Announcements

Professor Ho honored for his contributions to AI and Law, and for helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this role, Ho will advise on national AI policy, from competitiveness to workforce implications and societal impacts.

Programs will help industry leaders understand cutting-edge AI technologies and their impact on business, governance, and society.

The 2021 grantees focus on bias, diversity, health care, and cognitive science.

The second round of funding will sponsor teams that leverage AI to focus on real-world problems in health care, education, and society.

Athey, the Economics of Technology Professor at the Graduate School of Business, is known for her leading work into the economic impacts of the digital age. In serving as the AEA president — one of the profession’s highest honors — Athey becomes the eighth Stanford economist to lead the 136 year-old association with roughly 23,000 members.

The report, part of the AI100 project hosted by Stanford HAI, concludes that AI has made a major leap from the lab to people’s lives in recent years, which increases the urgency to understand its potential negative effects. 

The Administrative Conference of the United States is an independent federal agency dedicated to improving the administrative process through consensus-driven applied research and providing nonpartisan expert advice and recommendations for federal agency procedures.

In this pilot program, graduate students will work across disciplines on projects advancing a human-centered approach to the science of AI and its societal impacts.

This new center at Stanford convenes scholars from across the university to study the technical principles and societal impact of foundation models.

The initiative will fund two new research projects with the goal of recruiting new faculty, bridging sustainability research across campus, and attracting high-caliber students. 

The OSTP and the National Science Foundation have announced the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force which will write the road map for expanding access to critical resources and educational tools that will spur AI innovation and economic prosperity nationwide. Fei-Fei Li is one of the 12 Task Force members.