About

Welcome! We are a research group based at Dartmouth College's Department of Computer Science in beautiful Hanover, New Hampshire.

Our lab studies the first-mile and last-mile problems of AI systems (e.g. agents) in human environments.

The first mile is about understanding AI systems themselves. We draw on techniques from behavioral evaluation, interpretability (e.g. mechanistic), and representation learning to build better tools for reasoning about these systems.

The last mile is about deployment: how AI systems behave in real workflows, under real incentives, and in open-ended human settings. Our aim is to make these systems more robust and beneficial under the pressures of actual use.

We treat this as both a scientific and a design problem. Scientifically, we want to understand how human-AI systems work. From a design perspective, we want to shape how they interact with people in practice. We call this dual focus the science and art of human-AI systems.

Our work is domain-general, with current applied efforts in areas like creativity, music, healthcare, and decision-making.

Keywords: Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Behavior, Creativity, Generative Models, Interactive Systems, Interpretability, Steerability, Human-AI Collaboration, Augmented Intelligence, Cognitive Tools, Human-Centered AI, Human-AI Co-Evolution, Human-in-the-Loop Systems

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