Following a University report on AI, Brown leaders discuss aligning AI policy with academic excellence, safeguarding academic integrity, supporting faculty and students, and preserving critical thinking in the age of AI.

This year, Brown’s Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign (CNTR) partnered with the Watson School to co-sponsor its AI Policy Summer School. The program brought together graduate students from various universities across the United States to learn from leading AI policy experts and to meet with members of Congress and officials from executive agencies to discuss AI policy priorities.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to help to make new scientific discoveries, but only if people remember that the technology is composed of purely human insight and innovation, the celebrated futurist said.

No stranger to controversy, AI pioneer Yann LeCun told a capacity crowd that large language models are not the future of AI and that a new approach is needed if machines are to achieve human-like intelligence.

Littman is working with colleagues to develop guidance for using AI in the classroom, looking for new opportunities in AI-enabled research and identifying how AI might help the University run even more effectively.