University of Florida philosophy Associate Professor Duncan Purves talks about the importance of building ethics into artificial intelligence systems. Algorithms determine the actions of machines, so it’s important to ensure that people know how their data that feeds those algorithms is being used and that the actions the algorithms drive are fair. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/all-seeing-algorithms.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida microbiologist Brent Christner leads a team drilling down to a lake under a thousand meters of ice near the South Pole to see what kinds of life exist there and what that tells us about the Antarctic environment in a warming world. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/drilling-down-scientists-searching-for-signs-of-life-in-antarctic-ice.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida researchers discuss how the university’s artificial intelligence initiative and one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers is changing the way they conduct collaborative science and prepare students for an AI-enabled world. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/data-prospecting.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida entomologist Jamie Ellis leads efforts to understand and protect the honeybees that pollinate 20 percent of the food we eat. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/hive-help-honey-bee.html  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield helps search for the missing dead from the Tulsa Massacre that wiped out a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/digging-for-the-truth.html  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.