WashU Medicine and directed by neurologist Randall J. Bateman, MD, brings together members from academia, major pharmaceutical companies and philanthropic organizations.