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State governments are experimenting with AI introduction - Kleinman

May 22, 2026 Michigan Advance
Molly Kleinman, the managing director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy said while state governments are trying to be deliberate about their approach to AI adoption, the...
State governments are experimenting with AI introduction - Kleinman
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Innovation as a force for equity

Mar 27, 2026
Issues in Science and Technology is a quarterly journal published by the National Academy of Sciences and Arizona State University.  Today's health innovation system doesn't benefit everyone equally. To change it we need to think differently about ex...
Innovation as a force for equity
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Kleinman comments on DPD use of ShotSpotter

Dec 16, 2025 Michigan Advance
Molly Kleinman, the managing director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy program at the University of Michigan, commented to Michigan Advance about the Detroit Police Department use of ShotSpotter. "In terms of the best practices for any c...
STPP brings interdisciplinary, historical perspectives to public interest technology issues
In the Media

Green addresses data center forum

Dec 4, 2025 Michigan Advance
Ben Green, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, explained that using programs like ChatGPT or video generation platforms requires a huge amount of energy, increasin...
Using algorithms in government: Opportunities, challenges, and paths forward
In the Media

Kleinman outlines potential effects of data centers

Dec 3, 2025 Michigan Advance
"Are the products that they're running – the sort of generative AI general use kinds of tools like ChatGPT – are those serving a purpose in society? Those start to become big questions, but when you think about the trade offs, I think they're worth a...
STPP brings interdisciplinary, historical perspectives to public interest technology issues
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Hassan on AI, power, and decolonial possibility in Africa

Apr 29, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an increasingly defining force, shaping global advancements and influencing crucial aspects of society. Assistant Professor Yousif Hassan’s research examines the social, economic, and political implications of emerging...
Hassan on AI, power, and decolonial possibility in Africa
In the Media

Parthasarathy on AI running the government

Mar 13, 2025 Al Jazeera
Shobita Parthasarathy, Ford School professor, says "These workers have real expertise and a nuanced understanding of the issues, which AI does not. AI does not, in fact, ‘understand’ anything." So, she says,  “It’s a very bad idea" to use AI to run t...
The politics of inclusive innovation in international development: Menstrual hygiene management and sanitary pads in India
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Viewing Asilomar from the Global South

Jan 31, 2025
Fifty years ago, the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA convened 140 life scientists from the U.S. and the UK to anticipate potential risks in the emerging biotechnology field to help inform rules and regulations. The conference was celebrated as...
The politics of inclusive innovation in international development: Menstrual hygiene management and sanitary pads in India
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Hassan awarded U-M anti-racism grant

Sep 10, 2024
Ford School assistant professor Yousif Hassan has been chosen for a University of Michigan research grant for his work that explores how AI innovations and data can center social justice and address racial and economic inequalities in African societi...
Hassan on AI, power, and decolonial possibility in Africa
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OVPR awards 3 Ford School staff members for research, leadership

Apr 26, 2024
The Office of the Vice President for Research will recognize three of the Ford School's research center staff—Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija (Education Policy Initiative), Molly Kleinman (Science, Technology and Public Policy program), and Kyle S. Kwaiser ...
OVPR awards 3 Ford School staff members for research, leadership
State & Hill

Faculty Findings, spring 2024

Apr 24, 2024
Innovation that benefits societyInclusive innovation—the idea of introducing technologies designed for and by the poor to boost economic growth in impoverished communities—often misses the real problems facing these communities  and champions solutio...
Faculty Findings, spring 2024
State & Hill

Meet new assistant professor Yousif Hassan

Apr 24, 2024
Expert in AI, equity, and science and technology studies joins the facultyMy story has been shaped by many lived experiences at different events and places,” says Yousif Hassan, who, after seeing members of his family safely conveyed from war-torn Kh...
Hassan on AI, power, and decolonial possibility in Africa
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Bold AI policy proposals awarded at Ford + Munk case competition

Apr 22, 2024
 Fifty-one students engaged on pressing AI-related policy questions during this spring’s Ford+Munk case competition. Held annually, the Ford+Munk conference has students from the Ford School and the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affai...
Bold AI policy proposals awarded at Ford + Munk case competition
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A tale of two perspectives on innovation and global equity

Feb 13, 2024
Inclusive innovation—the idea of introducing technologies designed for and by the poor to boost economic growth in impoverished communities—often misses the real problems facing these communities and champions solutions that benefit entrepreneurs at ...
Shobita Parthasarathy’s “Expert Voices” column in Science: Beware the drive to scale technology
State & Hill

The Last Word: Molly Kleinman

Dec 12, 2023
Molly Kleinman (MSI ’07, PhD CSHPE ’18) joined the Ford School’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program in 2018 and became managing director in 2021. She received her STPP certificate in 2014 and served as Paul Courant’s special assist...
The Last Word: Molly Kleinman
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Parthasarathy named to prestigious French council

Dec 8, 2023
Ford School professor Shobita Parthasarathy has been named to the scientific council for ANSES, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety. ANSES is a public administrative body reporting to the Ministries of Health, t...
Shobita Parthasarathy’s “Expert Voices” column in Science: Beware the drive to scale technology
In the Media

"Appropriative" patents a long-term problem - Parthasarathy

Sep 1, 2023 NPR Planet Money
The way that a lot of pharmaceutical companies got their knowledge was often from going to other countries and finding out about Indigenous knowledge and then coming back and testing that. So there's a famous case of Eli Lilly patenting a treatment f...
The politics of inclusive innovation in international development: Menstrual hygiene management and sanitary pads in India
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Ford School welcomes Yousif Hassan as faculty

Aug 21, 2023
Yousif Hassan will join the Ford School faculty as an assistant professor in January 2024. Hassan’s work examines the social, economic, and political implications of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and data focusing on th...
Ford School welcomes Yousif Hassan as faculty
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STPP to explore best practice in community engagement

Aug 1, 2023
As technologists and scientists increasingly engage with communities in order to enhance the societal benefits of their work, and demonstrate its public value, it is important to ensure that such engagements benefit the people they claim to serve. Th...
STPP to explore best practice in community engagement