Human-AI Collaboration

Human-AI Collaboration is sponsored by Sloan Foundation. This program supports multidisciplinary research on human-AI interaction and prototyping of novel uses of AI systems to optimize collaboration between human researchers and emerging AI agents.

Menu[](https://sloan.

org/) Click to search the website # Scientific Collaboration * Click to expand this navigation menu Research * History of Science and Technology * Sloan Digital Sky Survey * Small-Scale Fundamental Physics * Click to expand this navigation menu Technology * Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology * Scientific Collaboration * Click to expand this navigation menu Public Understanding * Click to expand this navigation menu Completed Programs * Anytime, Anyplace Learning * Better Software for Science * Chemistry of Indoor Environments * Data & Computational Research * Deep Carbon Observatory * Information about Careers in Science and Technology * Making Municipal Governments More Responsive * Microbiology of the Built Environment * Professional Science Master's Degree * Scholarly Communication * Universal Access to Knowledge * Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families Sloan Research Fellowships * Commitment to Opportunity for All * Click to expand this navigation menu Press Room # Scientific Collaboration Click to search the website ## To develop technological tools and practices that help teams and communities of researchers be more creative and productive, independent of place and time.

[](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/scientific-collaboration) Technology platforms can enable geographically dispersed collaboration in configurations that mix remote and in-person, live and asynchronous, immersive, and even human and nonhuman interaction.

Given the climate, public health, and equity issues raised by needing to meet in-person, this program explores the ways that technology can enable or inhibit rich interactions at different scales across distance, time zones, and languages. [](https://sloan.

org/programs/digital-technology/scientific-collaboration) ### The Future of Conferences & Workshops A tremendous amount of generative interaction in science is enabled by field- and discipline-level convenings.

While technology platforms open up new opportunities for virtual and hybrid meetings, we are still in the early days of understanding how to recreate (or even expand on) the rich social practices that we have taken for granted in in-person meetings. Grants in this area aim to study these more ephemeral practices and develop prototypes that explore alternate forms of conference participation.

### Group Dynamics in Science Every collaborative interaction between researchers is mediated by some form of technology. From chalkboards to Slack to VR, tools enable researchers to generate new ideas and coordinate research activities.

Grants in this area aim to better understand the mutual shaping of collaboration tools and scientists, with a particular interest in immersive technologies that enable collaboration across geography and time. Our goal is to explore the potential for and effects of such technologies on research outcomes, and encourage continued experimentation by scientific teams with emerging digital platforms and immersive technologies.

### Human-AI Collaboration Recent developments in generative AI have inspired substantial excitement about applications to science, but taking full advantage of these applications will require a nuanced, empirically grounded understanding of how best to structure and optimize collaboration between human researchers and emerging AI agents.

Grants in this area support multidisciplinary research on human-AI interaction, as well as prototyping of novel uses of AI systems that move these insights into practice. [](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/scientific-collaboration) Interested grantseekers should email a letter of inquiry of no more than two pages to technology@sloan.

org. [](https://sloan. org/programs/digital-technology/scientific-collaboration) * Joshua M.

Greenberg Program Director * Sonali Chadha Program Coordinator * Devora Najjar Program Associate /programs/digital-technology/scientific-collaboration Program Goal To develop technological tools and practices that help teams and communities of researchers be more creative and productive, independent of place and time.

Strategy Technology platforms can enable geographically dispersed collaboration in configurations that mix remote and in-person, live and asynchronous, immersive, and even human and nonhuman interaction.

Given the climate, public health, an… * Click to expand this navigation menu Research * History of Science and Technology * Sloan Digital Sky Survey * Small-Scale Fundamental Physics * Click to expand this navigation menu Technology * Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology * Scientific Collaboration * Click to expand this navigation menu Public Understanding * Click to expand this navigation menu Completed Programs * Anytime, Anyplace Learning * Better Software for Science * Chemistry of Indoor Environments * Data & Computational Research * Deep Carbon Observatory * Information about Careers in Science and Technology * Making Municipal Governments More Responsive * Microbiology of the Built Environment * Professional Science Master's Degree * Scholarly Communication * Universal Access to Knowledge * Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families Sloan Research Fellowships * Commitment to Opportunity for All * Click to expand this navigation menu Press Room