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AI companion bots as a public health issue: A new framework for regulation
11-12pm EDT Tuesday, May 26, 2026, Online
AI companion bots are reshaping how people connect, confide, and cope, with children and adolescents among their most active users. Even as evidence of their potential social and developmental...
Posted: May 12, 2026, 4:46 PM
People use the Internet to diagnose themselves—Can this UMBC student’s work help moderate medical content on the web?
In 2024, information systems Ph.D. student Ommo Clark penned an opinion piece for BusinessDay Nigeria exploring why many Nigerians diagnose and treat their medical conditions themselves, often...
Posted: August 17, 2025, 5:22 PM
UMBC researchers explore how a robot dance partner could help us de-stress
The performance in June during the Movement, Music, and Brain Health NSF AccelNet meeting at UMBC was the brainchild of three UMBC faculty who have joined forces to explore whether and how dancing...
Posted: July 12, 2025, 5:15 PM
