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June 5, 2025
To Spot Toxic Speech Online, Try AI

A new tool helps balance accuracy with fairness toward all groups in social media

Five individuals are seated on chairs in front of an audience during a panel discussion. Each panelist holds a microphone.
May 20, 2025
UT Unveils Proposed Guidelines for Responsible Use of AI in Teaching and Learning

As artificial intelligence tools become increasingly integrated into academic life, The University of Texas at Austin is leading the way with new guidelines to help students, faculty and staff use AI responsibly in educational settings.

Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Coordinator Sarah Smith (in hat), with children at Del Valle Day, June 2024.
May 1, 2025
How to Lay Down Tracks While the Train Is Moving

A new paper from the WCWH team explains how they’ve built a long-term, community-based health study — and why sharing the process matters.

Six members of the team represented Good Systems at the peer consortium's gathering in Washington, DC, in February.
April 30, 2025
UT, Universities Join Forces on AI Ethics

Good Systems helped launch a national network of universities — a "community of practice" — committed to ethical AI. The group shares research, teaching strategies and policy ideas to ensure AI advances in a just and responsible way.

The Climate Navigators and other project leaders celebrate the launch of the Resilience Navigation Portal, September 2024.
April 29, 2025
Navigating Climate Challenges

A new community-built portal is helping East Austin neighborhoods prepare for disasters, thanks to a Planet Texas 2050 collaboration that blends hyperlocal insight with cutting-edge climate data.

Good Systems’ Sherri Greenberg (left), an Austin AI Alliance board member, moderates a panel discussion at the Alliance’s State of AI in Austin event in February.
April 29, 2025
In Good Company

Good Systems is part of a growing alliance of tech, civic and academic partners working to shape the future of AI in Austin through ethics, education, policy and practical collaboration.

Araceli McBeth and Rebecca Gomez, parent community liaisons at Newton Collins Elementary School and Ojeda Middle School, respectively, accept the Cornerstone Award from WCWH chair Mike Mackert on behalf of DVISD.
April 21, 2025
Cornerstones and Guiding Lights
Whole Communities–Whole Health’s (WCWH) annual symposium kicked off with good vibes by recognizing seven outstanding community partners. The awards, presented in two categories, honor organizations and individuals whose dedication has been instrumental in advancing WCWH’s mission to build research collaborations that benefit Central Texas families.
Flash-funding award recipient Akram Al-Turk, a research associate at the Moritz Center for Societal Impact at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, works on his grant proposal at the WCWH Symposium, February 7.
April 15, 2025
Rapid Pitches, Real-World Impact

Two research teams won rapid-turnaround grants at the 2025 Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Symposium for projects tackling health and environmental issues in Central Texas.

UT professor Matthew Lease speaks on a panel about the ethics and policy of AI at the TAMEST conference
March 28, 2025
AI Companies Are Turning Gig Workers into Human Farms

With a constant need to expand data sets, highly educated employees are being asked to feed sentences to machines all day long.

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March 27, 2025
Proposed Texas House bill aims to regulate AI in politics

A bill to label some campaigns advertisements as artificial intelligence (AI) has received a favorable committee report, but it could be headed for trouble.