A professor of AI at Arizona State University for the past 33 years, Subbarao Kambhampati loves talking about LLMs. He compares them with toothpastes. “As much as I hate the analogy, AI is becoming like electricity. But we do not have a global electrical policy. We do not need that for AI as well.” Kambhampati’s research and views on AI’s societal impact have been featured in various media outlets. He writes a column for The Hill on AI's societal and policy implications.
He has served as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and founding board member of the Partnership on AI.
Kambhampati is currently interested in working with the human-AI interaction field, which deals with AI systems that should be able to explain the decisions to humans, instead of “silly saliency regions approaches where humans try to make sense of what machines are doing”.