Artificial intelligence
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Kip the coyote became a beloved figure at UBC before his tragic death in 2024. His story now helps researchers understand urban wildlife and promote safe coexistence between coyotes, people and pets.
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Can AI persuade you to go vegan—or harm yourself?
UBC research shows AI chatbots can be more persuasive than humans—raising concerns about manipulation, mental health risks and the need for safeguards.
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AI salespeople aren’t better than humans… yet
A UBC Sauder study finds humans still outperform AI in online sales—at least for now.
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Delivering AI’s promise of better health care
Jump-started by a $22.5 million gift, UBC’s new AI and Health Network is deploying powerful artificial intelligence tools to drive health system innovation and improve patient care.
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Should we recognize robot rights?
In this Q&A, professor Benjamin Perrin and student Nathan Cheung discuss a new upper-level course studying whether robots need rights.
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Protecting elections in the age of generative AI
Dr. Chris Tenove, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions’s assistant director, discuss the risks and potential positive uses of generative AI in elections.
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TikTok users are more productive — and negative — when they use AI voice
Although AI voice enabled TikTok creators to produce longer videos and more videos per week, the sentiment of those videos were more negative.
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AI can tell if a patient battling cancer needs mental health support
Researchers at UBC and BC Cancer have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can accurately predict if a person receiving cancer care will require mental health services during their treatment journey.
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ChatGPT has read almost the whole internet. That hasn’t solved its diversity issues
In this Q&A, Dr. Vered Shwartz, assistant professor in the UBC department of computer science, and masters student Mehar Bhatia explain why reasoning could be the next step in AI—and why it’s important to train these models using diverse datasets from different cultures.
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UBC team deploys AI-powered robots for faster, safer construction
Learn how it works and what this means for the future of construction.
