Research
TRAILS
The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society
The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) is the first organization to integrate artificial intelligence participation, technology, and governance during the design, development, deployment, and oversight of AI systems. We investigate what trust in AI looks like, how to create technical AI solutions that build trust, and which policy models are effective in sustaining trust.
The new institute is expected to transform AI practice by encouraging innovations that foreground ethics, human rights, and input and feedback from communities whose voices have previously been marginalized. In collaboration with government agencies and private sector leaders, the NSF has now invested close to half a billion dollars in the AI institutes ecosystem—an investment that expands a collaborative AI research network into almost every U.S. state.
TRAILS AT GWU
GWU Co-Leads New $20 million NSF AI Institute
The George Washington University is co-leading a multi-institutional effort supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will develop new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies designed to promote trust and mitigate risks while simultaneously empowering and educating the public. The NSF Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) unites AI and machine learning specialists with systems engineers, social scientists, legal scholars, educators, and public policy experts. The multidisciplinary team will work with impacted communities, private industry, and the federal government to determine how to evaluate trust in AI, how to develop technical solutions and processes for AI that can be trusted, and which policy models best create and sustain trust. The new institute is expected to transform AI practice by encouraging innovations that foreground ethics, human rights, and input and feedback from communities whose voices have previously been marginalized. In collaboration with government agencies and private sector leaders, the NSF has now invested close to half a billion dollars in the AI institutes ecosystem—an investment that expands a collaborative AI research network into almost every U.S. state.
$20
Million Dollar NSF AI Institute
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close to
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Half a billion dollars in the AI institutes ecosystem
GW TRAILS FACULTY
GW Faculty
David Broniatowski, an associate professor of engineering management and systems engineering at GW, is the lead principal investigator of TRAILS at GW.
Susan Aaronson, a research professor and director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at GW, is co-principal investigator of TRAILS at GW.
Meet The Team
Prof. David Broniatowski
co-PI And GW Site Lead
Associate Professor, Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Prof. Susan Aaronson
co-PI
Research Professor; Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub