Back
About | Stanford HAI
webCredibility Rating
4/5
High(4)High quality. Established institution or organization with editorial oversight and accountability.
Rating inherited from publication venue: Stanford HAI
Stanford HAI is a major academic institution influencing AI policy and research; its homepage provides context on its mission but limited technical depth relevant to core AI safety work.
Metadata
Importance: 42/100homepage
Summary
This is the 'About' page for Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) institute, which describes its mission to advance AI research, education, and policy with a focus on human benefit and societal impact. HAI brings together interdisciplinary researchers to study AI's implications across technical, ethical, and governance dimensions. It serves as a hub for AI safety-adjacent research, policy engagement, and education.
Key Points
- •Stanford HAI is an interdisciplinary institute focused on developing AI that is safe, human-centered, and beneficial to society.
- •The institute spans research, education, and policy, bringing together faculty across computer science, social sciences, medicine, and law.
- •HAI engages with governance and policy issues around AI, advising policymakers and producing influential reports like the AI Index.
- •The institute emphasizes responsible AI development, including fairness, accountability, and transparency alongside technical capability.
- •Stanford HAI is one of the most prominent academic institutions shaping mainstream AI safety and governance discourse.
5 FactBase facts citing this source
Cached Content Preview
HTTP 200Fetched Apr 6, 202610 KB
About | Stanford HAI Skip to content
Drew Kelly About
Advancing AI research, education, and policy to improve the human condition
Navigate
About
Events
Careers
Search
Participate
Get Involved
Support HAI
Contact Us
Stay Up To Date
Get the latest news, advances in research, policy work, and education program updates from HAI in your inbox weekly.
Sign Up For Latest News
Leadership
The Stanford HAI leadership share a vision of artificial intelligence serving the collective needs of humanity. It is this goal that guides the work of HAI.
Fei-Fei Li Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University John Etchemendy Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Stanford Provost Emeritus | Patrick Suppes Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University James Landay Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University Russell Wald Executive Director As creators of this new technology, it is our collective responsibility to guide AI so that it has a positive impact on our planet, our nations, our communities, our families and our lives. — John Etchemendy
HAI Denning Co-Director
Major Milestones
Skip Carousel Content 2019:
HAI officially launches; our leaders propose a national AI research resource (NAIRR) to drive American innovation in AI, and we launch a fellowship program for faculty.
2020:
We launch the Stanford Digital Economy Lab with economist Erik Brynjoffson, issue our first Hoffman Yee Grants for asteroid shot ideas in AI, and partner with Stanford CS and the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society to launch Stanford's Embedded EthiCS program.
2021:
We pilot the first Ethics & Society Review for awarding grants, launch the Center for Research on Foundation Models with Percy Liang at the helm, and create a new graduate fellowship program for Stanford students.
2022:
We launch our policy boot camp to education regulators, debut our new student affinity groups, and create a new Industrial Affiliate Program to work with industry on human-centered AI.
Christine Baker 2023:
We partner with Wu Tsai Center to fund research in AI and neuroscience, develop our Tech Ethics & Policy fellowships, launch the RAISE-Health initiative with Stanford Medicine, create an AI training series for federal employees, and team with the Asia Foundation for an education program in Asia. HAI leaders Fei-Fei Li and Rob Reich also meet with Pres. Biden to discuss American innovation in AI.
In Our Own Words
Learn about the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and our mission through the voices of our leaders.
2025 Annual Report
The 2024-25 year marked a significant period of growth as we continued to advance the mission of human-centered AI. Government leaders, industry executives, educators, and civil society organizations have come to HAI
... (truncated, 10 KB total)Resource ID:
kb-172063aa0339d156