Media Coverage & Mentions

• Beauty, lies & ChatGPT: Welcome to the post-truth world. The Hill. Feb 2023 (Opinion Column).
  • Então tá, vamos falar sobre o ChatGPT (So, let's talk about ChatGPT). Communica.ufu.br (Brazilian News Portal). (Quotes The Hill piece). March 2023.

• The State of Artificial Creativity. ASU News. February 2023. (Interview)

• ChatGPT Worries Professors, Excites Them For Future of AI. State Press. Jan 2023. (Interviewed).

• IIT Jodhpur concludes NAiBS-2023 “Next-gen AI: Inspiration from Brain Science” international conference. NE India Broadcast. Jan 2023. (News Item)

• Subbarao Kambhampati: అవమానంతో... కళ్లలో నీళ్లు తిరిగాయి Eenadu (Telugu). 25th Dec 2022. (Profile in Sunday Magazine)

• How Is Everyone Making Those A.I. Selfies?. New York Times. December 2022. (Quoted and research linked)
  • Those amazing Lensa AI Avatars. Telegraph (India). Jan 2023.
  • Viral Lensa AI 'Melukis' bak van Gogh dan Anime, Potensial Bermasalah CNN Indonesia. December 2022.
  • Privacy, sessualizzazione e lesione degli artisti: le accuse a Lensa, l'app del momento. HuffPost Italia. December 2022.
  • Avatar - anime portreler sosyal medyanın her yerinde. Kibris Gazetesi. December 2022.
  • Lensa AI -sovelluksen tekoälytaide ihastuttaa Instagramissa - Taiteilijat syyttävät kopioinnista. Findance. December 2022.
  • ..and others.

• Diver Rahita Kaarlu Ippude Kaadu (Self-driving cars are not here yet). Eenadu (Telugu). December 2022.

• What is Augmented Intelligence?. BuiltIn (Explainer article). October 2022.

• Ready or not, mass video deepfakes are coming. Washington Post. August 2022. (Quoted)

• The ethical and privacy concerns over deep fakes and AI and our democracy. Cincinnati Edition (NPR/WVXU). August 2022 (Interview)

• Large language models can’t plan, even if they write fancy essays. The Next Web. July 2022. (Coverage of our research). (First appeared in Tech Talks)

• Meet the LA Startup That Lets People Talk to the Dead Dot.LA. August 2022. (Quoted)

• Amazon's Alexa could soon speak in a dead relative's voice, making some feel uneasy. NPR (National Public Radio). Quoted. June 2022.

• DALL-E Mini and AI Sentience Good Morning Arizona. Channel 3/Phoenix. (Interview Segment) June 2022.

• Amazon’s Alexa Can Mimic Any Voice. Morning Wave Busan. Special Interview. June 2022.

• Explainability, Human Aware AI & sentience in large language models. Podcast interview with Jay Shah. June 2022.

• AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?. Communications of the ACM (Blog). (Viewpoint) June 2022.

• Dall-e 2: What is the AI image generator creating strange artworks out of nothing – and how do you use it?. Independent (UK Newspaper). Quoted. June 2022.

• Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command. New York Times. April 2022. (Quoted)

• Distinguished career earns Kambhampati Alumnus Award. In the Loop (ASU Fulton). April 2022. (Profile)

• Deepfake, come funzionano e che ruolo hanno nella guerra in Ucraina. . Domani. March 2022. (Quoted)

• Broad and Shallow AI: The Promise and Perils of Competence without Comprehension. The India Forum. Jan 2022. (Column)

• Access for all: the democratisation of AI E&T Engineering and Technology. November 2021. (Quoted).

• Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI Communications of the ACM Blog. (Viewpoint) October 2021. (Made it to the top-5 articles list at #1).

• After Covid A.C.10 JTBC TV Channel. South Korea. October 2021. (Interviewed as part of a 3 part documentary on future after Covid--with special attention to AI and -- --privacy).

