ASU faculty, staff and student researchers are leveraging the power of AI for public good. With access to cutting-edge technologies, they are accelerating research and broadening impact in areas such as health care, energy, water, national security and more. They are also studying AI itself — applying a wide range of disciplines to improve the technology’s performance, security, reliability, accessibility and sustainability.
HLA-Inception is an AI tool that decodes how an individual’s immune system responds to threats. Using this tool, researchers discovered patterns that can predict immune responses, including which people have a higher chance of surviving certain cancer therapies.
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As buried fuel pipelines age, cracks, leaks and ruptures are becoming alarmingly common. ASU researchers are creating a new kind of AI that pulls from real-time sensor data, simulations and accident reports to predict when something might go wrong.
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ASU researchers are building AI tools that “reverse engineer” people’s speech patterns to track brain health. Their models analyze how people speak to detect subtle changes caused by conditions like ALS or Alzheimer’s disease that doctors might miss.
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ASU researchers are building AI tools to help cities manage traffic and public services. In lab tests with a model intersection, AI-driven signals cut peak-hour commute times by about 3 minutes — time that could save lives in emergency situations.
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Myopic maculopathy is the leading cause of severe vision loss or blindness. But when it is caught early, treatments can slow vision loss. ASU researchers developed an AI tool that helps screen for this disease more effectively, allowing for earlier intervention.
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ASU engineers are using satellite images and AI simulations to create maps that identify paths with the most shade cover. These tools can guide pedestrians and cyclists to the coolest routes and help city planners optimize the location of trees or awnings.
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ASU is collaborating with Idaho National Laboratory and DCX to explore the potential of small modular reactors to power data centers, reducing these facilities’ impact on the energy grid that serves our homes and businesses.
ASU researchers don’t just use AI as a tool to accelerate research. They are also helping to guide AI innovation in directions that help individuals and communities thrive — maximizing benefits while reducing risks.
ASU is guided by a set of design aspirations. One of these is “Principled Innovation,” which puts character and values at the core of all university innovation. It involves being intentional in all of our decisions and thinking about the impact we are having as an institution.
ASU researchers are creating a system that can see the rules used by large language models, which power tools like ChatGPT. This allows developers to retrain these models to avoid repeating mistakes such as creating hallucinations or echoing stereotypes.
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Increasing use of AI requires ever more data centers, which consume significant amounts of energy and water. ASU researchers are designing systems that can scale processing speed up or down as needed, saving resources when less processing or storage is required.
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A new book, “AI and the Art of Being Human,” offers a practical, optimistic and human-centric guide to navigating — and thriving in — the age of artificial intelligence. The book was co-authored by an ASU professor, ASU alum and AI.
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