Interested in AI, policy, or law? Apply to the CNTR AISLE Legislation Lab: a semester-long experiential and professional development program where undergraduates learn to evaluate AI legislation shaping our digital future.

Researchers at Brown University found that AI chatbots routinely violate core mental health ethics standards, underscoring the need for legal standards and oversight as use of these tools increases.

CNTR Director Suresh Venkatasubramanian recently co-authored a recent National Academies rapid expert consultation on AI use by state and local governments, urging state and local leaders to avoid extreme hype about AI, both its promise and dangers, and instead to use a careful, experimental approach.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign and Professor of Computer Science and Data Science recently published an opinion piece in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.

The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.

Check out the latest episode of the podcast The Internet is Crack, where CNTR Director and co-author of the AI Bill of Rights Suresh Venkatasubramanian sits down with the podcast hosts to discuss AI, fairness, accountability, and the future of algorithmic decision-making.

In the age of modern AI and politics, governments like the United States want sovereign AI: "self-sufficiency in the development of AI technologies." But the tech companies that have created this new technology have turned AI sovereignty into subscription services, "encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control while being the true powers behind the scenes."

In a new perspective piece published on TechPolicy.Press, Brown AI Policy researchers discuss AI sovereignty, sovereignty as a service, and where the
power really lies between tech companies and governments.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian recently gave one of the keynote talks at the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Athens, Greece this June.

Congratulations to Rui-Jie Yew, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Jeff Huang on winning a Best Paper Award at the 2025 DIS Conference for their paper: "Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations."

The CNTR hosts many research projects that are made possible by our undergraduate, Master's, and doctoral students. Hear from some of our graduating students explore what has inspired them at Brown.

The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).

The latest cover story from Conduit, the Brown CS annual magazine, is a close look at Brown's new Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign (CNTR), whose mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all, especially those that technology has left behind.

This December’s Conduit issue, published annually by Brown’s Department of Computer Science, highlights the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s faculty and student research that recenters technology around human needs.

Second year PhD student Rui-Jie Yew was recently recognized as runner-up for Best Student Paper at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) Conference in San Jose at the end of October.

The Paragon Policy Fellowship, co-led by Brown senior Jenn Wang and advised by CNTR Director Suresh Venkatasubramanian, connects students to local governments to work on tech policy issues and plans to develop a playbook for building lasting talent pipelines.

This course will provide a taste of the curriculum for DSI and SPS's upcoming Online MS program in Data Policy and Governance, starting Fall 2025.

Researchers at the CNTR published two papers at the 2024 AAAI-ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.

Artificial intelligence is propelling advances in all areas of science. But vigilance is needed, warn four researchers at the leading edge.