In the article “New AI Seed Grants Support Trustworthy Tech,” Maryland Today announced the GW co-led NIST-NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society’s (TRAILS) second round of seed funding, which will support five studies addressing the institute’s core values. GW Engineering faculty involved in the projects include Professors Erica Gralla, David Broniatowski, and Zoe Szajnfarber from Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, and Professor Peng Wei from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Here is an excerpt from the article: “The five grants totaling $685,000 will support efforts to improve AI-generated health information, enhance safety and trust in autonomous vehicles, address education disparities driven by race and location, examine AI-generated social media used during a pandemic or natural disaster, and build new frameworks for using chatbots and their underlying technology, known as large language models (LLMs), in academia.”
Read the full article on Maryland Today.