Philosophers at  Northeastern University have been awarded two substantial grants for work related to artificial intelligence.

One is a $400,000 grant to Katie Creel and John Basl from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for the project “Cultivating Robust AI and Society Research Capacity and Community”.

This award will support the AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer Graduate Training Program as well as a summer field school that brings together Sloan Foundation Metascience & AI Postdoctoral Fellows, the Computing Research Association’s “Trustworthy AI” Fellows, and participants in the AIDE Summer program to develop interdisciplinary research capacities across epistemological, scientific, social and ethical issues raised by AI.

The other grant, for $1.47 million, is from the US National Science Foundation. It is an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center Grant to launch the Center for Responsible AI and Governance (CRAIG), a multi-institution project that aims to bring together industry partners and academic researchers to identify and solve technical and governance challenges in the space of responsible AI.  John Basl (philosophy) is the PI for the Northeastern University site.