Building Trust in AI: Three DC-Area Universities Involved in New Effort

The University of Maryland, Morgan State University and George Washington University are involved in a $140 million research and development project involving artificial intelligence systems.

The idea behind the National Science Foundation’s Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society, or TRAILS, is to broaden who develops AI, study how people use technology in their everyday lives, and increase public trust in those systems.

“AI is a big part of our everyday lives,” said Virginia Byrne, assistant professor in the Higher Education Student Affairs Program at Morgan State University. “AI backs all of those great social media apps we love to scroll through.”

Byrne said that, as the tech becomes increasingly sophisticated and employed in programs people use every day, broadening who develops it and increasing the understanding of how it can be used is more important than ever.

She’ll be working with students, teachers and teachers who are in “pre-service,” those heading into the field of education, on the TRAILS project.

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