Social sciences
Project Volano
Enabling everyone to shape AI Project Volano is carrying out cross-disciplinary research to understand how we can value and utilize community perspectives throughout the whole of the AI pipeline. Our first use case is to…
What if AI systems weren’t chatbots?
Global AI Value Challenge
AI systems are increasingly used in science, technology, and everyday decision-making. But a harder problem is often overlooked: when an honesty conflicts with kindness, how should an AI system respond? In situations with limited or…
Research Intern – Socio-Technical Workflow Analysis
Within Microsoft Research, we are looking at how teams get real work done across research, engineering, and program management. That includes how people plan projects, analyze results, share information, and stay aligned across groups. This…
New Future of Work: AI is driving rapid change, uneven benefits
For the past five years, the New Future of Work report has captured how work is changing. This year, the shift feels especially sharp. Previous editions have focused on technology’s role in increasing productivity by…
