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Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

From health care to education, policy to art, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing our world and our daily lives.
Are we ready?

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The future is now


Minds over machines

Researchers across Harvard are exploring how we can embrace and advance AI’s benefits while still addressing issues of bias and transparency.


Radcliffe Institute

Race, technology, and algorithmic bias

Joy Buolamwini, Latanya Sweeney, and Darren Walker discuss the limits of technology in the face of algorithmic bias, or the fact that AI systems often either mischaracterize or fail to recognize dark-skinned faces.

An AI with an M.D.

From diagnosing diseases to predicting patient outcomes, new AI models could have a major impact on the quality and efficiency of health care.


Some of the most pressing questions in medicine can be advanced through the application of AI in the clinic.”

Isaac Kohane

Harvard Medical School

Isaac Kohane

ct-scan results
  • Harvard Medical School

Can Jack-of-all-trades AI reshape medicine?

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  • Massachusetts General Hospital

Detecting dementia with AI

A colorful image of neurons in the brain. Kind of looks like foam.
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  • Harvard Medical School

AI tool predicts risk of lung cancer

lung cancer cells
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  • Harvard Chan School

Using AI as a pandemic crystal ball

coronavirus
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  • Harvard Medical School

How AI is disrupting medicine

computer chips
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Always advancing

Meet the institutes, initiatives, and people at Harvard pushing the current state of Artificial Intelligence into the future.


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