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Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that UB will receive $5 million to launch the new Department of AI and Society. 

Supported by Gov. Kathy Hochul and SUNY, the department will train students how to responsibly use AI, and help UB researchers advance AI for the public good.

University at Buffalo-led research team addresses nationwide shortage of speech-language pathologists.

Blanton is recognized for her contributions to the advancement of privacy-preserving computation.

Agence France-Presse featured Siwei Lyu in an article about AI-generated images showing destruction from the Myanmar earthquake.

Lead Stories utilized the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in UB’s Media Forensic Lab, to prove that a video showing Elon Musk telling President Donald Trump that "Tesla is going down" is AI-generated. 

Agence France-Presse quoted Siwei Lyu in a report about false claims that are circulating online about the Gunung Padang archaeological site in Indonesia's West Java being a pyramid. 

Agence France-Presse quoted Siwei Lyu in an article about AI-generated images showing crocodile riding festivals. 

Lead Stories utilized the DeepFake-o-Meter, developed by Siwei Lyu and his team in the Media Forensic Lab, to prove that circulating images of child marriages were AI-generated. 

WBFO-FM reported that UB researchers, co-led by Wenyao Xu , partnered with students from China in 2018 to develop a program that tracks potholes using small sensors in road surfaces in a story about current plans to fill in potholes around Buffalo.