AI is center stage.What part will you play?
At the Waters Institute, we believe every person has a meaningful
role in shaping the AI era.No one should be left in the audience.
What do we do?
We identify the big, hairy, unsolved problems in AI and then build solutions with people, not for them.
We're currently building...
The decisions shaping AI are being made in boardrooms and labs, far from the people they'll affect most. Gatewave is a civic listening initiative that captures what real communities actually think, feel, and need as AI reshapes their lives.
Through filmed conversations and public research, we ensure everyday voices are impossible to ignore. Because a future this important should belong to everyone
The Alignment Lab
Students are already using AI to learn, write, and complete their work, but few schools know what their community actually believes about it. Students, parents, faculty, and administrators each run on assumptions that rarely line up. That gap is most dangerous around academic integrity, where the conversation has narrowed to detection tools that are unreliable and bias-prone, while the real question, what honest work means in the AI era, goes unanswered. Schools are making high-stakes decisions in the dark.
Through honest data and genuine conversation, we show schools what their whole community actually believes about AI. Because no school should shape how a generation meets this technology while guessing what its people think.
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