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AllConferenceSeminars
Alexandr Lenk & Arvind Karunakaran | Industry Conversation with Instacart
SeminarSep 23, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
September
23
2026

This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.

September
23
2026

Alexandr Lenk & Arvind Karunakaran | Industry Conversation with Instacart

Sep 23, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM

This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.

Industry, Innovation
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Stephen Baccus
SeminarSep 23, 2026
September
23
2026

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.

September
23
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Stephen Baccus

Sep 23, 2026

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.

Data Science
Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Jiajun Wu, and Russell Wald | The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language
SeminarSep 30, 20263:00 PM - 4:15 PM
September
30
2026

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.

September
30
2026

Daniel Zhang, Caroline Meinhardt, Jiajun Wu, and Russell Wald | The World Model and Spatial Intelligence Era: Governing AI Beyond Language

Sep 30, 20263:00 PM - 4:15 PM

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.

Regulation, Policy, Governance
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Gordon Wetzstein
SeminarSep 30, 2026
September
30
2026

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.

September
30
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Gordon Wetzstein

Sep 30, 2026

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.

Data Science
Anastasios Angelopoulos | Measuring AI in the Real World
SeminarOct 02, 20261:00 PM - 2:15 PM
October
02
2026

This seminar co-hosted with the AI Measurement Science Center (AIMS) invites speakers to discuss academic work in AI evaluation and measurement science.

October
02
2026

Anastasios Angelopoulos | Measuring AI in the Real World

Oct 02, 20261:00 PM - 2:15 PM

This seminar co-hosted with the AI Measurement Science Center (AIMS) invites speakers to discuss academic work in AI evaluation and measurement science.

Data Science
Tim de Silva | AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications
SeminarOct 07, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
October
07
2026
October
07
2026

Tim de Silva | AI Financial Advice: Supply, Demand, and Life Cycle Implications

Oct 07, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Finance, Business
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Olivier Gevaert
SeminarOct 07, 2026
October
07
2026

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.

October
07
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Olivier Gevaert

Oct 07, 2026

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.

Data Science
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Curtis Langlotz
SeminarOct 14, 2026
October
14
2026

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.

October
14
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Curtis Langlotz

Oct 14, 2026

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.

Data Science
Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Rehan Khan
SeminarOct 20, 20266:30 PM - 8:30 PM
October
20
2026
October
20
2026

Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar with Rehan Khan

Oct 20, 20266:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Economy, Markets
Data Science
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Anshul Kundaje
SeminarOct 21, 2026
October
21
2026

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.

October
21
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Anshul Kundaje

Oct 21, 2026

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.

Data Science
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Dan Yamins
SeminarOct 28, 2026
October
28
2026

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.

October
28
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Dan Yamins

Oct 28, 2026

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.

Data Science
Marcos Santiago Rojas Pino & Thomas Caruso | Building an International AI Platform for Health Professions Education and the Learning Sciences
SeminarNov 04, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
November
04
2026

Clinical Mind AI is a Stanford-developed, international collaborative platform designed to strengthen clinical reasoning education through AI-simulated patient encounters across health professions.

November
04
2026

Marcos Santiago Rojas Pino & Thomas Caruso | Building an International AI Platform for Health Professions Education and the Learning Sciences

Nov 04, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Clinical Mind AI is a Stanford-developed, international collaborative platform designed to strengthen clinical reasoning education through AI-simulated patient encounters across health professions.

Healthcare
Education, Skills
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Ruijiang Li
SeminarNov 04, 2026
November
04
2026

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.

November
04
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Ruijiang Li

Nov 04, 2026

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.

Data Science
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Mohsen Bayati
SeminarNov 11, 2026
November
11
2026

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.

November
11
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Mohsen Bayati

Nov 11, 2026

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.

Data Science
AI100 | AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI
SeminarNov 18, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
November
18
2026

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.

November
18
2026

AI100 | AI Goes Mainstream: The Scaling Era and the Rise of Generative AI

Nov 18, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM

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.

Foundation Models
Industry, Innovation
Democracy
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Andreas Tolias
SeminarNov 18, 2026
November
18
2026

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.

November
18
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Andreas Tolias

Nov 18, 2026

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.

Data Science
Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Leonidas Guibas
SeminarDec 02, 2026
December
02
2026

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.

December
02
2026

Marlowe | AI + Data for Science with Leonidas Guibas

Dec 02, 2026

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.

Data Science
Angèle Christin & Hannah Zeavin | Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media
SeminarDec 09, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM
December
09
2026

Please join us for an illuminating investigation of the complex work of social media content creators—their lives, conflicts, and controversies. 

December
09
2026

Angèle Christin & Hannah Zeavin | Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media

Dec 09, 202612:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Please join us for an illuminating investigation of the complex work of social media content creators—their lives, conflicts, and controversies. 

