ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SOCIAL GOOD.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL WORK

Collaborating with communities for a more just, healthy, and sustainable world.

USC CAIS Statement on
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) are highly valued principles at the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAIS) and are critical to our pursuit of academic excellence. In particular we aim to encourage a culture in which every member of CAIS feels valued, supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals, no matter his/her/their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, immigration status, age, disability status, class, economic background, education, color, family structure, background, experience, or beliefs. This includes providing opportunity and access for persons in engineering and social work from historically under-represented or underserved groups. We recognize the need for research centers like CAIS to not only take a stance on critical social issues, but also to actively engage in dialogue and action on these issues.

Director Eric Rice shares his tips for social connectedness

As more and more communities are moving to social distancing and shelter-at-home/safer-at-home orders, it’s important that we maintain our social connections while physically distancing. Watch the video for Dr. Rice’s tips.

Watch here.

Bistra Dilkina Named CAIS Co-Director

“I’m thrilled to be stepping up in my initiative to growing CAIS,” said Dilkina, an associate professor of computer science who joined the USC Viterbi School of Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in spring 2018.

Read full story here.

Allocating Scarce Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic

New project aims to create disciplined, automated, data-driven approaches for coordinating the allocation of scarce resources (healthcare workers, PPE, ventilators).

OUR PRIMARY GOAL

Our primary goal in this center is to share our ideas about how AI can be used to tackle the most difficult societal problems. We believe that this agenda can best be achieved by a genuine partnership between AI and social work.