The Interdisciplinary Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence and Human Values aims to equip students with the intellectual tools needed to understand and critically evaluate the rapidly expanding role of AI today. This will enable students to play an active role in shaping how AI is understood, developed, and used going forward. The program operates with a human-centered focus devoted to elevating human excellence rather than replacing it.
To achieve this mission, the program has two interrelated educational goals. First, it aims to give students a working understanding of how AI systems function—we regard this as essential to informed discussions of AI. Second, it aims to give students an understanding of how AI models interact with various domains that human beings care about—in other words, human values.
The AI and Human Values program is intentionally designed as an Interdisciplinary Emphasis so as to be easily combinable with a wide range of majors and minors and to provide students with the flexibility needed to chart their own path through the program according to their interests and goals. For example, the program can be combined with a computer science major to learn how to develop AI systems, with a politics and government major to focus on AI policy, with a business major to work on AI strategy, with a philosophy major for a specialty in AI ethics, and more. Students’ work in the program can support a wide range of careers in healthcare, business, law, government, art, education.
