At times UT-Austin's Good Systems Symposium felt a bit like listening to a Drake album, with conversations heavily focused on trust issues, broken promises, and community engagement (maybe not so Drake on that last one). Artificial intelli­gence experts took turns calling out the human side of a technology that, on its surface, appears to be very much not human. The emphasis on the natural world extended all the way to the decor – a string-of-pearls plant centered and two Swiss cheese plants framed the panelists.

Coupling patient-centered health communication with data from a new academic transplant program, researchers look to give underserved Central Texans with end-stage kidney disease better access to care that leads to longer, healthier lives.

Sharon Strover is a professor of communications in the Moody College of Communication and chair of Good Systems at The University of Texas at Austin. We sat down with Strover in advance of the 2023 Good Systems Symposium, taking place April, 3 - 4, on UT Austin’s campus.

One in eight Texans experiences food insecurity, according to the non-profit agency Feeding America. That means 1.4 million Texas households are food insecure, with limited or inconsistent access to nutritious food for an active, healthy life. The USDA’s most recent survey on the issue reported that Texas is among the top nine U.S. states with a higher prevalence of food insecurity than the national average.

A Q&A with Maria De-Arteaga, Assistant Professor at the McCombs School of Business Information, Risk, and Operations Management Department and member of the Good Systems project, Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Curb Disinformation. Maria is a speaker in a roundtable at the 2023 Good Systems Symposium focused on how to use AI to advance racial justice and combat disinformation.

For almost a year, the founder and CEO of Documenting Austin’s Streets and Homeless (DASH) has spent almost the entirety of every week using his grassroots organization to help with outreach and clean-up efforts that he says are sorely lacking in the capital city.

Dr. Matt Lease, professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, provides a better understanding of AI and Chat GPT.

More than 80% of our health is impacted by social determinants — where we live, work, eat and play. And the “live” part is crucial: Everything from air quality, access to healthy food and health care, and economic stability have an outsize impact on a person’s ability to get and stay well. But what happens when climate change begins to threaten those things?

Researchers from UT Austin have been awarded a prestigious grant from the UK’s Wellcome Trust to understand how flood and storm surge modeling could help inform infectious disease spread in Texas and beyond.

Assistant Professor Miriam Solis will use funds from the Gulf Research Program's Early Career Research Fellowship to advance environmental justice in the Rio Grande Valley by engaging youth perspectives in environmental planning.