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We should hone ‘responsible AI’ before Copilot goes autopilot
Merav Ozair, a professor in Wake Forest's School of Professional Studies, writes: "2025 will be the “year of AI agents,” Nvidia CEO Jenson Huang predicted in November 2024. This will pave the way to a new era: the agentic economy Huang described AI agents as “digital employees” and predicted that one day, Nvidia will have 50,000 human employees and over 100 million AI agents, and that every organization will probably see similar growth in AI workers. But describing AI agents as “digital workers” is too simplistic and undermines the ramifications of this technology."
January 8, 2025
The Milwaukee Independent
Perceptions of media bias: How demands from readers fuel the slanted views that journalists adopt
Associate Professor of Economics Tin Cheuk Leung writes: A former editor of “The New York Times,” dropped a bombshell in an article for The Economist. “The leadership of ‘The New York Times’ is losing control of its principles,” he wrote, saying slanted coverage at the institution is “pervasive.” In the article, Bennet talked about the pressures driving what he called “liberal bias” at one of the world’s most influential newspapers."
January 8, 2025
ABC News
These historic landscapes are now included in the largest corridor of federally protected land
While Biden's proclamation is not unique for a departing president, the scale of the designation is, Stan Meiburg, executive director of Wake Forest University's Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability, told ABC News. Biden is "taking advantage" of land that is already owned by the federal government and adding extra protections, Meiburg added. "This clearly reflects the importance of environmental and resource protection in how President Biden views his personal legacy."
January 7, 2025
The Assembly
N.C. Judicial Candidates violated ban on political donations
Law professor Ellen Murphy, a Wake Forest University law professor who sits on the bar’s ethics committee, called the pattern of donations that The Assembly uncovered “disappointing.” “The duty of a judge is to maintain the impartiality of the judiciary and the perception of it,” she said. “If the public perceives the judiciary as politicized, it is not a successful institution, in my opinion.”
January 7, 2025
The Charlotte Observer
Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour in NC. Did it go up with the new year?
"Minimum-wage increases are in almost all cases a product of legislation passed by Democratic-controlled state governments, or they have been enacted through voter-initiated measures in states that allow voters to initiate ballot measures," said politics professor John Dinan.
January 6, 2025
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The queer people who are buying guns to prepare for Donald Trump’s America
“It was a period of tremendous social unrest and social uncertainty. And a large number of people in the United States, under those conditions, look to firearms to reestablish some sense of safety and security,” said sociology professor David Yamane, author of the book "Gun Curious."
January 5, 2025
Bloomberg Environment
Environmental enforcement to evolve, but not vanish under Trump
Environmental enforcement is almost certain to dip under President-elect Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean the EPA won't keep looking for violations-just different ones, former agency officials say. The EPA might try to target groups that got billions of dollars in funding under the climate or infrastructure laws, surmised Stan Meiburg, a longtime EPA staffer and former acting deputy administrator. An easier path might be to scrutinize grant recipients “under the rubric of fraud, waste and abuse,” said Meiburg, now executive director of Wake Forest University’s environment and sustainability center.
January 3, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour in North Carolina. Did it go up in 2025?
For the 16th consecutive year, minimum-wage workers in North Carolina didn't receive a pay raise upon the arrival of the new year. "Minimum-wage increases are in almost all cases a product of legislation passed by Democratic-controlled state governments, or they have been enacted through voter-initiated measures in states that allow voters to initiate ballot measures," said politics professor John Dinan.
January 3, 2025
Winston-Salem Journal
NC’s purple political status may attract blue and red state newcomers
North Carolina's status as a purple political swing state may provide a boost to its continuing popularity as an in-migration destination. "Certainly, traditional factors, such as job prospects, tax rates, proximity to family and climate/weather are still key considerations," said politics professor John Dinan.
January 3, 2025
Journal of Democracy
Sri Lanka’s peaceful revolution
"Sri Lanka experienced a historic political transformation through peaceful elections that put an end to the country’s dynastic politics," writes politics and international affairs professor Neil DeVotta. "Control of every level of politics in the country will be the acid test of whether the new president and his…supporters have left Marxism behind."
January 1, 2025
WFDD-FM (Winston-Salem, NC)
Wake Forest’s Center for Entrepreneurship receives $30M donation
In early December, Wake Forest University received a whopping $30 million donation for its Center for Entrepreneurship. Dan Cohen, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, says the money, which was gifted by an anonymous donor, will go toward improving every aspect of the program from course offerings to class size. "There’s been an unbelievable positive reaction to this gift," he said. "I think the overriding sentiment is that people are super pumped and excited, both internally with our faculty and staff, but also amongst our students and parents and alums alike."
January 1, 2025
West Virginia Watch
Blue states prepare for battle over Trump’s environmental rollbacks
States often have the authority to set standards that are more stringent than the federal government, noted Stan Meiburg, executive director of the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability at Wake Forest University. “That becomes the question that states have to face: Is the protection we have left adequate to meet the environmental values we have as a state?” he said. “If it’s not, you need state legislation to protect that.”
December 31, 2024