Trustworthy AI
The Trustworthy AI: From Theory to Implementation Grand Challenge will develop AI systems that are provably trustworthy by formal methods as well as practically trustworthy by AI developers, deployers, users, and consumers in real-world contexts. This Grand Challenge will convene an interdisciplinary team from multiple UNM colleges including Engineering, Arts & Sciences, Law, Health Sciences Center, and Organization, Information & Learning Sciences, to develop a research program that creates mathematically and practically trustworthy AI. Our research will also establish processes and procedures that practitioners in the field can use to assess, evaluate, and iteratively improve trustworthiness, particularly in the resource-limited circumstances in which AI will often be deployed.
Conveners
Melanie Moses, Computer Science
Sonia Gipson Rankin, Law
Grace Faustino, Office of the Vice President for Research / Organization, Information and Learning Sciences
Pavithra Prabhakar, Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences
Members
Kathy Powers, Political Science
Claus Danielson, Mechanical Engineering
Manel Martinez-Ramon, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Meeko Oishi, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephanie Moore, OILS
Belinda Wallace, English
Fan Xu, Ed Leadership
Tryoheenia Peele-Eady, Africana Studies
Eva Rodriguez Gonzalez, Spanish Portuguese
Timothy Ozekowski, HSC
Christopher I Amos, HSC
Avinash D Sahu, HSC
Sarah Dreier, Political Science
Alexander Webb, SAAP
Abdullah Mueen, Computer Science
Research Questions
The Trustworthy AI team will research ways to bridge the gap between between AI that is trustworthy in theoretical models to AI that can be trusted when trained with noisy data and deployed in real-world circumstances. We will research solutions to hallucinations and inaccuracies that limit the promise of broadly deployed AI systems to benefit science and society, and we will develop approaches to meaningfully asses trustworthiness of AI systems deployed in real-world contexts.
Contact
If you are conducting research in developing or applying Trustworthy AI in any discipline, please contact us to join our team.
Email: Grand Challenges
Visit trustworthyai.unm.edu for additional information.
News
2/24/26 Steering committee to guide ethical, strategic AI use at UNM
12/1-12/2/25: From Machines to Mesas: New Mexico's AI Summit
Members of UNM’s Trustworthy AI team will participate and lead sessions at New Mexico’s AI Summit at Central New Mexico's (CNM) campus on Monday, December 1 from 8:30 am - 5 pm and Tuesday, December 2, from 2 - 5pm. The event is hosted by Representative Linda Serrato of Santa Fe.
Register here.
8/14/25 UNM to partner with NSF & NVIDIA in developing a set of open-source artificial intelligence models
8/6/25 UNM joins Brown University in national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants
