Artificial Intelligence
STPP's work in AI cuts across all three of our main areas of work: education, research, and community partnerships. Our students learn how to critically evaluate the use of AI for considerations such as equity, community impact, and environmental impact. Our research illuminates the social, political, and justice implications of cutting edge AI tools. In our partnerships, we provide non-profits, government agencies, and advocacy organizations with the resources they need to make decisions about AI and advocate for their communities.
Environment/Energy
Through an interdisciplinary approach, with the expertise of talented faculty affiliates, STPP strives to advance education, research, and community engagement to promote equity and justice in environmental and energy policy work. Our projects range from air quality studies in Detroit, Michigan, using Strava data to promote safer roads for bikers with disabilities, to reporting on advanced nuclear reactor technology’s implications on marginalized communities and much more.
Global and International
STPP is dedicated to finding solutions to increasing global wealth and income inequality. One is “inclusive innovation,” which aims to explicitly incorporate the world’s marginalized communities into the innovation system as consumers, laborers, and even innovators. What if we were to imagine innovation processes that are open and technology is developed in collaboration with communities, so that they are actively working for the public good?
Health and Biotechnology
Today’s health innovation system does not benefit everyone equally. To change it we need to think differently about expertise, innovation, and systems for ensuring access to crucial technologies. STPP's faculty, alumni, and students reflect deep expertise in this area as we work to promote more equitable and accessible biotechnology and healthcare policies.
Innovation
Centering equity in the innovation process requires moving away from traditional policy- and agenda-setting institutions, such as government, industry, universities, and foundations, to include more community expertise in the entire process and model. STPP promotes broadening our understanding of expertise, developing new ways to assess technological design, and establishing new institutions and public policy to serve the public interest so that innovation will truly work for the good of everyone.