President Donald Trump has announced an up to $500 billion investment in private sector artificial intelligence infrastructure, which is kicking off with data centers in Texas.

Led by Planet Texas 2050's Dev Niyogi, the UT-City Climate CoLab — a collaborative effort between the city’s Offices of Sustainability and Resilience and researchers at UT — made significant strides in its first full year in 2024.

Planet Texas 2050’s RISE project uses cutting-edge tools, from acoustic sensors to AI, to monitor and protect the state's increasingly endangered ecosystems.

After designating 2024 the “Year of AI,” The University of Texas at Austin had a record-breaking year in its efforts related to research, education and service involving artificial intelligence.

Good Systems' "Being Watched" project is tackling the ethical challenges of smart city surveillance by balancing public safety, privacy and equity through innovative frameworks and community-focused solutions.

AI-based technologies do many things faster and better than humans can alone, with the promise of so much more ahead. And with that, comes a lot of questions, possibilities and well-founded concerns.

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson discusses how the city is exploring and deploying various AI technologies. Good Systems is a key partner in many of these endeavors, including the development of smart hand tools that might be useful to City of Austin workers, the use of digital twins to aid real-time fire tracking and smoke analysis, and the development of standards and guidelines that help ensure the city utilizes AI ethically and responsibly.

The University of Texas’ Speedway Mall was taken over Friday afternoon by parading robots, a mariachi band and community members flashing pictures in the culminating event of UT’s “Year of AI.”

Researchers from Good Systems' Information Integrity core project are hard at work building tools to combat the deleterious effects of mis- and disinformation, which, thanks to AI, now spreads faster and more convincingly than ever before.

Mis- and disinformation are growing challenges, particularly with the rise of generative AI, which amplifies false information online. Good Systems' Josephine Lukito and Matthew Lease highlight how emotionally charged content spreads faster and emphasize the need for media literacy and AI tools to combat misinformation. In this election season especially, students must critically evaluate content and advocate for fact-checking systems to counteract these issues.