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George Mason University is driving rapid AI adoption and advancements across the Commonwealth.

As the largest and most diverse university in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., George Mason University is leading the future of inclusive artificial intelligence (AI) and developing responsible models for AI research, education, workforce development, and community engagement within a modern university.

As AI reshapes industries, George Mason combines fearless ideas that harness the technology’s boundless potential to address the world’s grand challenges, while creating guardrails based on informed, transdisciplinary research around ethical governance, regulatory oversight, and social impact.

Led by the university’s inaugural vice president and chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) Amarda Shehu with an AI Visioning Task Force, George Mason is reimagining operational excellence in every facet of the university.

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Johns Hopkins University is Democracy onAir’s most recent Champion of Democracy in the US and globally.  JHU has as many quality educational, research, and service programs helping to support local, state, and federal democracies as any university in the world. These programs will be further enhanced by the new JHU School of Government and Policy that will bring together programs throughout the university to pursue evidence-based solutions to society’s greatest challenges.

Some specifically democracy-enhancing programs include:

• The NSF Agora Institute in the Homewood campus in Baltimore “strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue.”
• Special events like the annual Democracy Day offering students an introduction to the democratic process and the ways they can engage with it and the Democracy and Freedom Festival a series of events aimed at educating citizens about the importance of democracy and its essential role in advancing freedom, justice, and equality for all.

For more information, see the JHU slide show and the experimental Agora Custom Hub.

A Mission Defined by Possibility

At Stanford, our mission of discovery and learning is energized by a spirit of optimism and possibility that dates to our founding. Here you’ll find a place of intellectual expansiveness, wide-ranging perspectives, and freedom to explore new lines of thinking. Buzzing with ideas and innovation, approaching questions with openness and curiosity, pursuing excellence in all we do – this is Stanford.

Who We Are

We’re a leading research university with a heart. Founded in the decade that the U.S. Constitution was signed, we’re the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Today we’re a forward-looking, diverse community devoted to social justice, restless inquiry and respect for each person’s individual needs and talents.

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Imagining the Digital Future (ITDF) Center is an interdisciplinary research center focused on the human impact of accelerating digital change and the socio-technical challenges that lie ahead.

Imagining the Digital Future’s mission is to discover and broadly share a diverse range of opinions, ideas and original research about the likely evolution of digital change, informing important conversations and policy formation.

February 29, 2024, ITDF released its first new research report, “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040,” for which, in two separate studies, a large group of global digital life experts and the U.S. general public were asked to share their opinions on the likely future impact of AI. The global experts predicted that as these tools advance we will have to rethink what it means to be human and we must reinvent or replace major institutions in order to achieve the best possible future. The issues the Americans polled were most concerned about are the further erosion of personal privacy, their opportunities for employment, how these systems might change their relationships with others, and AI applications’ potential impact on basic human rights.

The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) is the first organization to integrate artificial intelligence participation, technology and governance during the design, development, deployment and oversight of AI systems. We investigate what trust in AI looks like, how to create technical AI solutions that build trust, and which policy models are effective in sustaining trust.

TRAILS is a partnership between the University of Maryland, George Washington University, Morgan State University and Cornell University.

Advancing AI research, education, and policy to improve the human condition.

Our vision for the future is led by our commitment to studying, guiding and developing human-centered AI technologies and applications.

The Ronald and Maxine Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) provides a forum for research and debate on topics at the intersection of science and society.

The goal is twofold: To learn and educate about current science policy and its institutional stakeholders, and to shape science policy by building on Caltech’s scientific expertise.

Block Center for Technology and Society

Artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and advanced manufacturing already impact society, the economy, and our daily lives in profound ways. While many of these impacts are beneficial, laborers in some industries are being displaced due to automation, algorithms drive decision-making in powerful and often unseen ways, and new platforms and networks have fundamentally changed how people engage with, and contribute to, their world.

Established in 2019, The Block Center focuses on how emerging technologies will alter the future of work, how AI and analytics can be harnessed responsibly for social good, and how innovation in these spaces can be more inclusive and generate targeted, relevant solutions that reduce inequality and improve quality of life for all.

Georgetown University has two primary programs related to AI Policy:

The AI Policy Lab (AIPL) at the McCourt School of Public Policy was launched in the summer of 2023 to craft concrete, actionable recommendations for Executive Branch officials, Members of Congress and staff. The Labs convene a small, curated group of experts on a rotating set of AI-related topics to drill down into practical policy guidance that have a real path to implementation.

Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy (Tech Institute) is committed to exploring and expanding the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and the law through events, academic offerings, and faculty and staff thought leadership in the field.

On April 9, 2024, the University of Maryland announced the launch of a new institute dedicated to developing the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) education, technology and leaders.

The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) is a collaborative hub for AI, supporting faculty research, offering innovative and experiential learning opportunities, and focusing on responsible and ethical AI technology to advance the public good across industry, government and society.

MIT’s primary AI Policy efforts are centered in the Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing AI Policy Forum and the new Generative AI Impact Consortium.

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