Throughout this tumultuous election season, dis- and misinformation have spread rapidly, blurring the line between fact and fiction. Viral posts, often misleading or false, impact public political understanding, challenging platforms' abilities to curb disinformation. Good Systems' Josephine Lukito is just one of many UT Austin researchers emphasizing the need for critical media literacy to navigate this evolving digital landscape.

We asked some of our researchers and partners to share their insights on what we should know about AI today, innovative applications of AI for social good, how we can all influence technology design and deployment and take agency over the ways AI shows up in our lives, and what they are most looking forward to from Good Systems this year.

Read letters from outgoing Executive Team chair Sherri Greenberg and incoming chair Luis Sentis as they reflect on the last year and look ahead.

UT Austin's Good Systems grand challenge expands research on cross-cutting themes in ethical AI, welcoming two postdoctoral fellows to join existing work on AI alignment. The new fellows will focus on human-AI interaction and AI's impact on knowledge and power structures.

The HEAD Residency 2024 forms an element of the TAS Hub and Good Systems Strategic Partnership (an RAi UK International Partnership project), focussed on multidisciplinary research impacting the USA and UK, addressing crucial challenges of AI, robotics, sensors, and other socio-technical applications in healthcare.R

From local initiatives to state legislative hearings, Good Systems researchers have participated in a growing number of policy discussions throughout 2024. This uptick in engagement reflects both the urgency of AI governance issues and the group's efforts to translate their research into practical policy guidance.

The University of Texas at Austin’s Bridging Barriers research grand challenges have demonstrated the value and impact made possible by interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Good Systems grand challenge at The University of Texas at Austin is developing digital twin technology to create smarter, safer cities, with their "Good System for Smart Cities" project. Using AI and real-time data, the initiative emphasizes ethical considerations and community engagement, aiming to shape more sustainable and equitable urban environments as urbanization increases. The project has started out by focusing on fire and smoke mitigation in Austin's wildland-urban interface.

A multi-university team that includes University of Texas at Austin researchers has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to create AI-based interventions to help address the risk for suicide among Black youth.

A Q&A with Good Systems symposium keynote speaker Helen Nissenbaum, a leading authority on privacy who devised the theory of contextual integrity (CI), a philosophical maxim that redefined privacy as the appropriate flow of information