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Gov. Newsom Taps Universities for State AI Council

Dec 16, 2025 - A 30-member California Innovation Council will include executives and leaders from the UC system, the Brookings Institute, Stanford University and the California Chamber of Commerce, among others.

#AI #California

Gov. Newsom Taps Universities for State AI Council

Trump calls for federal policy framework preempting state AI laws

Dec 12, 2025 - The executive order comes as Big Tech pushes back on local AI regulation while pouring billions into building out AI infrastructure and deploying new products.

#AI #Trump #policy

Trump calls for federal policy framework preempting state AI laws

White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI

Dec 1, 2025 - This new effort is described as a “whole-of-government approach” creating, “a national discovery platform that unites the world’s most powerful supercomputers, AI systems, and emerging quantum technologies with the nation’s most advanced scientific instruments.”

#CRA #AI #policy

White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

Nov 26, 2025 - National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government’s AI platform. But who stands to benefit?

#OpenAI #policy #AI #data #DoE #University of Tennessee Knoxville #Trump #Nvidia #Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent

Nov 11, 2025 - The country is easing migration for young researchers to boost its competitiveness in artificial intelligence, robotics and new materials.

#China #AI #robotics #chemistry #innovation #science #policy

China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent

What California’s landmark AI law means for US tech regulation

Oct 2, 2025 - Safety advocates say it’s a step in the right direction.

#California #policy #AI #Anthropic

What California’s landmark AI law means for US tech regulation

UNC Chapel Hill's lack of a standardized AI policy leaves students and faculty to their own devices

Sep 28, 2025 - In a 2024 survey from the Provost’s AI Committee, 94 percent of undergraduate respondents said that they understood the benefits and detriments AI can pose to learning.

#GAI #AI #policy #UNC Chapel Hill #data

UNC Chapel Hill's lack of a standardized AI policy leaves students and faculty to their own devices

Two Thousand Of America’s Top Scientists Warn Congress: Don’t Gut Research Funding

Aug 30, 2025 - Open letter from 2,100+ National Academy members warns Congress of dire consequences from FY26 science budget cuts; organizers seek response.

#AI #policy #budget

Two Thousand Of America’s Top Scientists Warn Congress: Don’t Gut Research Funding

What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

Jul 29, 2025 - It blends culture-war politics and industry giveaways with at times naïve techno-optimism.

#policy #Trump #AI

What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

Study shows AI's negative effects as Ohio State University requires students to use AI in classrooms

Jul 29, 2025 - Ohio State University did not study the impact artificial intelligence has on learning before launching its new plan.

#Ohio State University #AI #policy #undergrad #EdTech #ChatGPT

Study shows AI's negative effects as Ohio State University requires students to use AI in classrooms

Will Trump's AI Policies Kill Federal Support in Your State?

Jul 29, 2025 - A new plan from President Donald Trump proposes that states with restrictive AI laws should lose federal funding.

#AI #policy #Trump

Will Trump's AI Policies Kill Federal Support in Your State?

Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan

Jul 23, 2025 - The new federal AI Action Plan aims to secure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. Its policies address a range of issues, including worker displacement. Experts have concerns about its impact on state policy.

#policy #AI #Trump

Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan

Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI

Jul 22, 2025 - A new survey from the AAUP shows that a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security.

#AAUP #higher ed #EdTech #GAI #AI #policy #pedagogy #data

Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI

Prestigious NSF graduate fellowship tilts toward AI and quantum

Jun 25, 2025 - Students in the life sciences are shut out of latest cohort of 500 fellows

#NSF #life science #AI #quantum computing

Prestigious NSF graduate fellowship tilts toward AI and quantum

Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says

Jun 10, 2025 - For the first time teachers in England are receiving guidelines on how they should and shouldn't use AI.

#policy #United Kingdom (UK)#EdTech #K12 #AI

Teachers can use AI to save time on marking, new guidance says

China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams

Jun 9, 2025 - New age problems require new age solutions.

#China #higher ed #AI #GAI #policy

China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jun 5, 2025 - Data & Society's statement for the record at a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on the federal government in the age of artificial intelligence.

#AI #policy #Data & Society #advocacy

Statement for the Record: The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

BU | Teaching AI to Personalize: Aldo Pacchiano Introduces a New Method for Adaptive Large Language Models

Jun 2, 2025 - In a new paper titled “Language Model Personalization via Reward Factorization,” Pacchiano and his co-authors introduce Personalization via Reward Factorization (PReF)

#Boston University #AI #ADSA member #LLM

BU | Teaching AI to Personalize: Aldo Pacchiano Introduces a New Method for Adaptive Large Language Models

University Researchers Alarmed by Plan to Slash NSF Funding by 55%

May 21, 2025 - Some researchers say the federal government's proposal will drastically impede cutting-edge work in fields that are critical to the nation's future, such as AI, cybersecurity and power grids.

#NSF #AI #computing #cyber #Trump

University Researchers Alarmed by Plan to Slash NSF Funding by 55%

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

May 2, 2025 - Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

#Trump #higher ed #research #NSF #NIH #EPA #AI #quantum computing #CDC #NASA

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

A CU professor got a grant to teach kids about artificial intelligence. Then the National Science Foundation abruptly killed it

Apr. 29, 2025 - The grant proposal contained the word “misinformation” -- and the professor thinks that’s why the project was killed.

#AI #Trump #University of Colorado Boulder #NSF

A CU professor got a grant to teach kids about artificial intelligence. Then the National Science Foundation abruptly killed it

Trump targets AI, school discipline in new executive orders

Apr. 23, 2025 - In addition to advancing AI in schools, the orders call for a review of discipline guidance based on “discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology.”

#K12 #pedagogy #AI #DEI #Trump

Trump targets AI, school discipline in new executive orders

Georgetown MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

Apr. 17, 2025 - The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown University offered comments in response to the NSF’s Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan (NSF RFI: 90 FR 9088).

#AI #communication #Georgetown University #NSF

Georgetown MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS AI in Science Fellows Receive $100K in Funding for a Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Workshop

Apr. 7, 2025 - On April 2nd, 2025, a proposal by five AI in Science Fellows at the Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) was awarded by the Schmidt Sciences Community Initiative Fund.

#ADSA member #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #AI #machine learning #funding #Schmidt

U-M Ann Arbor | MIDAS AI in Science Fellows Receive $100K in Funding for a Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning Workshop

Penn funding from National Endowment for the Humanities uncertain as DOGE terminates agency grants

Apr. 7, 2025 - Penn currently has eight active NEH grants, covering a variety of research areas including renovations to the Penn Museum, literature analysis for low resource languages, and AI applications in archaeology.

#UPenn #AI #funding #humanities #Trump

Penn funding from National Endowment for the Humanities uncertain as DOGE terminates agency grants

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"

Mar 6, 2025 - The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' conduct and speech.

#Trump #politics #AI #student visas

Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"