Cornell University Partners in New $20M NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI

Valerie Reyna, the Lois and Melvin Tukman Professor of Human Development, is leading Cornell’s contribution to a multi-institutional effort supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will develop new artificial intelligence technologies designed to promote trust and mitigate risks, while simultaneously empowering and educating the public.

Funded by a $20 million award from the NSF and led by the University of Maryland (UMD), the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS) unites specialists in AI and machine learning with social scientists, legal scholars, educators and public policy experts.

Reyna, as the principal investigator of the Cornell component, will use her expertise in human judgment and cognition to advance efforts focused on how people interpret their use of AI. She will conduct research at Cornell that builds on her innovative theory of human psychology and decision-making and her prior NSF-funded research on how misinformation on social media shaped decision-making around COVID-19.

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