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Researchers in the lab of WashU’s Nathan Jacobs have released a round of “computer vision” tools that can help with species classification and autonomous driving technologies.

Spot Eunhye Ahn on campus in deep thought, and you might catch her wrestling with a question she considers both urgent and underexplored: What does “human-centered” really mean from a social work perspective when it comes to artificial intelligence? 

Over the last few years, the legal profession has shifted from skepticism about artificial intelligence to large-scale adoption. Yet the single most influential legal technology of our lifetime remains absent from many law school curricula. This isn’t just a missed opportunity. It’s a failure to educate.

Artist Tiffany Calvert is busy wrapping up a day in her studio, putting the finishing touches on a largescale still life oil painting. In 2025, it might seem like an anachronism, something from another century. The catch: the image was created in part by a custom AI diffusion model.

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 For people with limited digital literacy, outdated PDF forms can be especially difficult to understand and complete.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.

As AI becomes an integral part of legal practice, law schools nationwide are updating their curricula to prepare students for an AI-driven profession. Washington University in St. Louis School of Law is among the institutions investing heavily in this area, with a stated goal of becoming the global leader in AI education and training.

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.

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