US university gets $20M to create new AI institute According to a report from
a local news publication, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania received the funding for its
new AI Institute for Societal Decision Making.
The institute
will foster the improvement of AI tools to assist in decision-making procedures
in social circumstances, such as natural disasters and public health events.
Aarti Singh, a professor at the university’s machine learning department,
will serve as the institute’s director.
She said one of the primary goals will be to create
AI that is “human-centric.”
“We need to develop AI technology that works for the people… It’s actually built on data that is vetted, algorithms that are vetted, with feedback from all the stakeholders and participatory design.”
