The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a non-profit research institute founded in 2014 with the mission of conducting high-impact AI research and engineering in service of the common good. Headquartered in Seattle, AI2 employs diverse scientific and engineering talent to tackle complex challenges in AI. The institute has undertaken ambitious projects to drive fundamental advances in science, medicine, and conservation through AI.

Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

Our mission is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering.

AI2 CEO Ali Farhadi joined leaders in D.C. to weigh in at The Seventh Bipartisan Senate Forum On Artificial Intelligence. Read his full statement to Senator Chuck Schumer,  Senator Martin Heinrich, Senator Mike Rounds, and Senator Todd Young below.

AI2 Senior UX Designer Jenna James hasn't had a linear career path. She's found inspiration from her personal life and is passionate about making a positive impact. Learn more about her career in December's Featured AI2er.
#CareerPath #UXDesigner

Lots of the AI2 team are in Singapore this week for #EMNLP2023! Here's a selection of highlighted works we're proud to have featured at the conference.

Understanding others’ beliefs plays a significant role in our daily social interactions. But can LLMs achieve this same Theory of Mind? In a paper by AI2's Hyunwoo Kim, a new benchmark is introduced that offers answers.
#emnlp2023

"In the quest to align machines with human values, a first challenge is deciding whose values we mean. There are, of course, some commonalities across all people—every culture, for instance, sees keeping promises as a good thing." AI2's work on Delphi is the jumping off point for this excellent conversation about AI and morality, via The New Yorker.
#AI #Morality

Our CEO Ali Farhadi spoke to senators yesterday at the AI Insight Forum: "Grateful to participate in the AI Insight Forum focused on transparency, explainability, copyright, & IP. Thank you to Leader Schumer, Senator Martin Heinrich, Senator Rounds, and Senator Young for the opportunity to join and for continuing to lead on informed AI policy."

#AIPolicy

Who knew water-cooler chitchat could be so useful? AI2's Hyunwoo Kim and collaborators did, which is why they're introducing SODA, the first million-scale high-quality social chitchat dataset. Learn about it on the blog!  #EMNLP2023

Exciting news from Semantic Scholar! Introducing SPECTER2, the adaptable upgrade to SPECTER. Learn about its advanced features and SciRepEval, the new benchmark for scientific document embeddings. Check it out below. #EMNLP2023

With fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remaining, innovative solutions are needed to protect these majestic species.

Thanks to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's $1.4M grant, we're expanding our partnership with NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration to advance tech to help reduce their threats.

#AI #EnvironmentalAI

AI2 senior director Yejin Choi was invited to speak with Bill Gates about AI, and shared her delight in the unknown. "One of the things I’m really excited about is our lack of understanding about both artificial intelligence, and human intelligence." 

#AI #UnconfuseMe

ORG:ALLENAI

Allen Institute for AI (AI2)