Communications, Media

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Hear from speakers and attendees at recent Stanford HAI events across research, policy, and education.

Previous Events at HAI

AllConferenceSeminarsWorkshops
CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery
Nov 19, 20197:00 PM - 8:30 PM
November
19
2019

Twin revolutions at the start of the 21st century are shaking up the very idea of what it means to be human. Computer vision and image recognition are at the heart of the AI revolution. And CRISPR is a powerful new technique for genetic editing that allows humans to intervene in evolution.

CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery

Nov 19, 20197:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Twin revolutions at the start of the 21st century are shaking up the very idea of what it means to be human. Computer vision and image recognition are at the heart of the AI revolution. And CRISPR is a powerful new technique for genetic editing that allows humans to intervene in evolution.

Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion
HAI Weekly Seminar with Todd Karhu - Occupant-Favoring Autonomous Vehicles
SeminarNov 15, 201911:00 AM - 12:00 PM
November
15
2019

Good news! The near future has arrived and you’re ready to purchase your first fully autonomous vehicle. You have narrowed down your search to a few manufacturers and have just one decision left to make: How would you like your vehicle to respond if it finds itself in a potential collision with other autonomous vehicles?

HAI Weekly Seminar with Todd Karhu - Occupant-Favoring Autonomous Vehicles

Nov 15, 201911:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Good news! The near future has arrived and you’re ready to purchase your first fully autonomous vehicle. You have narrowed down your search to a few manufacturers and have just one decision left to make: How would you like your vehicle to respond if it finds itself in a potential collision with other autonomous vehicles?

Automation
Industry, Innovation
HAI Monthly Community Building Reception - Compassionate intelligence: Can machine learning bring more humanity to health care?
Nov 12, 20194:00 PM - 5:00 PM
November
12
2019

We will describe the Stanford Medicine Program for AI in Healthcare, which aims to bring AI into clinical use, safely and ethically. The session will begin with an overview of the effort and then focus on describing a project to improve palliative care using machine learning. We will summarize the creation and validation of a mortality prediction model, describe the associated care planning workflow it triggers and the work constraints it needs to function under. We will present  preliminary results on an HAI supported project for understanding and addressing ethical challenges with implementation of machine learning to advance palliative care. Using this real-life example, we will elucidate several of the ethical challenges that need to be studied and addressed when combining artificial intelligence technologies with medical expertise to help doctors make faster, more informed and humane decisions. 

HAI Monthly Community Building Reception - Compassionate intelligence: Can machine learning bring more humanity to health care?

Nov 12, 20194:00 PM - 5:00 PM

We will describe the Stanford Medicine Program for AI in Healthcare, which aims to bring AI into clinical use, safely and ethically. The session will begin with an overview of the effort and then focus on describing a project to improve palliative care using machine learning. We will summarize the creation and validation of a mortality prediction model, describe the associated care planning workflow it triggers and the work constraints it needs to function under. We will present  preliminary results on an HAI supported project for understanding and addressing ethical challenges with implementation of machine learning to advance palliative care. Using this real-life example, we will elucidate several of the ethical challenges that need to be studied and addressed when combining artificial intelligence technologies with medical expertise to help doctors make faster, more informed and humane decisions. 

Healthcare
HAI Weekly Seminar with Pamela Chen
SeminarNov 08, 201911:00 AM - 12:00 PM
November
08
2019

In this talk, Pamela Chen, 2020 Human-Centered AI and JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford, shares her experiences leading an editorial team at Instagram as the company scaled content discovery to serve more than 1 billion monthly active users. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go as planned. 

HAI Weekly Seminar with Pamela Chen

Nov 08, 201911:00 AM - 12:00 PM

In this talk, Pamela Chen, 2020 Human-Centered AI and JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford, shares her experiences leading an editorial team at Instagram as the company scaled content discovery to serve more than 1 billion monthly active users. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go as planned. 

Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Hope, The Hype, The Promise, The Peril
Nov 08, 20198:00 AM - 5:00 PM
November
08
2019

This conference is anchored and building on the release of the Special National Academy of Medicine (NAM) publication titled: “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Hope, The Hype, The Promise, The Peril.” Co-led by Michael Matheny and Sonoo Thadaney Israni.

Objectives At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to: 
  1. Evaluate AI in the healthcare landscape

  2. Critically assess the opportunities for AI in healthcare

  3. Develop appropriate criteria for evaluating/deploying AI solutions

  4. Build frameworks for creating and testing AI healthcare solutions

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Hope, The Hype, The Promise, The Peril

Nov 08, 20198:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This conference is anchored and building on the release of the Special National Academy of Medicine (NAM) publication titled: “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: The Hope, The Hype, The Promise, The Peril.” Co-led by Michael Matheny and Sonoo Thadaney Israni.

