The Kempner Institute for the Study of Artificial and Natural Intelligence

About us

We seek to understand the basis of intelligence in natural and artificial systems.

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Breaking barriers to get to breakthroughs

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan, other luminaries share, and celebrate, vision for Kempner Institute.

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Harvard seen as well-equipped to meet ambitious institute’s goals

Scholars across University say Harvard is well-suited to the challenge owing to breadth, size of intellectual resources, experience.

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10-Year effort to develop science and technologies to measure human biology in action

CZI aims to build tools and support research to observe and measure human biology in wew ways.

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New Harvard institute to study natural, artificial intelligence

University-wide initiative made possible by gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Chan Zuckerberg commits $500 million to Harvard neuroscience and AI institute

The Institute will recruit and train future generations of researchers to study intelligence from biological, cognitive, engineering, and computational perspectives.