AI Research

For AI to better serve our needs, it must incorporate more of the versatility, nuance, and depth of the human intellect. The development of AI should be paired with an ongoing study of its impact on human society, and guided accordingly. The ultimate purpose of AI should be to enhance our humanity, not diminish or replace it. Realizing these goals will be among the greatest challenges of our time. Each presents complex technical challenges and will provoke dialogues among engineers, social scientists, and humanists. But this raises some important questions: What are the most pressing problems, who will solve these problems, and where will these dialogues take place? Human-Centered AI requires a broad, multidisciplinary effort that taps the expertise of an extraordinary range of disciplines, from neuroscience to ethics. Meeting this challenge will require us to take chances exploring uncertain new terrain with no promise of a commercial product. It is far more than an engineering task.