Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence

About us

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

Get to Know the Kempner

If you missed our May 3rd introduction to the Kempner Institute, you can still see our webinar slide deck presentation to learn about the Kempner’s work and programming, and see what we have planned for the future.

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Latest news

Kempner Institute Announces Recipients of Inaugural Graduate Student Fellowships

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Announcing 2023 Kempner Institute research fellows

The 2023 Kempner Institute Research recipients are (clockwise from left) David Brandfonbrener, Wilka Carvalho, Jennifer Hu, Ilenna Jones, Binxu Wang, Naomi Saphra, Eran Malach, and T. Anderson Keller.

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Kakade to Co-Lead Autonomous Decision Research at New NSF AI Institute

As part of the AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (AI-SDM), the Kempner’s Sham Kakade will help develop autonomous decision-making tools that aid in disaster and public health management.

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Kempner Institute names four pioneering research scientists as associate faculty

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard announced the appointment of Demba Ba, Talia Konkle, Cengiz Pehlevan, and Haim Sompolinsky as the Institute’s inaugural cohort of associate faculty.

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Human and Machine Intelligence

Harvard Magazine article on Kempner launch.

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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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Breaking barriers to get to breakthroughs

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

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