• A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate. Wired. September 2021. (Quoted)

• S2E10: Subbarao Kambhampati with Dhruv Batra on Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats. Podcast. An hour long interview. September 2021. (Interview)

• Covid-19 May Have Rewired People's Relationships with Artificial Intelligence Forever. Observer. April 2021. (Quoted)

• What's next for iris-recognition systems? ASU Now. March 2021. (Interview)

• Will Artificial Intel get along with us? Only if we design it that way. The Hill. Feb 2021. (Opinion Column)

• Who should stop unethical AI?.The New Yorker. Feb 2021. (Quoted)

• Polanyi's Revenge and AI's New Romance with Tacit Knowledge Communications of the ACM. Feb 2021 (Refereed Viewpoint). (Made it to the top-5 list at #3)

• Dancing, vacuuming, learning: What's next for robots and their creators?. ASU News. Jan 2021. (Profiles our research)

• Innovators Network Foundation Announces 2020-21 Privacy Fellows. December 2020. (Press release on my selection as a Privacy Fellow for the second year in a row)

• Samsung AI Forum 2020: Humanity Takes Center Stage in Discussing the Future of AI. Samsung Newsroom. Nov 2020.

• Samsung AI Forum Day 2: Putting People at the Center of AI Development. Samsung Newsroom. Nov 2020. (Covers my talk on Human-Aware AI ).

• Why are Artificial Intelligence systems biased?. The Hill. July 2020. (Opinion Column)

• Deepfakes Are Becoming the Hot New Corporate Training Tool. Wired. July 2020. (Quoted)

• Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Our Behavior, But It Had To Adjust To COVID-19. Word. NPR/KJZZ. June 2020. (On Air Interview)

• Computer Scientists Build New Tool to Fight Coronavirus. Freethink.com May 2020. (Interviewed/talking head). (Writeup).

• Enlisting AI in our war on coronavirus: Potential and pitfalls The Hill. March 2020. (Opinion Column)

• Our Deepfake Future. Virginia Quarterly Review. Spring 2020. (Interview in comic form!).

• Researchers Publish Survey of Explainable AI InfoQ. March 2020. (Coverage of our research)

• Trump Proposes a Cut in Research Spending, but a Boost for AI. Wired. February 2020. (Quoted)

• WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE OPERATED [ON] BY ROBOTS? Analytics India Magazine. February 2020 (Tweet quoted).

• AI computing will enter the 'land of humans' in the 2020s: The promise and the peril. The Hill. January 2020. (Opinion Column)

• Facebook says it will ban 'Deepfakes'. New York Times January 2020. (Quoted)

• Is seeing still believing? The deepfake challenge to truth in politics. Brookings Institution. January 2020. (Quoted)

• It's Time to Deep-Six Deepfakes. The National Interest. January 2020 (Quoted).

• Deepfake Videos Are Spreading. Can Anyone Stop Them?. Broadband Communities Magazine. Jan/Feb 2020. (Quoted)

• Fake Trump video? How to spot deepfakes on Facebook and YouTube ahead of the presidential election. USA Today. January 2020. (Quoted)

• Searching for information on Iran's missile strike? Google, YouTube lean on trusted sources; Facebook doesn't. USA Today. January 2020. (Quoted)

• Whither "Artificial Intelligence"? CSI Communications. Computer Society of India. December 2019. (View point; page 8-9)

• ASU engineering professor elected as ACM Fellow. ASU Now. December 2019. (Profile/News)

• Robot coworkers: How AI impacts the future of work. ASU News. (Research Profiled)

• Internet Companies Prepare to Fight the 'Deepfake' Future New York Times. November 2019. (Quoted)

• Perception won't be reality, once AI can manipulate what we see. . The Hill. November 2019. (Opinion Column)

• What just happened? The rise of interest in Artificial Intelligence . The Hill. August 2019. (Opinion Column)
  • AI Stats News: Data is eating the world quote of the week . Forbes. August 2019. (Quoted)

• # Wahl19 #Image: How pictures make politicians Der Standard (Austrian). September 2019. (Quotes our ICWSM 2016 paper).

• 'Deepfake face swap' app ZAO is making people afraid of the future. BoingBoing(Blog). Septemeber, 2019. (Tweet-quoted)

• The Age of Artificial Intelligence . Channel News Asia. August 2019. (Interviewed on the news story)

• Data biases can skew outcomes of AI-based systems. The Hindu Business Line. July 2019. (Coverage of my lecture in Hyderabad, India)

• When Atta Halilintar, the YouTube Child (is) Rejected on Twitter. Tirto (Indonesian). August 2019. (Quotes our ICWSM 2016 paper).

• When it comes to #MeToo, is Instagram the new Twitter?". Footwear News(!). July 2019. (Quotes our ICWSM 2016 paper).

• కృత్రిమ మేధకు లోకజ్ఞానం తెలియదు . Eeenadu. July 2019. (Coverage of my lecture in Hyderabad, India)

• Comments on AI-based Wimbledon highlights; Starts 13th min at the link Details with Andrey Derkach. Voice of America Russian Edition. July 2019.

• Don't Fear The Black Box: Interpreting the Future of AI Future Now (Vol 3). May, 2019. (Quotes me saying that explanation being about the mental model you have of the other person).

• AI Conference AAMAS: With warm-heartedness and irony, the robot dialogue succeeds. Heise Online, May 2019 (Coverage of my AAMAS invited talk)

• Renowned AI Expert Subbarao Kambhampati Speaks at PDLS. SMU News. (April 2019) (Coverage of my talk)

• The Rise of AI and Its Challenges Interview on Channel News Asia. April, 2019.

• When is it OK for AI to Lie? ASU Now. January 2019. (Coverage of our research)

• Leading experts in Philosophy, Economics, Law and More Convene at AIES 2019 to Assess Impact of AI on Society. ACM News Release. January 2019. (Our paper is one of the 7 highlighted).

• Don't Panic: AI will always need you. The App Association Blog. December 2018. (Covers my FCC keynote)

• Pai Advises Real Regulatory Humility on Artificial Intelligence B+C November 2018. (My remarks at FCC covered).

• FCC Chair Calls for Regulatory Restraint for Developing AI. Cablefax. November 2018. (Quoted).

• Google Tweaks Email Program That Assumed An Investor Was Male. NPR. November 2018. (Quoted).

• Que le falta mejorar a la inteligencia artificial Las Ultimas Noticias. (Chile). November 2018. (Coverage of a speech).

• Inteligencia Artificial: Las maquinas que sorprendieron en encuentro internacional realizado santiago. Etstrategia. November 2018. (Coverage).

• Das Silicon Valley will Algorithmen Moral beibringen – große Konzerne schließen sich an Handelsblatt (Germany). October 2018. (Quoted)

• AI and machine learning can improve ASU students' lives, researchers say. State Press. August 2018. (Covers research in our lab).

• Infra to collect data is the tough part: Subbarao Kambhampati, professor, computer science, Arizona State University . The Economic Times (India). Profile/Interview. June 2018.

• Voices in AI: A conversation with Subbarao Kambhampati. Voices in AI Podcast (audio + transcript). Jun 2018.

• How India is carving out a niche for itself in the field of Artificial. Intelligence. The Economic Times (India). Quoted. June 2018.

• The price of panic: ASU experts ground us in what AI really is and can be . ASU State Press Magazine. (Featured). June 2018.

• Fear and hope in the age of AI. Fountain Ink. (Long form magazine; India). May 2018.

• The Trump Administration Finally Looks at Artificial Intelligence Le Temps (French). May 2018.

• Inside the Transformation: Our Relationship with AI (Episode 107H). KQED Television (Bay Area). April 2018.

• Researchers study effects of photo filters on social media The State Press. April 2018. (Coverage of our research)

• What Uber's fatal accident could mean for the autonomous-car industry . MIT Technology Review. March 2018. (Quoted).

• Business leaders discuss the future of a digital workforce at ASU event. ASU Now. March 2018. (Coverage)

• The pros and cons of AI ASU Now. March 2018. (Interview)

• Global Governance of AI Roundtable: World Government Summit 2018, The Future Society. March, 2018. (Interivew)

• Should AI bots lie? Hard truths about Artificial Intelligence ZDNet.com. (Feb 2018). (Coverage of our research)

• China's AI Imperative Science Magazine. (Feb 2018). (Quoted).

• Questioning AI: What are the key research challenges?" The Guardian Science Weekly Podcast. (Jan 2018). (Participant)

• #1: The Landscape of Artificial Intelligence with Rao Kambhampati Vocies of AI. Jan 2017. (Podcast Interview).

• Sophia: This is downright scam Leiphone. (Jan 2018). (Quoted) [Also on 36KR.com]

• Artificial Intelligence in 2017 still can't understand humans Mashable. December 2017 (Interviewed).

• Exemplary leadership, significant contributions earn ASU professors AAAS Fellow status ASU Now. December 2017. (Profile about AAAS Fellowship).

• Over a Dozen Outstanding Indian American Scientists Named 2017 AAAS Fellows India West. December 2017. (Mention)

• 19 Indian Americans recognized by American Association for the Advancement of Science News India Times. December 2017. (Mention)

• How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming local business Phonenix Business Journal. (Quoted). November 2017.

• The future of autonomous weapon regulation relies on public awareness . Venture Beat. November, 2017. (Quoted)

• AI taught itself to beat us at our own game — what does it mean? . ASU Now. (Q&A) November 2017. >

• I'm a pacifist, so why don't I support the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots? The Guardian. UK. November, 2017. (Op-Ed)
  • An audio podcast version by Curio.io.

• Artificial intelligence risks GM-style public backlash, experts warn. The Guardian. UK. November, 2017. (Quoted)

• Our Relationship with AI KQED Radio. Radio Special. November, 2017. (Radio broadcast of CHM panel)

• How Closer Are We to Robots Replacing Us? Seeker Media Video Segment. How Close Are We? series. Oct 2017. (Featured)

• Elon Musk predicts that A.I. is 'Most Likly Cause of World War III'. Inverse. September 2017 (Reprinted in Yahoo).

• Solar Reflections: Have Machines Eclipsed Humans? Alley Watch, August 2017. (Quoted).

• AI Scientists to Elon Musk: Stop Saying Robots Will Kill Us All. Inverse (interview), July 2017.
  • Elon Musk SLAMMED by top researchers for scaremongering over dangers of AI, Daily Express (UK), July 2017.
  • AI Researchers Disagree With Elon Musk’s Warnings About Artificial Intelligence Futurism (quoted). July 2017.
  • Artificial Intelligence Experts Rebut Elon Musk's Warning and Call for Regulation, Christian Post, July 2017.
  • Elon Musk Called An Alarmist By AI Experts, Machine Overlords A Far-Fetched Idea EconoTimes, July 2017.
  • Elon Musk und KI: Widerspruch aus der Forschung Trends der Zukunft. July 2017. (German)
  • Des experts en IA reprochent Elon Elon Musk de se montrer trop alarmiste Numerama. July 2017. (French)
  • Yapay zeka arastirmacilari Elon Musk ile ayni fikidre degil Webrazzi, July 2017 (Turkish)

• Le gouvernement américain néglige-t-il l’intelligence artificielle? Le Temps (French). July 2017.

• Voice AI might still have a long way to go TV interview. CGTN Live. TV Segment, Shenzen, China. July 2017.

• Interview with Leifeng Net. July 2017.

• China press coverage of my plenary presentation at CCF-GAIR, 2017, Shenzen. Leiphone, July 2017. ( Coverage of the talk and Interview.)

• AI Revolution Reshaping Chinese Society. Today (Singapore). June 2017. (Quoted)

• Dewey Decimal Drama. Every Little Thing (Gimlet Media). Interview about biases in Dewey Decimal System and AI. June 2017.

• Artificial intelligence's potential impacts raise promising possibilities, societal challenges. Phys.Org. June, 2017. (Also on ASU Now).

• Coverage of the inaguration of AAAI India Chapter, and invited lecture at IIIT-Hyderabad. Various Indian news media. June 2017.

• Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?. New York Times. May 2017. (Quoted on the proposed U.S. budget and preparing for the future with A.I.)

• Tech majority disagrees with AI warnings from Hawkings, Musk and Gates. Network World. May 2017. (Coverage of paper)

• ASU Team Taking Concept for Closer Human-Robot Connection to U.S. Imagine Cup Finals. Full Circle, April 2017 (Coverage of Work) (Version in ASU Now)

• Human-Robot Communication. Cronkite News. April 2017. (Coverage of Work)

• Episode 3: Machines Take Over the World. From robots that paint Rembrandts to Twitterbots gone rogue, Bill and his guests explore the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence Panelist. Bill Nye Saves the World. Netflix Original Series. April 2017.

• Eminent Astrophysicist Issues a Dire Warning on AI and Alien Life (Quoted). Futurism April, 2017.

• How Trump's 'extreme vetting' hurts science and tech ComputerWorld (Quoted). March, 2017.

• Fighting AI with AI Off Air, Science Friday. March 2017. (Quoted)

• Computer hacks of the future and how to prevent them NPR Science Friday segment with Ira Flatow about AI & Security. Februrary, 2017.

• Our Bots, Ourselves. The Atlantic. March 2017. (Print edition) (Quoted).

• China's Artificial Intelligence Boom. The Atlantic. Feb 2017. (Online) (Quoted).

• AAAI and internationalization: An interview Leiphone; Feb 2017. (Interview)

• Asm pretenden Google, Apple y el resto de gigantes educar a la inteligencia artificial; Article on Partnership for AI; El Diario. Feb 2017. (Quoted).

• Coverage about the inaugural board of trustees for the Partnership for AI. (Jan 2017) (TechCrunch, Wallstreet Journal, Quartz, Inverse, MS Power User, The Tech Portal Forbes, Kabir News ).

• Tech Giants Team Up To Tackle The Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence. Quoted in an article on Partnership on AI, NPR All Tech Considered. September, 2016.

  • Why tech giants are forming an AI coalition. Christian Science Monitor. September, 2016. (Quoted)

  • Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM og Microsoft skal samarbeide om kunstig intelligens, Digi.No (In Norwegian) (Quoted) (September 2016)

  • Gemeinsame Standards ORF.at (Austrian site in German) (quoted) (September 2016)

• How 'human-aware' AI could save us from the robopocalypse A write-up on IJCAI 2016 theme in PC World, ComputerWorld etc. July, 2016

• The Difference Between Robot's Artificial Intelligence And Humans An interview on KJZZ Public Radio Station; 3/17/2016.

• Experts explain the biggest obstacles to creating human-like robots. Tech Insider. 3/6/2016

• Artificial Intelligence Just Mastered Go, But One Game Still Gives AI Trouble Discover Magazine (quoted in), 1/27/2016.

• Can AI solve information overload? CIO Magazine. (Quoted). 12/29/2015.

• Old School Photography Techniques are making a comeback: On Instagram (Phoenix New Times, 12/15)

• 18 AI researchers reveal the most impressive thing they've ever seen (TechInsider, 11/15)

• This phenomenon explains what everyone gets wrong about AI (TechInsider, 10/15)

• The future may be full of intentionally clumsy and apologetic robots (TechInsider, 10/15)

• I binge-watched 7 movies about artificial intelligence and the most accurate one was a cartoon (Business Insider, Australia; 8/15)

• 19 A.I. experts reveal the biggest myths about robots (Tech Insider; 10/15).

• HUMAN BRAINS ARE TOO PUNY and 15 more reasons why top researchers are obsessed with AI (Business Insider, India; 10/15)

• Los mejores filtros para que tus fotos sean un éxito en redes sociales, según la ciencia BBC Mundo (in Spanish) 6/15.

• Turns Out There Are a Lot of Academics Studying Photo Filters Wired.com; 5/15)

• Which Instagram filter should you use? Science has the answer (Sydney Morning Herald; 5/15)

• Instagram Is Vast But Its Favorite Themes Are Surprisingly Few, Study Shows ABC News Online; 10/14)

• Is Twitter Bad For Language? Statistical Analysis Says No (Huffington Post excerpts from the book Dataclysm which profiles our work on Twitter Language (9/14)

• Twitter Analysis of Public Opinion PBS Horizon, 10/13).

• Tapping Twitter data for in-depth analysis of public opinion (ASU News; 9/13)

• Professors using blogs, podcasts as teaching tools The Arizona Republic and other venues; 2/07)