Projects
Research Grants
The overall goal of the Lab’s grantmaking 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. To stay up to date on future calls for proposals, please follow the Lab's LinkedIn and subscribe to our email newsletter.
Collaborative Projects
In mid-2024, the Lab launched eleven projects that will receive almost $300,000 in funding. The projects pair ten Notre Dame faculty members and 15 IBM researchers who will work together to study the ethical challenges emerging at the research frontier of large language models. These projects will be completed by December 2025.
Ethical Cities
The Ethical Cities Program, launched by the Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab in the summer of 2024, is a community-focused research translation endeavor that brings Notre Dame faculty and students together with local organizations to develop technology and policy solutions to real-world challenges in the South Bend region.
Pulitzer Center Partnership
In partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the Notre Dame–IBM Technology Ethics Lab is a funding partner of the AI Spotlight Series, a program designed by the Pulitzer Center that equips reporters and editors with the knowledge and skills to cover AI. The program consists of three tracks: an introductory class for reporters on any desk, an in-depth course for reporters focused on covering AI or deepening their knowledge of AI reporting; and a module for editors commissioning stories and thinking strategically about their team’s overall coverage.