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Stanford HAI Launches AI and Organizations Lab to Study Science of AI in the Workplace
3+ hour, 8+ min ago (273+ words) The new center will examine AI's real-world impacts on jobs, teams, and organizational performance. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) today announced the launch of the AI and Organizations Lab, a new research center that will establish an empirical…...
Researchers Worldwide Compete to Shape the Future of AI in Organizations
7+ hour, 18+ min ago (750+ words) More than 200 academic teams submitted proposals to the AI for Organizations Grand Challenge, exploring how artificial intelligence will transform teamwork and collaboration. As AI tools become commonplace in the workplace, the way teams form and collaborate will evolve. Organizational models…...
Why Stanford Is Restructuring For AI's Next Era
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1234+ words) As artificial intelligence transforms society, Stanford HAI's James Landay, Fei-Fei Li, and John Hennessy explain why they're merging HAI with the Stanford Data Science initiative, mobilizing "team science at scale," and betting that academic openness will shape AI's future. James…...
Stanford Merges AI and Data Science Efforts Under Single Institute
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1077+ words) The combined institute will retain the Stanford HAI name and be helmed by computer scientist James Landay. Co-founder Fei-Fei Li takes on a new university-wide role as Special Advisor on AI and joins John Hennessy as co-chair of the advisory…...
Collaborative Coding, Better Scaling, Health Tracking: HAI Awards $2. 17 M to Innovative Research
1+ week, 6+ day ago (211+ words) Seed grants will fund 29 research teams pursuing novel research ideas across disciplines. In the eighth year of the Stanford HAI Seed Research Grant program, 272 teams competed for funding to support ambitious AI projects across diverse fields ranging from science and…...
Inside the AI Index: 12 Takeaways from the 2026 Report
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (357+ words) The annual report reveals a field hitting breakthrough capabilities while raising urgent questions about environmental costs, transparency, and who benefits from the technology. Stanford computer scientist James Zou is exploring how AI can accelerate scientific research and peer review. His…...
Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both?
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (376+ words) This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them. Foundation models pose unprecedented and largely unaddressed privacy risks that are broader and harder to address than those posed by…...
AI's Growing Role as Scientific Peer Reviewer
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (460+ words) Stanford computer scientist James Zou is exploring how AI can accelerate scientific research and peer review. His finding: AI excels at spotting gaps, but judgment calls still need humans. James Zou is a computer scientist at Stanford University who has…...
A New Economic World Order May Be Based on Sovereign AI and Midsized Nation Alliances
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (279+ words) As trust in the old order erodes, mid-sized countries are building new agreements involving shared digital infrastructure and localized AI. At the end of World War II America'was the clear economic and military superpower and it imposed the idea of…...
AI Can't Do Physics Well " And That's a Roadblock to Autonomy
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (788+ words) Quanti Phy is a new benchmark and training framework that evaluates whether AI can numerically reason about physical properties in video images. Quanti Phy reveals that today's models struggle with basic estimates of size, speed, and distance but offers a…...