- Motivations: Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology driving innovations, enabling new discoveries, and spurring economic growth, and is impacting everything from routine daily tasks and services, to addressing societal-level grand challenges. AI can also have negative social, environmental, and even economic consequences. To realize the positive and transformative potential of AI, it is imperative to advance AI and its applications responsibly, i.e., in a way that achieves societal good while also protecting privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties, and promotes principles of fairness, accountability, and transparency.
- Vision: A reality where AI is responsibly leveraged to address critical local, regional, and global challenges and benefit humanity.
- Mission: Realize a transdisciplinary ecosystem that catalyzes and nurtures responsible innovation, translation, and application of AI towards address scientific and society grand challenges.
- Goal: Catalyze transdisciplinary excellence in responsible AI at the University of Utah that brings together the use-inspired/applied AI research and technological expertise, advanced cyberinfrastructure, and translational workforce needed to position the University of Utah as a regional and national leader.
Approach
- Bridge traditional research boundaries across the University to catalyze and sustain large, multidisciplinary research collaborations, with an awareness of socio-technical dimensions and societal implications.
- Complement existing research and educational structures and infrastructure and focus on catalyzing novel transdisciplinary and convergent research thinking and training.
- Build on existing strengths and structures and align with university, state, regional, national, and global priorities while emphasizing overarching regionally important thematic drivers, providing opportunities for first-mover advantage, and differentiating the U from peer and aspirational institutions.