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Responsible AI User
Use AI productively while protecting privacy, checking outputs, and preserving human accountability.
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AI at Work
Evaluate workplace use cases, run safe pilots, measure value, and communicate changes responsibly.
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AI Policy & Society
Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Building with AI Systems
Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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AI in Building Energy Management
AI continuously tunes a building's heating, cooling, lighting, and ventilation to cut energy use and cost while keeping occupants comfortable.
ApplicationsAI in Carbon Capture Optimization
AI helps capture CO2 more cheaply and reliably by discovering better capture materials and tuning capture plants in real time.
CompaniesPoolside AI Code Generation
Poolside is a well-funded AI startup building foundation models specialized purely for software development.
CompaniesCodeium and Windsurf
Codeium began as a free AI code-completion tool and evolved into Windsurf, an AI-native code editor with an autonomous agent.
CompaniesTabnine Code Completion
Tabnine is one of the earliest AI code-completion tools, now positioned as the privacy-first, enterprise-focused assistant.
ApplicationsAI in Grant Writing and Proposal Drafting
AI tools help nonprofits find funding opportunities and draft proposals faster by generating, tailoring, and polishing grant narratives.
ApplicationsAI in Accessibility for the Visually Impaired
AI describes the visual world out loud—reading text, identifying objects, and narrating scenes for people who are blind or have low vision.
ApplicationsAI in Real-Time Captioning for the Deaf
AI converts live speech into on-screen text within a second, giving deaf and hard-of-hearing people instant access to conversations, lectures, and meetings.
TechnicalInfluence Functions for Training Data Attribution
Influence functions estimate how much each training example shaped a model's prediction, letting you trace an output back to the data that caused it.
SocietyMembership Inference Attacks
A membership inference attack tries to determine whether a specific person's data was used to train a model, just by probing the model.
SocietyData Poisoning and Backdoor Attacks
Data poisoning corrupts a model by tampering with its training data, and backdoor attacks hide a secret trigger that makes the model misbehave on command.
ApplicationsAI in Restaurant and Menu Recommendation
AI suggests where to eat and what to order by learning your tastes and matching them to dishes, reviews, and dietary needs.
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