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About AI4Society

AI for Society (AI4S) group at the AI Institute is focused on enabling people to make rational decisions despite real-world complexities of poor data, changing goals, and limited resources by augmenting their cognitive limitations with technology. Lead by Prof. Biplav Srivastava, the group works in neuro-symbolic methods, trusted AI, and applications of data-driven methods to society.

We focus on innovating and applying AI techniques for hard problems facing the society with an inclusive, value-driven, focus.

AI4Society @ AAAI 2023
ElectionBot-SC Demo @TechInLaw '24
Team Lunch - Spring '23
AI for Credible Elections Workshop @AAAI '23
Team Lunch - Summer '23
Holi Celebration @ 2024

News

2024
November

Kausik Lakkaraju, Rachneet Kaur, Sunandita Patra, and Biplav Srivastava will present a tutorial on Evaluating and Rating AI Systems for Trust and Its Application to Finance at the 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF-24), New York, USA, Nov 2024.

October

Our student paper, 'Towards Enhancing Road Safety in South Carolina Using Insights from Traffic and Driver-Education Data' is accepted in the AAAI-25 Student Abstract and Poster Program.

Our magazine, 'AI-Assisted Research Collaboration With Open Data for Fair and Effective Response to Call for Proposals' is accepted at AAAI AI Magazine, 2024.

Our paper, 'Building a Plan Ontology to Represent and Exploit Planning Knowledge and Its Applications' is accepted at Eighth International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, India, 2024. For more details, visit Planning-Ontology.

We have launched ElectionBot-SC, a chatbot for voters to help get information about 2024 elections in South Carolina. See a demo and participate in IRB-approved studies.

Biplav Srivastava participated as a panelist at the University of South Carolina School of Law’s symposium titled “AI and Elections” on Oct 4, 2024. Click here for more details.

September

Our paper, 'Towards Effective Planning Strategies for Dynamic Opinion Networks' is accepted at Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Vancouver, 2024 for poster presentation. LinkedIn post

Kausik Lakkaraju started his internship at Mayo Clinic (Sep 2024 - Jan 2025).

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