The Social Science Research Council announces the launch of its newest program, the AI Disclosures Project, led by noted technology innovator Tim O’Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss. The AI Disclosures Project will focus on developing best practices for firms’ disclosures about their uses of AI models, ensuring that stakeholders have access to consistent, accurate, and transparent information about how AI models are being developed and deployed.
In this essay, Rutgers University professor Charles Senteio describes how his research has been enhanced by the “invisible benefits” of participation in the SSRC’s global Mercury Project research consortium. He illustrates how funders’ choices in structuring collaborative work–within and across teams–create value beyond the direct funding of research projects, enabling new ideas and collaborations that wouldn’t have otherwise happened.
The SSRC welcomes two new members to its Board of Directors. Ronnie Chatterji is the Mark Burgess and Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy at Duke University, and has served as a senior advisor in the White House and as Chief Economist in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Sherry Glied is Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Professor of Public Service, and has served at senior levels in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Social Science Research Council announces the third cohort of Just Tech Fellows. These ten fellows have been chosen to represent a growing network of innovators who prioritize humanity, dignity, and well-being in tech, and will receive unrestricted support for two years to tackle complex issues at the intersection of technology and society.
As Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announces its next five-year strategy, the SSRC’s Mercury Project explains the importance of building robust and science-informed vaccine demand chains to complement vaccine supply chains.
Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.
In part six of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Zachary Porreca talks about his research on gun violence, drug markets, and the prison system.
In part five of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Emma Rackstraw talks about her research on the effects of police reality TV shows and how employers respond to job candidates with a criminal record.
In part four of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Michael Topper talks about his research on the impact of policing on public health.
The Measure of America program uses granular data and effective communication to enable stakeholders to better understand the problem of youth disconnection, and to develop policies to reduce the share of young people neither working nor in school.
