Learn about equipping the next generation of leaders to use AI tools responsibly in their work, research and lives through innovative, interdisciplinary approaches from UT Austin Good Systems leaders.

Planet Texas 2050 Symposium

Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Symposium 2025

Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable - Sweat Equity: An ecology of everyday life on a warming planet

Digital Rights and AI in the Urban Landscape is an event you won't want to miss! Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of technology, data privacy, and urban development. Our expert speakers will delve into the impact of AI on our cities and the importance of protecting digital rights in today's digital age. Mark your calendars and come ready to engage in lively conversations with like-minded individuals. See you there!

Join us for an insightful panel with Ethan Zuckerman as we explore the evolving role of social media in the American public sphere. Our ability to understand this new space is constrained by actions powerful platform companies take that create obstacles to researchers who seek to study them. Unpermissioned research is the idea that researchers can practically and ethically study social media even when social media platforms would prefer not to be scrutinized. What insights can we gain when we approach social media with careful, close, and adversarial research methods? Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion!

Discover With Your Data Series - DSO BYTES #3: Introduction to AI Applications with NLP and LLMs

Discover With Your Data Series - DSO BYTES #2: Preparing Your Data for Advanced Analyses

Leaders and key partners of UT Austin’s Good Systems, an interdisciplinary research grand challenge focused on ethical and responsible AI, explore what it means to build beneficial human-AI partnerships and how values-driven innovation can advance equity, sustainability, and improve quality of life for all. They will delve into the potential benefits and risks of new AI applications, the ethical questions that are keeping them up, exciting new technological developments, and their hopes for the future.

This talk surveys ten collaborative communities from around the globe that form the Intersecting Energy Cultures (IEC) Working Group, convened by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities founding director, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, and Dr. Rebecca Macklin at the University of Aberdeen.