Center for Socially Responsible AI awards seed funding to seven diverse projects

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Funding Announcement: The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CSRAI) awarded more than $152,000 to seven interdisciplinary research projects from six colleges.
Evaluation Process: Proposals were assessed on connection to CSRAI’s mission, intellectual merit, and potential for external funding through a blind peer review process.
Focus on Human-Centered AI: All winning projects highlight human-centered AI, emphasizing their social implications, societal responsiveness, and potential for social good.
Diverse Collaborations: The awarded proposals involve multidisciplinary collaborations from various fields such as science, engineering, information science, and health.
Project Examples:
- AI for urban disaster resilience, leveraging behavioral science in emergency planning.
- Study on trans crowdfunding under surveillance for safer relocation strategies.
- Cross-disciplinary conference on advancing empathy in AI.
- AI approach to enhance public transportation services with community input.
- AI to improve parent-focused psychotherapy through feedback systems.
- Enhancements in language learning aids for non-speaking children.
- AI tools for transparent and reproducible annotation of public officials’ communication data.
Project Duration: The selected projects are expected to begin in spring 2026 and span one to two years, paving the way for potential external funding acquisition.

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