News and Awards

“Don’t ask what computers can do, ask what they should do.” That is the title of the chapter on AI and ethics in a book I coauthored in 2019. At the time, we wrote that…

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined…

At Microsoft Build 2023, we announced support for text and image data in the Azure Machine Learning responsible AI dashboard in preview. This blog will focus on the dashboard’s new vision insights capabilities, supporting debugging…

MIT announced danah boyd is the recipient of the 2022-23 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society (STS). The Morison Prize recognizes an outstanding individual who combines humanistic values with effectiveness in practical affairs, particularly…

This week, FLAML has reached a significant milestone: 1 million downloads. Originating as an intern research project within Microsoft Research, FLAML has grown into an open-source library used widely across the industry and supported by…

Lester Mackey, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Dr. Mackey received the award for deep theoretical work in statistical machine learning with impactful applications.

US tech giant Microsoft has partnered with Start-Up Nation Central to help Israeli agrifood tech startups augment their AI-powered models for sustainable farming solutions and get exposure to global markets. Microsoft and Start-Up Nation Central…

The International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) announced today that the 2023 Seoul Test of Time Award will be presented to the authors of the paper “A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation;”…

As the surge of interest in artificial intelligence applications continues unabated since last fall’s launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one can trace it spreading from the tech industry itself to every corner of corporate America. McKinsey’s new…