The UC Davis Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures (CAIEF) received a $437,833 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) on February 1, 2025. The award supports CAIEF's work to promote the democratic governance of AI systems by engaging diverse stakeholders in processes of creative worldmaking and designing sociotechnical systems. The center takes an experimental humanities approach that combines fundamental research on the social dimensions of AI with forward-looking research on new AI systems and community-design methods to prototype democratic modes of AI governance and responsible innovation. CAIEF's long-term vision emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, democratic participation, and creative imagination in navigating the challenges and opportunities presented by AI technologies.
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