Chatbots for change: How AI is making government services more accessible
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 For people with limited digital literacy, outdated PDF forms can be especially difficult to understand and complete.
Can artificial intelligence help fight health insurance denials?
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.
WashU Law’s bold bid to become the global leader in legal AI
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.
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
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.
Data science uncovers patterns in health service use linked to child mortality
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.
Students in summer program develop AI tools, advance faculty research
Digital Transformation Summer Corps equips students with new AI skills, offers opportunities to work with researchers across disciplines.
‘IsolateGPT’ to make LLM-based agents more secure
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.
AI firm to represent St. Louis region at $1M startup competition
A company that specializes in delivering quick artificial models to businesses that was co-founded by a Washington University graduate will represent the St. Louis region’s entrepreneurship scene at the Grand Finale of the Startup World Cup this fall.
The intersection of technology and politics
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.
UC Riverside and WashU researchers receive NSF awards to improve AI-powered imaging systems
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.