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Throughout history, political candidates have utilized falsehoods to sway voters, leveraging mistruths to discredit opponents or bolster their image. This age-old tactic has long been protected under the First Amendment's right to free speech. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed these strategies, enabling the creation of hyper-realistic fake images, videos, and audio, further complicating the landscape of political misinformation.Fake images, though fabricated, are protected under the same legal principles as traditional political lies, according to research by journalism professors Jeremy Littau and Daxton R. Stewart. Their study, The Right to Lie with AI?, delves into the First Amendment's implications on AI-driven false political speech.

While people are growing more accustomed to AI-driven personal assistants, customer service chatbots and even financial advisors, when it comes to healthcare, most still want it with a human touch. Given that receiving healthcare is a deeply personal experience, it’s understandable that patients prefer it to come from, well, a person. But with AI’s vast potential to increase the quality, efficacy and efficiency of medicine, a push toward greater acceptance of artificial intelligence-driven medicine could unlock benefits for patients and providers.

Thomas Friedman, the internationally renowned and award-winning author, reporter, and columnist will deliver the annual Kenner Lecture on Cultural Understanding, Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 8:00 p.m. in Zoellner Arts Center’s Baker Hall.

Mary Foltz and local community members establish a historical marker in Kutztown honoring LGBTQ+ artist and activist Keith Haring

Meet the new director of the Africana Studies program and new faculty member of the English Department Simone A. James Alexander.

Suzanne Edwards' edited volume with Matthew X. Vernon highlights women's medievalism which has often been silenced.

Physicist Rosi Reed investigates elements that hold the universe together.

Historian Nitzan Lebovic is examining how the concept of time itself has evolved by studying the thoughts and writings of influential 20th-century German Jewish thinkers.

Lisa Fredin employs quantum mechanics to examine the chemical physics of catalytic materials.

Lehigh theatre professor takes a collaborative approach to creating the world of a play.

Graduate student Heidi Kline assesses government policies as part of an affordable housing project.

Bruce Whitehouse studies polygamy in Mali for a decade and publishes a book on why it has endured in West Africa.