Upcoming Events
Alexandr Lenk & Arvind Karunakaran | Industry Conversation with Instacart
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
Alexandr Lenk & Arvind Karunakaran | Industry Conversation with Instacart
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Stephen Baccus
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Jiajun Wu, and Russell Wald | The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Jiajun Wu, and Russell Wald | The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Gordon Wetzstein
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Anastasios Angelopoulos | Measuring AI in the Real World
This seminar co-hosted with the AI Measurement Science Center (AIMS) invites speakers to discuss academic work in AI evaluation and measurement science.
Anastasios Angelopoulos | Measuring AI in the Real World
This seminar co-hosted with the AI Measurement Science Center (AIMS) invites speakers to discuss academic work in AI evaluation and measurement science.
Tim de Silva | AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications
Tim de Silva | AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Olivier Gevaert
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Curtis Langlotz
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Anshul Kundaje
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead
The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.
Confronting Our AI Future: Hope, Fear, and the Choices Ahead
The rapid acceleration of AI comes with a profound wave of anxiety. Across every sector of society, people are facing unsettling questions about their worth and their place in a shifting world.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Dan Yamins
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Dan Yamins
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marcos Santiago Rojas Pino & Thomas Caruso | Building an International AI Platform for Health Professions Education and the Learning Sciences
Clinical Mind AI is a Stanford-developed, international collaborative platform designed to strengthen clinical reasoning education through AI-simulated patient encounters across health professions.
Marcos Santiago Rojas Pino & Thomas Caruso | Building an International AI Platform for Health Professions Education and the Learning Sciences
Clinical Mind AI is a Stanford-developed, international collaborative platform designed to strengthen clinical reasoning education through AI-simulated patient encounters across health professions.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Ruijiang Li
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Ruijiang Li
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Mohsen Bayati
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
AI100 | AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI
This talk will cover key insights from the third AI100 report, AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI, set for release in October 2026. The report was commissioned by the AI100 standing committee and led by study panel chair Michael Wooldridge.
AI100 | AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI
This talk will cover key insights from the third AI100 report, AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI, set for release in October 2026. The report was commissioned by the AI100 standing committee and led by study panel chair Michael Wooldridge.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Andreas Tolias
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Leonidas Guibas
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Angèle Christin & Hannah Zeavin | Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media
Please join us for an illuminating investigation of the complex work of social media content creators—their lives, conflicts, and controversies.
Angèle Christin & Hannah Zeavin | Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media
Please join us for an illuminating investigation of the complex work of social media content creators—their lives, conflicts, and controversies.
Featured Videos
Hear from speakers and attendees at recent Stanford HAI events across research, policy, and education.
Previous Events at HAI
Arvind Narayanan | Adapting to the Transformation of Knowledge Work
The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
Arvind Narayanan | Adapting to the Transformation of Knowledge Work
The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
Wolfgang Lehrach | Code World Models for General Game Playing
While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in many domains, relying on them for direct policy generation in games often results in illegal moves and poor strategic play.
Wolfgang Lehrach | Code World Models for General Game Playing
While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in many domains, relying on them for direct policy generation in games often results in illegal moves and poor strategic play.
Kristina McElheran | The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s)
We examine the prevalence and productivity dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI) in American manufacturing. Working with the Census Bureau to collect detailed large-scale data for 2017 and 2021, we focus on AI-related technologies with industrial applications.
Kristina McElheran | The Rise of Industrial AI in America: Microfoundations of the Productivity J-curve(s)
We examine the prevalence and productivity dynamics of artificial intelligence (AI) in American manufacturing. Working with the Census Bureau to collect detailed large-scale data for 2017 and 2021, we focus on AI-related technologies with industrial applications.
AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery
AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers across physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, and more to examine how AI is reshaping scientific discovery.
AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery
AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers across physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, neuroscience, and more to examine how AI is reshaping scientific discovery.
Center for Neural Data Science Seminar with Katrin Franke
Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Ben Golub, Northwestern University
Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Ben Golub, Northwestern University
CORES Annual Symposium 2026: AI and Scientific Reproducibility
Stanford Causal Science Conference
Frontiers in AI Evaluation
NVIDIA & Marlowe: Training Robots with World Foundation Models
Matt Beane | Precision Proactivity: Measuring Cognitive Load in Real-World AI-Assisted Work
Systems like ChatGPT and Claude assist billions through proactive dialogue—offering unsolicited, task-relevant information. Drawing on Cognitive Load Theory, we study how cognitive load shapes performance in AI assisted knowledge work.
Matt Beane | Precision Proactivity: Measuring Cognitive Load in Real-World AI-Assisted Work
Systems like ChatGPT and Claude assist billions through proactive dialogue—offering unsolicited, task-relevant information. Drawing on Cognitive Load Theory, we study how cognitive load shapes performance in AI assisted knowledge work.