The Sloane Lab is an interdisciplinary research group that conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life. The focus lies on artificial intelligence (AI) as a social phenomenon that intersects with wider cultural, economic, material, and political conditions. The lab spearheads social science leadership in applied work on responsible AI, public scholarship, and technology policy. 

Sloane Lab’s past and present supporters include the Association for Computing Machinery, Data & Society, Ford Foundation, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Google, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, National Science Foundation, New America, New_Public, NYU Center for Responsible AI, NYU Libraries, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU Office of Sustainability, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Pivotal Ventures, Pulitzer Center, Technical University Munich, Future Imagination Collaboratory Fund at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Notre Dame, UVA Darden-Data Science Collaboratory for Applied Data Science, UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy, and the Weizenbaum Institute Berlin.


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