Funder: Stanford University
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Proposal deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 for 12 months; approximately 25 awards expected
Summary: Supports novel, ambitious, and speculative human-centered AI research that generates initial results and can catalyze further support.
Key Information: PIs and Co-Is must be Stanford faculty members eligible under Stanford’s PI policy.
Description
Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) supports early-stage ideas that promote human-centered uses of AI and data science, employ human-centered design methods, and share benefits broadly across humanity. The program welcomes humanistic, social scientific, natural scientific, biomedical, and engineering approaches. Supported work can range from discrete studies and research for books to speaker series, system building, and evaluation.
The program emphasizes AI and data science for discovery, transforming education and learning, understanding and shaping AI’s societal impact, and the spiritual dimensions of AI. It encourages collaborations spanning two or more disciplines and proposals showing how initial results could attract further internal or external support. Priority goes to high-impact work inspired by human intelligence, technologies that augment rather than replace people, and research guiding AI’s global societal impact toward the greater good.
