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A new Stanford study reveals that AI therapy chatbots may not only lack effectiveness compared to human therapists but could also contribute to harmful stigma and dangerous responses.
The 2025 RAISE Health Symposium will build on last year’s discussions, taking stock of AI’s rapid evolution in biomedicine and discussing practical challenges and solutions to ensure its safe and responsible use.
In today’s robot revolution, a record 3.1 million robots are now working in factories, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance.
We invited 11 sci-fi filmmakers and AI researchers to Stanford for Stories for the Future, a day-and-a-half experiment in fostering new narratives about AI. Researchers shared perspectives on AI and filmmakers reflected on the challenges of writing AI narratives. Together researcher-writer pairs transformed a research paper into a written scene. The challenge? Each scene had to include an AI manifestation, but could not be about the personhood of AI or AI as a threat. Read the results of this project.
In this recent interview on PBS’ Firing Line with Margaret Hoover, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, discusses the dual nature of artificial intelligence as both a powerful tool for societal benefit and a potential risk if misused. She emphasizes the importance of ethical governance in AI development, advocating for a collaborative approach involving many perspectives to ensure that technological advancements prioritize human dignity and well-being.
Our vision for the future is led by our commitment to studying, guiding, and developing human-centered AI technologies and applications. We believe AI should be collaborative, augmentative, and enhancing human productivity and quality of life.
We empower leaders in education, policy, and civil society with AI fundamentals to amplify their impact for humanity.
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Focusing on AI technologies across industries and their business implications, Stanford faculty offer courses for leaders and key decision-makers.
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Exploring the unique opportunities and challenges that AI presents in civil society, philanthropy, and nonprofits.
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Policymakers and civil servants are at the front lines of decision-making on emerging technologies such as AI. Recognizing the valuable role they play in the AI governance ecosystem, Stanford HAI has developed specialized training programs to meet their needs.
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Educating the next generation of AI leaders is core to what HAI is all about. Essential to this mission are leaders and decision makers within the K-12 ecosystem, teachers, and students
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We have a historical opportunity and responsibility to establish a human-centered frameworkfor AI research, education, practice and policy.
At HAI, we view the field of AI as spanning the entire university. Unless we tap into the full gamut of disciplinary expertise we cannot hope to realize the potential of the technology while avoiding its pitfalls.
HAI was established to support innovative AI research that bridges disciplines and fields. The Institute aims to appoint and support promising researchers through its fellowship programs who are working at intersections often overlooked by traditional academic departments, in addition to outstanding researchers pursuing core disciplinary topics.
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI strives to foster a culture of interdisciplinary AI research in which technological advancements are inextricably linked to research about their potential societal impacts. HAI builds on the strength of Stanford research by offering many grant programs.
Affinity Groups provide a space for students to share ideas, develop intellectually and strengthen the community of future leaders dedicated to building AI that benefits all of humanity.
A new Stanford study reveals that AI therapy chatbots may not only lack effectiveness compared to human therapists but could also contribute to harmful stigma and dangerous responses.
As part of Stanford's emphasis on advancing responsible AI, Stanford HAI and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) are teaming up to build on their existing legacies on the foundations, development, applications, and study of AI technologies.
MIT economist David Autor argues that focusing on exposure alone misses the nuances of how experts and nonexperts experience task shifts.
Researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze the brain scans of students solving math problems, offering the first-ever peek into the neuroscience of math disabilities.
Daniel E. Ho, HAI Senior Fellow and Director the Stanford RegLab, is working with City Attorney David Chiu to identify and delete old, redundant municipal code sections.
HAI and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society are offering a 9-10 week fellowship for Stanford undergraduate and graduate students to engage in the technology ethics and policy field as it intersects with public policy and social impact.
Policymakers and civil servants are at the front lines of decision-making on emerging technologies such as AI. Recognizing the valuable role they play in the AI governance ecosystem, Stanford HAI has developed specialized training programs to meet their needs.
