Our mission is to drive ethical and human-centered design, development, deployment, and use of technology.
The overall goal of the Lab’s annual CFP process is to support research that leverages AI to augment human tasks and abilities and to ensure that these collaborations are ethical and beneficial to society at large.
The Collaborative Projects pair ten Notre Dame faculty members and 15 IBM researchers together to study the ethical challenges emerging at the research frontier of large language models.
The Lab has opportunities for multiple Graduate Research Fellows each year. Learn more about the work these Fellows do and the application process for future Fellows.
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Paul Scherz and Luis Vera
Journal of Religious Ethics, June 2025
The article addresses the epistemological instability created by AI, and suggests we can address resulting ethical problems by returning to practices of the self that philosophers and theologians have relied on in the past.
White Paper
Demetrius Hernandez, Kaitlin Harris, Tristan Hernandez, and Rich Morales
MIT Science Policy Review, 2025
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Simret Araya Gebreegziabher, Charles Chiang, Zichu Wang, Zahra Ashktorab, Michelle Brachman, Werner Geyer, Toby Jia-Jun Li, and Diego Gómez-Zará
CHI WORK, 2025