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ALT Yellow and black graphic for the Texas Tribune Festival panel "How Should We Regulate AI?" featuring a large headshot of Sherri Greenberg. The graphic lists Saturday, Sept. 26, 9-10 a.m. in the Pennybacker Ballroom at the Omni and identifies Jodey Arrington and Chris Hyams as fellow panelists.
ALT Promotional graphic for Ethics Unwrapped and UT Good Systems' AI and the Race for the Future. An illustrated clapperboard and video camera appear beside the words 'Free documentary screening and panel Q&A' and the event details: Oct. 15, 6-8:30 p.m., Crum Auditorium in Rowling Hall.
How can AI serve people and society? As Good Systems enters the final year of the research grand challenge, Ken Fleischmann and incoming chair Chandra Bhat reflect on what has been built and what comes next.
📖 Read their reflections: tinyurl.com/46ckapuf
ALT Side-by-side portraits of Good Systems founding chair Ken Fleischmann, left, wearing glasses with a long gray beard, and incoming chair Chandra Bhat, right, wearing a blue shirt and red tie.
In 2019, Ken Fleischmann and the Good Systems team challenged us to think beyond what AI can do and ask what it should do. Seven years later, our founding chair explains why he believes “we chose the right problem.”
📖 Read the interview: tinyurl.com/muprm6x7
ALT Ken Fleischmann speaks at the Good Systems Symposium in May 2025, with a microphone and presentation screen behind him.
A new $30 million @NSF award will establish the Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation at UT Austin.
Led by Texas researchers, the new center will advance groundbreaking research into how humans and robots can learn to live and work together.
Another bold step forward for research at Texas. 🤘
Read more: utex.as/4zIvi3w
ALT UT to lead new $30M NSF robotics center.\n\nNew five-year award will establish the Center for Human and Robot Co-Adaptation.
ALT The center will bring together 39 researchers from six universities to study how people and robots adapt to one another over time in everyday environments.
ALT \u201CThe next leap in robotics is not just getting robots to perform more tasks,\u201D said Joydeep Biswas, an associate professor of computer science who will serve as the center\u2019s director. \n\n\u201CIt is enabling robots to understand the people around them: their needs, preferences, values and constraints, while recognizing that people also adapt their behavior when they integrate robots into their environment.\u201D
ALT The research explores how robots and people learn from each other \u2014 robots adapting to individual needs and abilities, and people discovering new ways to live more independently.
Who’s responsible when AI goes wrong?
Our latest blog post explores that question through Bruce Holsinger’s 'Culpability' —a novel about a family, a self-driving car, and the increasingly complicated question of accountability in the age of AI.
ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/a…
Good intentions don't always lead to good decisions. Today's AI Ethics Short explores how cognitive biases influence the way we interact with AI and why behavioral ethics matters.
Check it out and let us know your thoughts.
ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/v…#EthicsUnwrapped#AIEthics
As AI becomes more capable, one question matters more than ever: Who's really making the decisions?
Today's AI Ethics Short explores why preserving human agency remains essential.
Watch it here: piped.video/V11z6NSR-KI#EthicsUnwrapped#WatchNow#AIEthics
Can you trust a decision if you don't understand how it was made?
Today's AI Ethics Short explores why transparency matters and how "black box" AI systems can shape trust, accountability, and ethical decision-making.
Watch it here: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/v…#BlackBox#AI
AI literacy is not just for CS majors. Good Systems founding member @PeterStone_TX spoke with @AP about the need for broad AI literacy. The story also highlights @UTAustin’s Essentials of AI course, open to students across disciplines.
tinyurl.com/mrst2s92
ALT Promotional graphic for “Beyond the Classroom: Balancing Innovation & Integrity in AI-Driven Learning & Training,” set over a dark classroom with digital interface graphics. The Austin Forum event takes place Tuesday, August 4, 2026, from 6:15 to 7:45 p.m. at ACC Rio Grande, Building 3000, 1218 West Ave. Registration is free at tinyurl.com/yf75yufm. The event features Good Systems partner Julie Schell.
AI is already shaping how people work, learn, communicate and make decisions.
Hear perspectives from Good Systems faculty, students and partners in @EthicsUnwrapped’s Running With Scissors, a documentary on AI, ethics and responsibility.
🎥 Watch: tinyurl.com/2s8srxw7
ALT Graphic for Running With Scissors: AI and the Race for the Future, an Ethics Unwrapped documentary. The image includes a collage of film stills showing interviewees, students, a self-driving car, a robot and brain scan imagery, with Texas McCombs, the Center for Leadership and Ethics and Ethics Unwrapped logos at the bottom.