AI Research
Where Gen Z Voices Investigate AI's Biggest Challenges and Create Impact
Fundamental Research Areas
iFp students conduct original research investigating how AI impacts real lives—from algorithmic bias to environmental costs, from creative threats to privacy risks. This isn't research for research's sake: student findings become educational resources, inform advocacy, and demonstrate that youth voices don't just belong in AI conversations—they can lead them.
Bias and Fairness
Is AI Destroying the Planet? (Coming Soon)
AI and Mental Health (Coming Soon)
Deepfakes and Disinformation (Coming Soon)
AHA Moments in AI - From Research to AI Literacy
AHA Moments in AI began as fundamental student research investigating AI's real-world impacts—from algorithmic bias in facial recognition to barriers preventing equitable access to AI tools. As students dove deeper into questions about who builds AI, who benefits, and whose voices get excluded, they discovered something powerful: their findings needed to be brought into classrooms where young people were encountering AI without the critical thinking tools to question it.
What started as research became a mission to create educational resources for us, by us. The result is a five-video series selected for presentation at NeurIPS 2024, one of the world's premier AI conferences (1 of 54 projects chosen from thousands worldwide).
Each short video covering topics from racial bias in facial recognition to creativity under threat pairs youth perspectives with discussion questions, enabling any educator to facilitate meaningful AI conversations without prior expertise.
iFp researchers didn't just contribute to academic discourse; they created accessible tools empowering the next generation to recognize themselves not as passive consumers of technology, but as future architects of a more equitable AI ecosystem.