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Radical Proposal: Middleware Could Give Consumers Choices Over What They See Online
To lessen internet platforms’ power over democratic political debate, a group of Stanford researchers are advocating for...
Radical Proposal: Universal Basic Income to Offset Job Losses Due to Automation
Andrew Yang proposes giving every American adult $1,000 a month to avert an economic crisis.
Radical Proposal: Data Cooperatives Could Give Us More Power Over Our Data
To address the power imbalance between data producers and corporations that profit from our data, scholars propose...
Radical Proposal: Third-Party Auditor Access for AI Accountability
A scholar proposes legal protections and regulatory involvement to support organizations that uncover algorithmic harm. ...
Reflections on Foundation Models
After launching the Center for Research on Foundation Models, we discuss why these models are so important and reflect...
Stanford Researchers Build $400 Self-Navigating Smart Cane
The cane, incorporating sensing and way-finding approaches from robotics and self-driving vehicles, could reshape life...
Peter Norvig: Today’s Most Pressing Questions in AI Are Human-Centered
The AI expert, who joins Stanford HAI as a Distinguished Education Fellow, discusses building inclusive education and...
How Bodies Get Smarts: Simulating the Evolution of Embodied Intelligence
An in silico playground for creatures that learn, mutate, and evolve establishes the importance of morphological...
Stanford Team Develops a Blueprint for a National AI Research Resource
Scholars and students across disciplines outline how to build a resource to level computing and data barriers for...
Student Perspective: Designing a National AI Research Resource
JD/MBA student Chris Wan helped lead a Stanford Law School/HAI practicum that paired his passions in public policy and...
Stanford Exoskeleton Research Demonstrates the Importance of Training
New research shows that the benefits people could reap from exoskeletons rely heavily on having time to train with the...
Should Self-driving Cars and Care-bots all Come with Black Box Recorders?
An international team of experts argues that autonomous systems of all kinds should learn from the aviation industry.