Helping students learn to evaluate AI. Making autonomous drones safer. Measuring how people express trust in AI. Helping local governments navigate AI policy. Understanding how to reestablish trust after AI failures.
Those are among the questions driving five new research projects selected for the fourth round of seed funding from the Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS), a four-university consortium co-led by the University of Maryland and George Washington University. The institute has awarded just over $515,000 to multidisciplinary teams from UMD, GW, Morgan State University and Cornell University. The grants, ranging from $40,000 to $160,000, are designed to launch new collaborations, generate preliminary results and position investigators to compete for larger external funding.
Read more on the TRAILS website.