AI4ALL opens doors to artificial intelligence for underrepresented talent through education and mentorship. AI4ALL’s AI education programs for high school students are designed to directly address key barriers to entry and persistence in AI for underrepresented talent.
AI4ALL Open Learning is a free, online program for high school students who belong to underrepresented groups in AI. This program builds problem-solving skills, technical skills, and helps learners gain an understanding of how AI impacts their lives and can help them solve problems they care about. Educators with some computer science experience and a commitment to inclusion are encouraged to become Open Learning facilitators and use the curriculum to set up a “project group” at their school or in their community. Learners may also use the Open Learning curriculum online without the support of a facilitator. The program is currently in beta and will be officially released in fall 2019.
AI4ALL Summer Programs, AI4ALL’s flagship program, provides quality, project-based, culturally responsive AI education to high school students in partnership with top universities around North America. High school students from underrepresented groups in AI attend these summer programs on university campuses and learn about human-centered AI through lectures, hands-on group projects, demos, and conversations with role models and industry leaders in AI. Graduates of the summer programs have lifetime access to Changemakers in AI, AI4ALL’s global alumni community, a network that offers experiential learning, research and mentorship opportunities within the artificial intelligence industry. Currently, AI4ALL is partnered with 11 participating universities: Arizona State University, Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, University of Maryland, and University of Michigan.
Seventy-seven percent of AI4ALL alumni are interested in a career in AI after completing AI4ALL’s summer program, and many are already making significant impacts in the field through research that includes using AI to diagnose dyslexia, to examine inequities in the criminal justice system, and to detect the spread of wildfires. AI4ALL alumni research has won alumni hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes and scholarships, the “best paper” award at Machine Learning for Health workshop at NeurIPS, and coverage in media outlets including USA Today and The Atlantic. Alumni have conducted their research in AI labs at top institutions including Stanford University, MIT, and the University of Washington.
