You're invited: Help shape new Department of Technology, AI, and Society

January 17, 2025

Dear Stony Brook Faculty:

The university has been taking a number of bold steps toward enhancing Stony Brook’s position as a leader and innovator in AI. Today, we are pleased to invite you to be involved in an initiative that will re-envision our existing Department of Technology and Society as the Department of Technology, AI, and Society. 

Through this initiative, we seek to build the Department of Technology, AI, and Society (TAS) as a first-choice department for future leaders in the responsible shaping of the interface between artificial intelligence (AI) and society. The TAS department will build on Stony Brook’s role as a state flagship university and our strong commitment to social responsibility and interdisciplinary research. In the TAS department, the lens of equity and access will be central to a study of applications across the spectrum of our institution’s research and education missions.

To help develop the newly re-imagined TAS department, we are seeking faculty to serve on one of three working groups that will be charged with making recommendations pertaining to the department’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and its overall structure and governance.

We invite you to submit your name and an interest statement if you would like to be considered for any of the three working groups: 

• Governance and Structure Working Group – 10 members
• Undergraduate Curriculum Working Group – 12 members
• Graduate Curriculum Working Group – 12 members

If you are interested, or wish to nominate a colleague, please complete our brief form by the end of the day Friday, January 24.