Hosted by MICDE, the State of AI & the Future of Institutions event brings together scholars, students, and institutional leaders to examine the rapid evolution of AI and its implications for knowledge, research, education, work, governance, and society. Held twice a year, the series creates a forum for timely, cross-disciplinary discussion of AI’s emerging capabilities, limitations, and consequences.

Agenda:

Talks:
3:00 Rick Lewis (Cognitive science)
3:10 Mike Wellman (Computer science/COE)
3:20 Henriette Elvang (Physics)
3:30 Kate Cagney (Social Research)
3:40 Jason Owen Smith (Institutional Capabilities and Research Intelligence)
3:50 Joan Nwatu (Student perspective)

Panel
4:00-5:00: Chandra Sripada (Philosophy/Psychiatry), Karen Smith (Math), Venkat Raman (Aerospace/AI for science), Mike Wellman (CSE/COE)


Speakers and panelists:
- Henriette Elvang, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Oskar Klein Collegiate Professor of Physics, Chair of the Physics Department

- Michael Wellman, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

- Karen E. Smith, William Fulton Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics, Chair of the Mathematics Department

- Richard Lewis, John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science

- Kathleen Cagney, Professor of Sociology, Director of the U-M Institute for Social Research

- Venkat Raman, James Arthur Nicholls Collegiate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Director of the C-PRIME Center

- Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Vice President for Research – Institutional Capabilities and Research Intelligence; Professor of Sociology and Organizational Studies; Professor of Public Policy; Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research

-Chandra Sripada, Theophile Raphael Research Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Director, Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

-Joan Nwatu, Graduate Student - Computer Science and Engineering