The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $435,594 Project Grant under its Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The grant, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, will fund a collaborative research project titled "REDDDOT PHASE 2: ENABLING PARTICIPATORY PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR AI TRAINING DATA". The project aims to develop novel approaches to support public interest technology (PIT) organizations in deploying data safeguards, including techniques like differential privacy, to build artificial intelligence (AI) systems while navigating tradeoffs between data protection and model usefulness. The research will involve ethnographic and computational methods to identify socio-technical challenges, create participatory stakeholder engagement processes, and build software and communication tools for evaluating and improving the transparency of AI systems that use differential privacy. No sub-awards are planned under this grant.
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