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TRAILS Summer Fellows Develop Technology to Enhance Reliability in AI Responses for Blind Users
The five undergraduates spent 10 weeks this summer at UMD working with the blind and low-vision community to develop a mobile app that adds verification layers to AI responses to make them more reliable and trustworthy.
Designing Smart Robotic Pets to Aid Autistic Youth
UMD's Hernisa Kacorri and GW's Chung Hyuk Park and Zoe Szajnfarber are studying how families can use AI robotic pets to support autistic children.
TRAILS Announces First Round of Seed Funding
The eight funded projects, totaling just over $1.5 million, will advance cutting-edge research and scholarship that spans AI design, development and governance.
Grand Challenges Grant Launches Values-Centered AI Initiative
Hal Daumé, Katie Shilton, Hernisa Kacorri, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Furong Huang and Huaishu Peng are members of UMD’s new Center for Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence, which is focused on developing conceptual and technical frameworks to advance AI in a way that is not only ethical, but also places the well-being of people at the forefront.