Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good  - Humanity AI

Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good Pooled philanthropic fund […]

TechAccess: AI-Ready America

NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

AI Is Changing Who Wins Research Grants

A new study from the Northwestern Innovation Institute finds that proposals showing stronger signs of AI-assisted writing were more likely to receive support from the National Institutes of Health, while also tending to align more closely with ideas that had already been funded.

National Data Platform Receives NSF Category I Award to Expand AI-Ready Data Infrastructure for U.S.

UC San Diego researchers will lead a collaborative project to expand a national platform connecting data, computing and AI resources to empower nationwide researchers and educators.

NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative

A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.

New Studies: How Commercial Forces Make Science Less Reliable

Computational social science has been distorted by commercial forces, and AI is making it worse.

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools

A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science research—to put “AI literacy” in schools.

National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry (NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY)

NSF Financial Assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements) made on or after October 1, 2024, will be subject to the applicable set of award conditions, dated October 1, 2024, available on the NSF website. These terms and conditions are consistent with the revised guidance specified in the OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance published in the Federal Register on April 22, 2024.

NSF and NVIDIA award Ai2 a combined $152M to support building a national level fully open AI ecosystem | Ai2

Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?

No. No it can't. Come on, now.

The Ed. Dept. Wants to Steer Grant Money to AI. What That Means for Schools

The Education Department is proposing to make advancing AI in education one of its grantmaking priorities.

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Next Frontier AI is run by SPRIND – the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Think of SPRIND as a state-backed deep-tech fund and company builder: we deploy public money with a venture mindset, take real technical risk and are explicitly mandated to try things that can fail.

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Next Frontier AI is run by SPRIND – the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation. Think of SPRIND as a state-backed deep-tech fund and company builder: we deploy public money with a venture mindset, take real technical risk and are explicitly mandated to try things that can fail.

More Versus Better: Artificial Intelligence, Incentives, and the Emerging Crisis in Peer Review | Organization Science

As the AI Task Force for Organization Science, we provide an early account of artificial intelligence’s (AI) impact on both submissions and reviews at a major academic journal. Submission volume ha...

"AI" is Automated Inequality

Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called "AI" with false claims. Even most "AI"-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always only a subset of) claims, leaving vast areas of the economic consequences of "AI" unexplored. (Even the "AI"-evangelist Economi

Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X

Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024