Project Grant 2513316
- This federal Project Grant award of $104,250.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, supports collaborative research to address the growing threat of AI-generated abuse against individuals. The research team is conducting technical and content analysis to characterize the ecosystem of tools used to create abuse material, leveraging psychological principles to deter attackers, and engaging in technical forecasting to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $542,462 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program to Georgetown University. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: Socio-Technical Interventions Against AI-Generated Abuse." The project aims to address the growing threat of using AI tools to distort images of individuals without their consent, which can be misused for...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $151,693 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to Florida International University (FIU) to conduct collaborative research on socio-technical interventions against AI-generated online abuse. The research team will analyze the ecosystem of tools used to create abuse material, leverage psychological principles to deter attackers, and develop technical forecasting to predict and stop future...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $204,582.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The grant supports a collaborative research project led by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) that aims to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to cultivate constructive "upstander" behaviors among teenagers on social media to combat cyberbullying. The project will...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $832,449 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Cornell University. The grant, with a performance period of October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, will fund collaborative research to leverage conversational AI to cultivate constructive "upstander" behaviors among teens on social media to combat cyberbullying. The project aims to develop AI technologies, including ChatGPT-3 and AI...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Project Grant award of $1,132,002 to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), will examine the design of sociotechnical systems that offer user controls for combating non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) and deter perpetrators from sharing it. The research objectives include: 1) understanding victim needs through design...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of South Carolina. The grant, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, focuses on enhancing security and mitigating harm in AI-generated vision language models. Key technical objectives include: 1) Developing a prompting framework for detecting harmful content provenance in AI-generated vision...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to New York University (NYU) to investigate the risks of AI-generated code in the software supply chain. The 3-year project, which began on June 1, 2024, aims to: (i) develop techniques to distinguish human-written code from AI-generated code, (ii) measure the prevalence and security implications of AI-generated code in open-source software, and (iii)...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $337,397 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program to the University of Washington (UW). The grant, titled "Understanding How Teens Use Generative AI Agents", will fund research to study how teenagers are interacting with generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the impact on teen well-being. The project will involve three main activities: 1) analyzing chat histories...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant to Lehigh University, awarded on October 1, 2023 for $159,332.00, aims to develop a conversational AI system to guide adolescents on using social media to stand up against cyberbullying in a safe and effective manner. The project will first conduct empirical studies to identify successful strategies for collaborative upstanding, where teens encourage each other to confront bullies online....
This $280,050 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports a collaborative research effort at the University of Washington to develop technical and socio-technical interventions against AI-generated abuse. The research team will conduct in-depth analysis of the tools and ecosystem used to create abusive AI-generated content, such as nonconsensual synthetic media. Leveraging principles from psychology research, they will work to deter attackers from creating and viewing this material. The team will also engage in technical forecasting to predict and mitigate future AI-enabled abuse attacks. This multifaceted "defense-in-depth" approach aims to make abuse tools harder to access and use, while also decreasing attackers' motivations. Computational and human-subject experiments will be used to model threat scenarios and develop interventions. The overall goal is to protect Americans by technically characterizing current and future online abuse enabled by AI, and developing effective socio-technical countermeasures.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $280.1k | 7/25/25 |