Objectives At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to: 
  1. Evaluate AI in the healthcare landscape

  2. Critically assess the opportunities for AI in healthcare

  3. Develop appropriate criteria for evaluating/deploying AI solutions

  4. Build frameworks for creating and testing AI healthcare solutions

Healthcare
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Trusted, Reliable and Safe
Oct 30, 201912:00 PM - 4:00 PM
October
30
2019

The next generation of user experiences will produce 1000-fold improvements in human capabilities.  This new tools will amplify, augment, enhance, and empower people, just as the Web, email, search, navigation, digital photography, and many other applications have already done. Rather than emphasize autonomous machines and humanoid robots as team partners, these new tools will produce comprehensible, predictable, and controllable applications that promote self-efficacy, human responsibility, and social participation at scale.  The goal is to ensure human control, while increasing the level of automation. 

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: Trusted, Reliable and Safe

Oct 30, 201912:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The next generation of user experiences will produce 1000-fold improvements in human capabilities.  This new tools will amplify, augment, enhance, and empower people, just as the Web, email, search, navigation, digital photography, and many other applications have already done. Rather than emphasize autonomous machines and humanoid robots as team partners, these new tools will produce comprehensible, predictable, and controllable applications that promote self-efficacy, human responsibility, and social participation at scale.  The goal is to ensure human control, while increasing the level of automation. 

Ethics, Equity, Inclusion
AI and Ethics
WorkshopOct 30, 20199:00 AM - 3:00 PM
October
30
2019

Faculty Leaders: Rob Reich and Seth Lazar

Conversations about ethics and AI are commonplace today, but they are often pitched at a high level of generality or abstraction. In this workshop, we gathered together leading young scholars, chiefly philosophers, to discuss a more detailed research agenda with a particular focus on moral and political philosophy and their intersections with AI.  Topics included AI and explainability, AI and value alignment, governance of AI, and more. 

AI and Ethics

Oct 30, 20199:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Faculty Leaders: Rob Reich and Seth Lazar

Conversations about ethics and AI are commonplace today, but they are often pitched at a high level of generality or abstraction. In this workshop, we gathered together leading young scholars, chiefly philosophers, to discuss a more detailed research agenda with a particular focus on moral and political philosophy and their intersections with AI.  Topics included AI and explainability, AI and value alignment, governance of AI, and more. 

AI and Digital Policy in China
Oct 29, 201910:00 AM - 3:00 PM
October
29
2019

China’s government and tech industry have great ambitions for artificial intelligence development and leadership, and Chinese society is facing economic, ethical, and regulatory challenges related to AI much like those around the world. At a time when the U.S. and Chinese governments are locked in escalating disputes over technology and trade, understanding Chinese ambitions, realities, and politics surrounding digital technologies is ever more important. Hosted by DigiChina, a project of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance and the New America Cybersecurity Initiative.  Speakers include: Shazeda Ahmed, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information; Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Center for International Security and CooperationRogier Creemers, Assistant Professor in the Law and Governance of China, University of LeidenAndrew Grotto, William J. Perry International Security Fellow and Director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center; Visiting Fellow, Hoover InstitutionSamm Sacks, Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow, New AmericaKatharin Tai, PhD Student, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraham Webster, Coordinating Editor, Stanford-New America DigiChina Project; China Digital Economy Fellow, New AmericaWu Shenkuo, Professor of Law, Beijing Normal UniversityJulia Voo, Research Director, China Cyber Policy Initiative, Harvard Belfer CenterYuan Yang, China Technology Correspondent, Financial Times The organizers are grateful for the support of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-digital-policy-in-china-tickets-76168400737 *Please park in the Galvez Lot (L-96) in one of the spaces with a HAI Only reserved sign. 

AI and Digital Policy in China

Oct 29, 201910:00 AM - 3:00 PM

China’s government and tech industry have great ambitions for artificial intelligence development and leadership, and Chinese society is facing economic, ethical, and regulatory challenges related to AI much like those around the world. At a time when the U.S. and Chinese governments are locked in escalating disputes over technology and trade, understanding Chinese ambitions, realities, and politics surrounding digital technologies is ever more important. Hosted by DigiChina, a project of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance and the New America Cybersecurity Initiative.  Speakers include: Shazeda Ahmed, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Information; Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Center for International Security and CooperationRogier Creemers, Assistant Professor in the Law and Governance of China, University of LeidenAndrew Grotto, William J. Perry International Security Fellow and Director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center; Visiting Fellow, Hoover InstitutionSamm Sacks, Cybersecurity Policy and China Digital Economy Fellow, New AmericaKatharin Tai, PhD Student, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGraham Webster, Coordinating Editor, Stanford-New America DigiChina Project; China Digital Economy Fellow, New AmericaWu Shenkuo, Professor of Law, Beijing Normal UniversityJulia Voo, Research Director, China Cyber Policy Initiative, Harvard Belfer CenterYuan Yang, China Technology Correspondent, Financial Times The organizers are grateful for the support of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-digital-policy-in-china-tickets-76168400737 *Please park in the Galvez Lot (L-96) in one of the spaces with a HAI Only reserved sign. 

