The events featured appearances by John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Reince Priebus and other prominent political and media figures. Funds raised support the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future.
Michelle Barton has led major environmental initiatives and will help guide work on shade, heat resilience and the L.A. River.
Researchers at USC Dornsife say widely used large language models like ChatGPT and Claude could be standardizing how people communicate, reason and understand culture.
The institute — a collaboration between USC Dornsife and USC Viterbi — hosts leading AI researchers and experts addressing ethical challenges that cannot be solved by technology alone.
USC Dornsife researchers find willingness to travel for health care varies by income, mobility and location — insights that could impact the growth of telehealth as well as transportation planning.
Large language models may be standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think, say computer science and psychology researchers at USC Dornsife.
Managing fire risk is also about caring for one’s community. Learning this ethos can begin in our schools.
In celebration of the holidays, USC Dornsife scholars explore “feasts” — from celebratory meals to the hidden ingredients of the universe to the brain’s ability to track our dietary activity. Bon appétit!
USC Dornsife led an effort to analyze bodycam footage from 1,000 traffic stops across Los Angeles — data now helping train AI tools aimed at improving safety, accountability and respectful treatment during stops.
USC Dornsife study finds that food insecurity held steady at 24% in 2025, with improvements for low-income households and rising strain among others.
