"If the model appears to 'care' about a particular cue, can that cue be manipulated in a real fly and the predicted shift observed?"

Our new AI Civics initiative treats AI not as a tool to be mastered, but as a domain of civic life where people have rights, responsibilities, and avenues for collective action.

Researcher Anuli Akanegbu's visit to a cybersecurity training program underscored the importance of developing culturally resonant training, and the gaps between what training participants need and what training programs offer.

Online activity can lead to violence, including genocide. As Nuredin Ali writes, effective content moderation can help.

The AI industry is seizing on Pittsburgh's industrial history, so central to the region’s identity, to sell its future as a “global leader in artificial intelligence.” Yet telling the city's story as one of seamless progress fl...

Over the past twelve months, our research and policy work both anticipated and responded to the most headline-grabbing issues, helping to cut through the noise and make sense of this moment.

Ranjit Singh considers the stakes of AI sovereignty, the tension between default settings and local autonomy, and who gets to decide what happens inside the systems that people come to depend on.    

Tamara Kneese and Cecilia Marrinan consider how California’s longstanding ties to the tech industry — and a history of environmental harm — connect to the threats the industry poses to the state today.

Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese examine Virginia’s Data Center Alley, and explain why their research looks at not only individual sites but “how the politics, economics, and  cultural factors of a place" inform effective orga...

Researchers Livia Garofalo and Briana Vecchione reflect on what studying AI chatbots reveals about emotional attachment to machines, the power of illusion, and the norms and expectations that define care itself.