Ethics, Equity, Inclusion
Government, Public Administration
Regulation, Policy, Governance
2019 Fall Conference: AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance
ConferenceOct 28, 2019
October
28
2019

HAI's October 28-29 conference on AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance at Stanford University will convene experts and leaders from academia, industry, civil society, and government to explore critical and emerging issues related to understanding and guiding AI's human and societal impact. Through plenary discussions, breakout sessions, and workshops we will explore the latest research, delve into case studies, illuminate best practices, and build a global community of research, policy, and practice committed to ensuring that AI benefits humanity. 

2019 Fall Conference: AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance

Oct 28, 2019

HAI's October 28-29 conference on AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance at Stanford University will convene experts and leaders from academia, industry, civil society, and government to explore critical and emerging issues related to understanding and guiding AI's human and societal impact. Through plenary discussions, breakout sessions, and workshops we will explore the latest research, delve into case studies, illuminate best practices, and build a global community of research, policy, and practice committed to ensuring that AI benefits humanity. 

Ethics, Equity, Inclusion
Regulation, Policy, Governance
Embedding the Human in AI Research
WorkshopOct 18, 201912:00 AM - 3:00 PM
October
18
2019

Faculty Leaders: Jeff Hancock, Angèle Christin, Gaby Harari, and Londa Schiebinger

 How can we integrate the human into work on artificial intelligence? How can we best define “human-centered”? Can HAI develop a mechanism that facilitates collaboration across disciplines to promote human-centered AI? These were some of the central questions that brought together 15 Stanford faculty members and researchers from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science for the “Embedding the Human in AI Research” workshop. As ethical AI guidelines are springing up, central questions of human-centeredness and effective collaboration remain open. Between 2011 and 2018, 84 ethical statements appeared globally, with 88% released after 2016 (Jobin, Ienca, & Vayena, Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019). Jobin et al., found that top topics of interest included: transparency, justice & fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility, and privacy. Not well represented was sustainability, defined as deploying AI to help protect the environment, improve the planet’s ecosystem, and promote peace. How do we put such ethical aspirations into action in HAI research? Can we develop a mechanism mechanism for HAI by which social scientists/humanists and technical people collaborate from the VERY BEGINNING when setting research priorities and formulating research questions?  Overall: There was excellent discussion. A number of participants were new faculty at Stanford. They express concerns about time spent on interdisciplinary work, but were intrigued and pleased to be invited. Participants raised questions about how cultural and structural approaches can better be integrated into AI research. While there is growing attention to ethics within technology, ethics is very individualized, despite the fact that inequalities and biases can be systematic.

Embedding the Human in AI Research

Oct 18, 201912:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Faculty Leaders: Jeff Hancock, Angèle Christin, Gaby Harari, and Londa Schiebinger

 How can we integrate the human into work on artificial intelligence? How can we best define “human-centered”? Can HAI develop a mechanism that facilitates collaboration across disciplines to promote human-centered AI? These were some of the central questions that brought together 15 Stanford faculty members and researchers from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science for the “Embedding the Human in AI Research” workshop. As ethical AI guidelines are springing up, central questions of human-centeredness and effective collaboration remain open. Between 2011 and 2018, 84 ethical statements appeared globally, with 88% released after 2016 (Jobin, Ienca, & Vayena, Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines. Nature Machine Intelligence, 2019). Jobin et al., found that top topics of interest included: transparency, justice & fairness, non-maleficence, responsibility, and privacy. Not well represented was sustainability, defined as deploying AI to help protect the environment, improve the planet’s ecosystem, and promote peace. How do we put such ethical aspirations into action in HAI research? Can we develop a mechanism mechanism for HAI by which social scientists/humanists and technical people collaborate from the VERY BEGINNING when setting research priorities and formulating research questions?  Overall: There was excellent discussion. A number of participants were new faculty at Stanford. They express concerns about time spent on interdisciplinary work, but were intrigued and pleased to be invited. Participants raised questions about how cultural and structural approaches can better be integrated into AI research. While there is growing attention to ethics within technology, ethics is very individualized, despite the fact that inequalities and biases can be systematic.
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