Projects

Lab members are exploring AI-related questions across several areas.

AI tools for scholarship, education, and communities

• publicscholarship.org, an AI-powered database of public-facing scholarship, to make expert knowledge accessible to all. The largest such database in the world.

  Pinillos

• ux-phi: AI-driven historical philosophy simulations and thought experiments

  Hansen

• Civic AI: a community-driven blueprint for human agency around emerging technology in the Phoenix metro area

  Priniski

Interpretable, trustworthy, and fair AI

• The lifting–lowering framework for interpretable AI

  Davulcu

• Programmable and explainable neuro-symbolic AI, proof-carrying reasoning, and human-governed AI systems

  Davulcu

• GoPX.ai, an interpretable AI platform for law, healthcare and other domains

  Davulcu

• Opacity in machine learning models

  Fillmore-Patrick

• Algorithmic fairness and the law

  Di Bello

• AI ethics and safety

  Fillmore-Patrick, Pinillos, and Di Bello

• Doubting dispositions in chatbots

  Pinillos

Foundations of data-driven reasoning

• Statistics, risk, and evidence in the criminal justice system

  Di Bello

• Epistemic foundations of frequentist hypothesis testing

  Fillmore-Patrick

• Statistical models for measurement in the social sciences

  Fillmore-Patrick

Multi-agent systems and collective inquiry

• Synthetic research networks: how communities of AI agents search for truth (Cosmos Institute AI x Truth-Seeking grant)

  Pinillos and Hansen

• Hybrid Group Intelligence: achieving creative consensus in multi-agent human–AI systems

  Priniski

• NetCom: Multi-scale narrative dynamics in experimental group communication networks

  Priniski

Language, narrative, and social behavior

• The narratives experts use about AI

  Pinillos and Priniski

• Meaning holism in distributional semantics and LLMs

  Hansen

• Experimental philosophy and artificial intelligence

  Hansen and Pinillos

• Causal Claims Pipeline: AI method for modeling beliefs and narratives from natural language

  Priniski

• Narrative Agency: How AI shapes human narratives

  Priniski

• Finding Allies for the War of Words: sociocultural modeling (DoD Minerva Research Initiative)

  Davulcu

• Measuring and countering social influence and persuasion by extremist groups (DoD Minerva Research Initiative)

  Davulcu

• Behavioral analytics for detecting financial fraud (NSF Partnership for Innovation)

  Davulcu