Project Grant RAI30691526
- This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) supports a multi-method, interdisciplinary, and transnational study to explore the role of big tech companies in the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the implications for democracy, governance, and public trust. The research team from the University of Pennsylvania will assess corporate influence over AI strategies through a combination of...
- The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures (CAIEF) was awarded a $437,833 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program. The grant will support CAIEF's research combining fundamental studies on the social dimensions of AI with forward-looking work on designing sociotechnical systems. Specifically, CAIEF will explore cultural narratives, discursive practices, and...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $186,147 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to the University of Utah. The 3-week summer institute, titled "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence," will be held from July 14 to August 1, 2025 and provide 30 higher education faculty members across humanities disciplines a deeper understanding of the technological workings and societal implications of...
- The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $484,625 Project Grant on January 1, 2026 to the University of Wisconsin - Madison for the "Center for Humanistic Inquiry into AI and Uncertainty." This research center is dedicated to investigating the multifaceted dimensions of uncertainty in emerging AI technologies and anticipating future harms and risks posed by these technologies. The center advances its research mission by providing a community of multidisciplinary...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $216,218 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) program to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. This 1-year grant, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, will fund the "AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice" institute. The institute will explore how to teach writing, research, and critical inquiry in the face...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), through its Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169), awarded a $141,252 project grant to the Dominguez Hills Foundation at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The goal of this 2-year project, starting June 1, 2024, is to understand the implications and interactions of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically ChatGPT, on the identities and practices of pre-service teachers from diverse...
- This Project Grant award of $474,829 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) will support the Notre Dame Program on AI and the Development of Ethics in Agents (ND-PAIDEIA). ND-PAIDEIA will gather a multidisciplinary team of scholars to explore how virtue ethics can inform the development, implementation, assessment, and use of generative AI systems. The program will create a virtue-based framework for approaching...
- The University of Richmond received a $491,863 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to establish the Center for Liberal Arts and AI (CLAAI). This collaborative research center will bring together researchers, students, and pedagogy experts from 16 small liberal arts colleges in the Southern United States to study the social, cultural, and legal implications of artificial intelligence. Key activities...
- This $121,811 Project Grant awarded on June 1, 2024 by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities program (CFDA 45.169) supports a collaborative research project titled "Imagining AI in Organized Labor: Struggles Over the Value of Cultural Work." Through interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis, the project investigates how cultural workers and their labor unions conceptualize generative AI...
- The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Bard College under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161) to develop indigenous protocols to guide the creation and refinement of AI wearable and digital technologies. The project, titled "The Wihanble S'a Center at Bard College," aims to imagine, design, test, and prototype a series of research and technological development activities that build AI-driven systems grounded in both...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Georgetown University's Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Citizenship (AIDC) under the Promotion of the Humanities Research program (CFDA 45.161). The AIDC initiative is designed to produce impactful research addressing the effects of AI on the individual's experience of democratic life. In partnership with Georgetown's Humanities Initiative and the Aspen Institute, the AIDC project will create an interdisciplinary network of DC-area scholars to illuminate the transformative impact of AI on the future of democratic self-governance. The 3-year project will sponsor annual fellowships and monthly public events to advance humanistic scholarship on AI and facilitate the dissemination of these insights to a broader audience.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 12/9/25 |