Morgan State Researchers to Collaborate in New NSF-Funded Institute for the Study of Trustworthy and Ethical Artificial Intelligence

Researchers from Morgan State University are contributing their expertise to a new multidisciplinary, multi-institutional effort supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies designed to promote trust and mitigate risks, while simultaneously empowering and educating the public. Funded by a $20 million award from NSF, the new Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society (TRAILS) fosters a collaboration between specialists in AI and machine learning with social scientists, legal scholars, educators and public policy experts, to transform AI development by integrating ethics, human rights, and input from marginalized communities.

Morgan’s contribution to the institute’s research will be led by Virginia L. Byrne, Ph.D., assistant professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs from the School of Education and Urban Studies (SEUS) in collaboration with Monireh Dabaghchian, Ph.D., and Naja Mack, Ph.D., assistant professors of Computer Science from the School of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (SCMNS). The team, which will be rounded out by several graduate and undergraduate student research assistants, will focus on community-driven projects related to the interplay between AI and education and how subsets of the community feel about AI systems and its impact on their everyday lives.

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