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Dietrich Faculty Among Leaders of NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making
Howard University, Penn State University, Texas A&M University, the University of Washington, the MITRE Corporation, Navajo Technical University and
The AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (AI-SDM) brings together AI and social sciences researchers to develop human-centric AI for societal good that harnesses the power of data and improved understanding of human decisions to create better and more trusted choices. The institute will improve the response to societal challenges such as disaster management and public health by creating human-centric AI tools to assist with critical decisions. It will also develop interdisciplinary training to bolster effective and rapid response in uncertain and dynamic situations. Faculty in Dietrich College will join colleagues at CMU’s School of Computer Science, as well as Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital,
Winchester Thurston School on AI-SDM. “Our work at the AI-SDM will contribute the
foundational research required to accurately predict human choices under conditions of uncertainty, time constraints and temporal dynamics,” said Cleotilde Gonzalez, research professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and co-director of the institute. “We will construct the future of experimental and computational cognitive decision science, promoting equity and fairness through human-AI complementarity.”
Dietrich College Faculty Among AI-SDM Leadership
Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor, Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning departments
Cleotilde Gonzalez, research professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and co-director of the institute
Kun Zhang, associate professor. Department of Philosophy
Peter Spirtes, the Marianna Brown Dietrich Professor and head of the Department of Philosophy
Rebecca Nugent, the Fienberg Professor of Statistics & Data Science and head of the Department of Statistics & Data Science
Gretchen Chapman, professor and head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences
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