Cornell University Information Science Department

The AI, Policy, and Practice Initiative (AIPP), brings together researchers and scholars from a wide range of disciplines for shared learning and collaboration at Cornell University and Cornell Tech. Housed within Cornell University’s Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, AIPP has four primary pillars of work. First, it builds a cross-disciplinary community that generates productive collaborations across multiple perspectives and forms of expertise. Second, it conducts research in order to examine the social impacts of AI and other data-intensive technologies. Third, it prioritizes intergenerational mentorship and pedagogy in order to build up the next generation of technology researchers. Finally, AIPP works to translate its work into practice in order to ensure that technology policymaking, as well as public conversations about technology, are informed by research and grounded in both social and technical understanding of data-intensive technologies and their potential impacts. The award provides flexible support to AIPP.

Housed within the College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University, the Initiative on AI, Policy and Practice seeks to: 1) conduct fundamental interdisciplinary research concerning the social and ethical dimensions of current and near-term applications of artificial intelligence (AI), drawing from expertise in technical, sociological, philosophical, and legal dimensions of computing; 2) nurture a vibrant and inclusive field of public interest research on AI that can sustain this work far into the future; and, 3) provide an intellectual foundation for well-grounded AI policy, practice and advocacy. The award provides flexible support to the initiative.

Cornell University’s initiative on AI in the Social Interest (the Initiative) undertakes foundational, interdisciplinary research on the social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in order to inform policy and practice, focusing on the potential for AI to advance—but also to imperil—core liberal values like fairness, equality, dignity, and privacy. Its core programing includes the production of academic research and public-facing policy documents such as white papers as well as workshops that seek to help ensure AI is developed and deployed in socially beneficial ways. The award provides flexible support to the Initiative.