Funder: Stanford University
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Proposal deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $75,000 for 12 months; approximately 25 grants expected
Summary: Supports novel, ambitious, and speculative human-centered AI research that generates initial results and broadly shared benefits.
Key Information: Limited to Stanford affiliates, with Stanford faculty PIs and Co-Is who meet university PI eligibility requirements.
Description
Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) supports early-stage ideas in AI and data science aimed at generating initial research results. 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.
Priority domains include AI and data science for discovery, education and learning, AI’s societal impact, and its spiritual dimensions. HAI favors high-impact projects that develop technologies inspired by human intelligence, augment human capabilities rather than replace people, or understand and guide AI’s global societal impact for the greater good. Interdisciplinary collaborations and projects whose initial results can catalyze further internal or external support are encouraged.
