By Danny Flannery Since 2022, Dr. Gloria Washington has been spearheading an approach to the artificial intelligence boom that places people at the center. As director of Howard’s Human Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HCAI), funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), she and her team of researchers are ensuring AI is useful for the actual people it serves.
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By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, escalating its confrontation with the group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy. The grants supported initiatives aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, improving teen and young adult health,
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By Sarah Dean, Garrett Haake, Alexandra Bacallao and Rebecca Shabad WASHINGTON — The White House has installed plaques on the exterior of the building bashing President Donald Trump’s predecessors, including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and promoting disinformation about their administrations. The plaques were hung up below presidential portraits that have been on display on Trump’s recently added “Presidential Walk of Fame”
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