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AI’s Impact on Black Americans
A new white paper for the Congressional Black Caucus addresses risks and opportunities of AI for Black communities.
Pathways to Governing AI Technologies in Healthcare
Leading policymakers, academics, healthcare providers, AI developers, and patient advocates discuss the path forward for...
How Can We Better Regulate Health AI?
HAI Associate Director Curt Langlotz explains the current state of health regulation and where we need to move to...
Exploring the Complex Ethical Challenges of Data Annotation
A cross-disciplinary group of Stanford students examines the ethical challenges faced by data workers and the companies...
TextGrad: AutoGrad for Text
Scholars develop a new framework that optimizes compound AI systems by backpropagating large language model feedback.
Digital Advertisers Often Fund Misinformation Unwittingly
The bulk purchase of digital ads through automated placement platforms often matches legitimate ad buyers with websites...
AI can Outperform Humans in Writing Medical Summaries
A new study adapts large language models to summarize clinical documents, showing a promising path for AI to improve...
Digital Economy Lab Fellow Alex “Sandy” Pentland: Building a Better, Safer Digital Ecosystem
The MIT professor describes practical approaches to improving the internet.
How Bias Hides in ‘Kitchen Sink’ Approaches to Data
In risk modeling, AI researchers take a more-is-better approach to training data, but a new study argues that a less-is...
Humans Use Counterfactuals to Reason About Causality. Can AI?
Stanford scholar Tobias Gerstenberg explores how humans judge causation and poses the question: What will happen when AI...
AI on Trial: Legal Models Hallucinate in 1 out of 6 (or More) Benchmarking Queries
A new study reveals the need for benchmarking and public evaluations of AI tools in law.
Stanford AI Projects Greenlighted in National AI Research Resource Pilot
Robotics and hospital computer vision projects receive NSF grants as part of an innovative pilot program to democratize...