Johns Hopkins University and Amazon are teaming up to harness the power of artificial intelligence to transform the way humans interact online and with the world. The new JHU + Amazon Initiative for Interactive AI (AI2AI), housed in the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, will leverage the university’s world-class expertise in interactive AI to advance groundbreaking technologies in machine learning, computer vision, natural language understanding, and speech processing; democratize access to the benefits of AI innovations; and broaden participation in research from diverse, interdisciplinary scholars and other innovators.