USC will launch a new AI major this fall, as well as minors, designed for non-STEM students to learn to apply AI to disciplines like history and art. Narayanan, whose students have used SAIL research to launch mental health startups, said keeping this advanced tech safe means keeping humans in the loop from the early design phase. “For me, humans are at the center of everything, because this is for humans, by humans,” Narayanan said. He pointed to privacy being a concern his students are taught when working with large language models in their research. Narayanan stressed that AI has to have safeguards against these types of biases when working in the space of mental health and its accompanying research.