The AI Arts & Sciences Showcase!

To celebrate AI Month at Penn, the Data Driven Discovery Initiative is co-organizing an AI Arts & Sciences Showcase to highlight how artificial intelligence is shaping research across the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS). Fast-paced lightning talks from SAS postdoctoral fellows and graduate students will show how the next generation of researchers is leveraging AI to do science, and studying the impacts of AI on society.

No SAS affiliation or technical knowledge of AI is required to attend—all are welcome!

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Time: 3:30 - 5pm
Location: Tedori Auditorium, Behavioral and Neural Sciences Building
Live stream: Available via zoom.

Speakers:

Margaret Kandel, MindCORE
Can children learn language from AI chatbots?

Carolina Torreblanca, Political Science
The credibility revolution in political science: evidence from AI

Fabian Baumann, Biology
Generative artificial intelligence reduces social welfare through model collapse

Marvin Maechler, Psychology
A rational confirmation bias

Max M. Cohen, Physics & Astronomy
How to find new particles, really fast

Ben du Pont, Physics & Astronomy
Steering molecular samplers: out of distribution sampling for design

Elena (Yuxin) Liang, Data Driven Discovery
AI for Philadelphia: from citizen reports to illegal dumping hotspots

Shreya Arya, Mathematics
Evaluating mathematical reasoning in Large Language Models

The event is sponsored by the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI), MindCORE, the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, the Center for Soft & Living Matter, and PDRI/DevLab.

Starting at 3:30pm, a zoom live stream will be available here.