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AI for Organizations Grand Challenge

Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind invited computer and management science researchers worldwide to submit paradigm-shaping research that will influence the future of collaboration within organizations.

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Overview

AI is transforming how we work, make decisions, and collaborate. Legacy paradigms are colliding with new technologies. But while our tools are evolving fast, our organizational models are overdue for reinvention.

Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind issued a  global challenge in 2025. We invited the world’s brightest academic minds to imagine how AI can unlock new forms of leadership, coordination, and collective intelligence. 

More than 200 teams of faculty and PhD students from 156 universities responded. The winning team received $100,000 and the chance to implement a study in Google DeepMind’s offices.

Read about the winning team and finalists

Inspired by the diverse array of submissions and frontier AI research from Google DeepMind, this research primer provides a panoramic view of the work happening at the intersection of computer and management science.

Download Organizing Intelligence

Meet The Team

Google DeepMind
Simon Bouton
Chief Experience Officer, Google DeepMind
Martin Gonzalez
Head of Organizational AI Research, Google DeepMind
Steve Perry
Portfolio Lead of AGI Dawn, Google DeepMind
William Stanger
Strategy & Special Projects to GDM's Chief Experience Officer, Google DeepMind
Stanford HAI
Melissa Valentine
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Co-Director of Science of Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO), Stanford
Michael S. Bernstein
Associate Professor of Computer Science | Senior Fellow, HAI | STMicroelectronics Faculty Scholar, Stanford University
Ahmad Rushdi
Senior Manager of Research Collaborations, Stanford HAI | Stanford University

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Winner


Learning the Grammar of Coordination with Generative Transformers

Yankai Wang
PhD Student, Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
Amir Goldberg
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University

Finalists

Judges

We are deeply grateful to the industry experts and academic scholars who lent their time and expertise to our judging panel:

  • Andy Song, Sr. Director Frontier AI Global Affairs, Google DeepMind

  • Anita McGahan, University of Toronto, Strategy

  • Chris Watkins, Org AI Solutions Lead, Google DeepMind

  • James Evans, University of Chicago, Sociology & Data Science

  • Lorrayne Bennett, Sr. Director of Org Engineering & Innovation, Google DeepMind

  • Nik Stewart, Sr. Technical Program Manager, Google DeepMind

  • Rebecca Karp, Harvard Business School, Strategy

  • Robert Sutton, Stanford, Management Science & Engineering

  • Sameer Srivastava, UC Berkeley, Business Administration and Public Policy

  • Samuel Albanie, Staff Research Scientist, Frontier Safety, Google DeepMind

  • Simon Bouton, Chief Experience Officer, Google DeepMind

  • Tristan Botelho, Yale School of Management, Org Behavior

Hancheng Cao
Assistant Professor, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Ruihao Zhu
Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
Hong Shen
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Qing Xiao
PhD Student, Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), School of Computer Science (SCS), Carnegie Mellon University
Anita Woolley
Professor of Organizational Behavior, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Allen Brown
Ph.D. Student, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Sameer Srivastava
Professor, Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Mathijs De Vaan
Associate Professor, Management of Organizations, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Lee
Assistant Professor, Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Brian Uzzi
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Matt Groh
Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
Evey Huang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)