UW professors on the 'grand challenge' of building transparent, beneficial AI
lazowska · x · 2026-09-17
University of Washington Allen School professors Katharina Reinecke (AI ethics/HCI) and Noah A. Smith (ML/NLP, Ai2) discuss the school's grassroots 'grand challenges' initiative, starting with AI: how to design AI that is transparent and equally beneficial to all. Smith argues openness and transparency are prerequisites for understanding these systems, their embedded assumptions, and improving future generations of the technology.
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