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TRAILS AI Summer Academy Empowers Future AI Innovators
The two-week academy featured mentoring from UMD faculty, a field trip to an interactive museum focused on language, and group projects that covered hot topics like neural networks, machine learning and large language models (LLMs).
TRAILS Researchers Discuss How AI Will Change the Way We Live
UMD’s Hal Daumé, Furong Huang and Katie Shilton were interviewed for a podcast series on how AI will impact education, work, culture and creativity.
Shilton Discusses AI-Powered Phone Scams Targeting Seniors
UMD’s Katie Shilton talks to Public News Service about AI-powered phone scams targeting senior citizens, explaining that a key approach to improve public trust in AI is including stakeholders in the design process.
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
Hal Daumé, Katie Shilton, Hernisa Kacorri, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Furong Huang and Huaishu Peng are members of UMD’s new Center for Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which is focused on developing conceptual and technical frameworks to advance AI in a way that is not only ethical, but also places the well-being of people at the forefront.
Navigating Controversy in Computing Research: A Historical View of Data Ethics Work
UMD’s Katie Shilton discusses how researchers have navigated artificial intelligence controversies like racial bias and privacy.
Navigating Controversy in Computing Research: A Historical View of Data Ethics Work
In a Q&A with the College of Information Studies, UMD’s Katie Shilton talks about her research on ethics and governance in AI.
Social Data Science Major to Debut
Katie Shilton is the co-director of a new social data science major UMD that will equip graduates with the skills needed to appropriately collect, analyze and interpret data about people—an increasingly popular field due, at least in part, to social media.