Agentic AI: Governance, Society, and Institutions

Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Psychiatry

Digital and AI-based mental-health interventions; co-developed Tessa, an eating-disorder-prevention chatbot, and studies the guardrails needed to deploy such tools safely

Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences

Develops AI tools (large language models, speech and video models) for personality and mental-health assessment; fairness of AI assessment across racial groups; directs the Personality, Mental Health, and AI Lab

Associate Professor of Sociology

Computational text analysis, big data and causal inference; immigration and racial inequality

Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences

Reinforcement learning and computational models of decision-making and cognitive control; human behavior in AI training

Associate Professor of Political Science

Computational social science, algorithmic fairness, racial disparities in data

Professor of Political Science

Bayesian ML, computational social science, political communication, measurement

Associate Professor of Political Science

Computational social science, disinformation, NLP for political analysis

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Causal cognition, AI and decision science, algorithmic fairness (FAccT), formal epistemology; responsible AI research at Google Research

John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics

Labor economics; causal inference, structural estimation and semi-parametric models applied to inequality, human capital and labor markets

Nickerson Dean and Professor of Law

Empirical judicial politics; leads WashU Law's AI strategy and has written publicly on AI and the legal profession