Opportunities

A growing list of ways to engage on AI-related topics, pursue funding for AI research, and more.

Job Opportunity - Lead, AI Support

The Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC) at Yale is seeking an experienced AI/ML professional to lead a new support function at the Center aimed at ensuring that all Yale social science faculty can advance their work with these cutting-edge tools. As part of a new initiative at Yale, this role will strive to improve access to, and results of, AI research within the social sciences at Yale. To carry out this work, the AI Support Program Lead will forge connections with scientists at other AI-focused units, such as the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science and the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design, to “help the community develop, use, and evaluate AI and apply it to deliver breakthrough research at an unprecedented speed and scale.”

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Health AI Championship Competition

Statewide initiative to harness the power of AI to radically improve healthcare, enhance lives, and drive meaningful impact to all Communities in Connecticut.  1st prize $100,000; 2nd prize $50,000; 3rd prize $25k. 

Health AI Championship Website 

Important Dates

  • Pre-submission - March 28, 2025, contact person, Yale New Haven Health: Lee Schwamm, MD – innovation@ynhh.org
  • Submission - April 7, 2025
  • Semi-Finalist Pitch - May 27, 2025
  • Celebration - May 29, 2025 at the Yale Innovation Summit (see below)

Responsible AI in Global Business 2025

Unlocking Value, Earning Trust: A multi-disciplinary conference at Yale

April 3, 2025

Yale School of Management

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in business operations worldwide, Yale University brings together leaders from business, academia, and government for a vital discussion on responsible AI development and adoption. This multi-disciplinary conference addresses AI from critical perspectives including technology implementation, management strategy, societal impact, policy frameworks, and regulatory considerations.

The conference opens with an evening fireside chat exploring historical parallels between AI and past technological revolutions, followed by a full day of sessions featuring distinguished speakers from global organizations. Key themes include AI’s ROI from a CEO’s perspective, AI’s impact on workforce transformation, building public trust in AI systems, effective human-AI collaboration, navigation of the evolving content ecosystem, and practical approaches to AI regulation and governance.

The conference is organized by Yale’s leading AI initiatives, including the Artificial Intelligence Association and Program on Stakeholder Innovation & Management at the Yale School of Management, AI at Yale, and the Data & Trust Alliance in collaboration with the Schmidt Program at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, Information Society Project at the Yale Law School, and the Digital Ethics Center at Yale.

For questions or speaker requests, please contact club-ai@som.yale.edu.

Conference Website

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT

April 10-11, 2025

This conference, co-sponsored by Yale Divinity School, the Yale Digital Ethics Center, the Yale Humanities Division, and the Yale Department of Religious Studies. brings together theologians, ethicists and philosophers of religion to reflect on the profound ways in which AI is transforming our sense of selfhood and agency, our interpersonal relationships, and our societies. How is the Spirit at work in this new thing? And how can we ensure that digital technologies serve a more flourishing human and creaturely future? 

The conference will feature three keynote talks, alongside three core panels addressing themes of Creation, Fall and Redemption, and Communion and Eschatological Consummation. There will also be a graduate student panel to launch the conference.

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A Call to Create: Linguistic Justice in an AI World

April 30, 9:30am-5:00pm

Kline Tower, Marsh Lecture Hall

Join the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning for a day long event addressing the question: how do we work in the short term to ensure that all of our students have the same linguistic liberties in our courses, with or without AI tools, and how can we build towards better, more ethical AI tools in the long term. How, in other words, do we work towards linguistic justice in an AI world?
 

Registration

Yale Climate Day & Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture Spring 2025 Symposium

AI for Natural Climate Solutions

May 8-9, Kroon Hall, Yale School of the Environment, Burke Auditorium

This symposium has a virtual option.  Explore how AI can advance innovation in natural carbon capture research including a showcase of current AI applications.  

Registration

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Envisioning Artificial Intelligence at Yale Symposium

May 9, 2025

Kline Tower

Save the date for a campus-wide AI research symposium designed to showcase a sampling of the excellent AI research and scholarship happening across Yale.  See the symposium webpage to register and to subscribe for updates.    

2025 InsightsOn Conference presented by Yale Center for Customer Insights

Friday, May 9 - Saturday May 10, 2025

Edward P. Evans Hall

This year’s InsightsOn Conference at Yale kicks off with a dynamic session on leveraging AI, featuring leaders from Meta, Google, IBM, and more. The conversation will unpack practical takeaways on topics like personalization in the age of AI, navigating trust amid consumer fears and misconceptions, and the broader business implications of integrating AI responsibly.

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Yale Innovation Summit 2025 - Save the Date

May 28-29, 2025, New Haven, CT

Get your pitch deck ready.  This event has become one of the region’s biggest innovation events, drawing investors, founders, and industry partners to Yale’s campus to create new connections and opportunities.  We are looking forward to Wednesday’s, 1:45pm Compute Power: The Future of Cloud Computing in an AI Landscape and Thursday’s, 2:30pm AI in Drug Discovery panels.

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