Knowledge Lab

In the News

Science of Science & Innovation

Science of Science & Innovation

Knowledge hosts annual Innovation Conference at the National Academies in DC

Trends in AI

Trends in AI

James Evans discusses the unfolding future of AI in 2024 on ProMarket

Wendy Schmidt Award

Wendy Schmidt Award

Wendy Schmidt receives Science of Science Policy Leadership Award

Robot Scientists

Robot Scientists

Hypotheses devised by AI could find ‘blind spots’ in research

Science Slowing Down

Science Slowing Down

Is Scientific Progress Slowing?

Mapping Global Meanings

Mapping Global Meanings

Molly Lewis and James Evans explore the organization of meanings across the globe

AI as Alien Intelligence

AI as Alien Intelligence

James Evans makes the case for Alien AI in Chicago TEDx talk

Knowledge underlies society’s potential to adapt, innovate, and flourish. Artificial intelligence and the explosion of digital information offer unprecedented opportunities to study, model, and transform the nature of human and post-human understanding, from its emergence in discovery and invention to its realization in innovation and growth. Knowledge Lab develops novel artificial intelligence, big data, and crowdsourced approaches to:

  • Discover, harvest, and represent knowledge from humans, artifacts, and machines

  • Understand how knowledge is constructed, deployed, and destroyed

  • Recombine and generate new knowledge for new problems

  • Improve knowledge creation, management and innovation…everywhere.

Featured Initiatives

Computational Creativity

Computational Creativity

Can algorithms be truly creative?
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Global Innovation Observatory

Global Innovation Observatory

How can we use AI and big data improve our awareness of worldwide investment production position and trajectory in science and technology (S&T)?
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AI Societies

AI Societies

How can we harness the emergent creativity of AI collectives?
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Digital Minds

Digital Minds

Can we shine light into the 'black box' to better understand how AIs think?
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Complementary AI

Complementary AI

Can we build AI that augments rather than replaces human capacity?
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$20M

Knowledge Lab was recently awarded $20 million by NSF Assessing and Predicting Technology Outcomes (APTO)

100+

Knowledge Lab has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in top journals across disciplines

10,000+

Knowledge Lab publications have been cited more than 10,000 times in academic literature.

50+

More than 50 research affiliates contribute to the projects conducted at Knowledge Lab.

Supported by

US National Science Foundation
National Institute of Health
AFOSOR
DARPA
Novo Nordisk
John Templeton
Alfred P. Sloan
Microsfot
Meta
Open Philanthropy
Melon Foundation
Minerva

Partner

Data Science Institute UChicago
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Santa Fe Institute
Complexity Lab
Computational Social Science
Allen Institute for AI
Max Planck
SICSS