UT researchers are working with the City of Austin to build a smart mobility hub in the Georgian Acres neighborhood in Northeast Austin, a transit desert.

Given the life-and-death stakes of AI innovation, it is critical for designers to reflect and to seek input from experts in other domains, such as the legal and policy domains. Hear more from Good Systems experts in this guest blog for Cisco Tech Blog.

The University of Texas at Austin is one of many academic institutions working with community volunteers in Maryland to help teach social media how to respond to disasters.

Check out the top five things you missed in our Week with the World Economic Forum, when industry and academia came together to discuss how governments buy AI technologies.

Millions of people, especially people of color, are cut off from quality food, jobs, healthcare and education, because they lack access to suitable transportation. School of Architecture Associate Professor and Good Systems Chair Junfeng Jiao coined the term 'transit deserts' to describe these areas. He talks with WBEZ Chicago about possible solutions.

How are local governments using remote and hybrid working arrangements? How will local government operations and management change post pandemic? What key questions do government executives need to ask to meet the demands of a post pandemic time? LBJ Professor of Practice and Good Systems researcher Sherri Greenberg discusses these issues on the IBM Center's Business of Government podcast.

Surveillance is happening all around us all the time. Businesses, governments, and nonstate actors are gathering information — whether it’s to sell us something on social media or screen us when we apply for a home loan. University of Texas at Austin and New York University researchers participated in a Good Systems panel last month where they discussed various types of surveillance and how this practice is sometimes obvious but also elusive.

Ethical concerns regarding modern technology seem to show up everywhere. These issues give rise to questions about whether industry is ready to face the challenges associated with AI and how ethical considerations can be implemented in the day-to-day workflow at technology companies.

Last year, Maria De-Arteaga joined the McCombs School of Business faculty as an assistant professor in the Information, Risk and Operations Management Department. During her Ph.D., she became increasingly concerned about the risk of overburdening or underserving historically marginalized populations through the application of machine learning. She's now devoted her career to understanding the risks and opportunities of using ML to support decision-making in high-stakes settings.

Robots are roaming the UT campus this week delivering free lemonade. It's part of a Good Systems project to create ethical artificial intelligence that successfully integrates with humans in real world settings.