VESTAL, N.Y. — Binghamton University will establish an Institute for AI and Society, according to BingUNews, the college’s online news outlet.
The university is one of eight SUNY campuses that will share in $5 million in state funding to develop departments, centers, and institutes of AI and Society to engage diverse disciplines and communities, broaden AI development to prepare students, and advance the use of AI for the public good, Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a separate release.
Binghamton University is researching large language models and antisemitism on social media to identify hateful content and creating three-dimensional foundation models for high-throughput characterization of metal-organic frameworks for climate-change applications.
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“I’m proud to see New York leveraging the power of Binghamton University’s expert faculty in striving to make the state a leader in artificial intelligence,” President Harvey Stenger told BingUNews. “The university’s researchers are already doing tremendous work in AI. By sharing resources across the state, we’re going to solve real-world problems and create new opportunities in economic development and academic research.”
Binghamton University will utilize Empire AI, a consortium of public and private universities across the state building an artificial intelligence computing center at the University at Buffalo. Scheduled to open in 2025, Empire AI launched “phase alpha,” a smaller version of the final supercomputer, last October.
Associate Professor Jeremy Blackburn will serve as the director of Binghamton University’s Institute for AI and Society.
“My research can now be done at a speed I would never had access to before,” Blackburn said. “Previously, it would take nearly 20 years to run our experiments on even a sample of the billions of social media data points we collect yearly.”
Pooled resources from other colleges and the state will allow research to be completed in weeks.
The University at Albany, University at Buffalo, SUNY Downstate, SUNY ESF, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Stony Brook University, and Upstate Medical University will also share in the state funding.
