Knowledge Lab

Featured Initiatives at Knowledge Lab

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)?

Complementary AI

Complementary AI

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

Innovation Policy Lab

Innovation Policy Lab

How can we use AI to construct a virtual laboratory that simulates policy outcomes for S&T innovation and competitiveness?

Modeling Cultural Worlds

Modeling Cultural Worlds

AI systems build models of the social cultural and language world. What can we learn from them?

AI Societies

AI Societies

How can we harness the emergent creativity of AI collectives?

Computational Creativity

Computational Creativity

How do we build AI that’s creative and augments human creativity?

Digital Minds

Digital Minds

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

Science<sup>2</sup>

Science2

How can science about the scientific process improve the rate, character, and capacity of knowledge about the world?

Existential Epistemology

Existential Epistemology

In order to anticipate and ensure humanity’s flourishing and long future what new forms of knowledge will we need to explore?

$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.

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.

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