Cornell AI Initiative

Name: Adapting to Climate Uncertainty through AI-Enabled Microbial System Design
Start: 2026-12-08T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-10T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

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About

Learn about the history of the initiative, its leadership, and what distinguishes Cornell.

Mission

Explore Cornell’s draft mission shaping responsible, human–centered AI.

AI @ Cornell

Healthy & Clinical Practice(external site)

Tools & Resources

Sustainability

Programs

Institutes, Initiatives & Centers

AI Innovation Hub(external site)

Thought Summits(external site)

EMPIRE AI(external site)

Student Groups

Minors & Courses

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For Faculty

For Staff

For Students

AI + Education

AI demands new knowledge, skills, and critical thinking. Cornell is committed to expanding AI literacy and to supporting the thoughtful, responsible use of AI in teaching and learning.

Teaching & Learning

AI + Research

AI is both a subject of inquiry — ranging from algorithms and machine learning to ethics and human-AI interaction — and a tool that advances scientific breakthroughs.

Research

AI + Working

Across campuses and units, teams are leveraging AI to improve administrative and operational effectiveness — reducing routine burdens and opening new avenues for creativity and collaboration.

Working

AI + Public Engagement

Cornell partners with communities and public institutions to advance the responsible development and use of AI, broaden AI literacy, and translate research into real-world impact.

Public Engagement

Artificial intelligence at Cornell is both a field of study and a powerful tool that influences how we conduct research, teach, and support the university.

Cornell’s approach to AI is rooted in the breadth of its scholarship and its leadership in AI research. Few institutions can match the combination of computing researchers developing foundational AI algorithms, social scientists examining AI’s impact on individuals and society, humanists grappling with ethics and creativity, policymakers and lawyers developing frameworks for society, and domain experts — from materials scientists to physicians to educational research — advancing learning and discovery in their fields through AI.

This depth and diversity enable Cornell to pursue a thoughtful approach to shape the future of responsible and impactful AI.

AI Headlines from Around the University

Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students

After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff.

Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images

A Cornell research group has devised a way to generate an image of multiple people, incorporating the poses of all individuals to inform the image generation and make the scene more believable and accurate.

Weak AI regulation may backfire, making products less safe

A new modeling study finds no regulation of AI products and services may be safer than weak regulation.

Inside baseball: AI-enabled enforcement tech takes time, testing

Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules – like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball – is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology.

‘Moonshot’ project aims to restore trust in the digital public sphere

Researchers have received a seed grant for $250,000 and a chance at a $10 million award to support a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to establish a foundation for trustworthy AI-mediated communication across online platforms.

AI Events and Symposia

Cornell’s campuses host a dynamic calendar of AI events, workshops, and symposiums that bring together experts, students, and practitioners from across disciplines. This cross‑campus programming reflects the full breadth and depth of AI exploration at Cornell, connecting foundational research with real‑world applications in science, health, policy, business, and design.

AI Events Calendar

Featured

Adapting to Climate Uncertainty through AI-Enabled Microbial System Design

December 8 – December 10

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

This Thought Summit will bring together leaders from AI, data science, microbiology, materials science, agriculture, architecture, and design to define a new vision for AI-enabled engineering of microbial systems.

Up Next

Dean’s AI Lecture Series: “Responsible AI in Healthcare: From RWE to Agentic Systems”

September 1 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Weill Cornell Medicine

This talk will focus on the arc from using longitudinal clinical data to generate real-world evidence, through predictive and generative AI, to agentic systems capable of acting across electronic health records, payer portals, and other operational infrastructure.

AI + Sustainability

AI has the potential to make important contributions to sustainability research, from climate change to food security, while also introducing new and pressing challenges to sustainability itself.

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The AI Campus for NYC

AI + Cornell Tech

Transforming Healthcare With AI

AI + Weill Cornell Medicine

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Working on a large-scale, multi-PI, or cross-disciplinary AI project?

Join our office hours Thursdays at 10 a.m. ET to share your ideas and explore how the Cornell AI Initiative can support you — from connecting collaborators and shaping teams to research development and proposal strategy. For more information, contact Research Development Director, Jovana Savanovic.

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