What the program is

The 2026 program is a fall program and is currently in session.

AI4ALL is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence.

The UW program was created to increase diversity and inclusion in artificial intelligence and make the AI4ALL curriculum accessible. An earlier version of the program focused its UW camp on including students with disabilities.

Our specific AI4ALL instance aims to increase diversity and inclusion in AI by making all AI4ALL curriculum accessible. The program continues to prioritize inclusion of students with disabilities each year. Applications for each program year are announced on the application page.

Our reimagining of what a non-ableist AI High School Program should look like is now called “Responsible Data Science and AI for Urban Good”. Students meet once a week during the program, then continue during the school year to work on personal projects. The program is free.

TCAT’s role

Through 2022, the UW instance was an AI4ALL-sanctioned program run under the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology (TCAT), an initiative of the UW Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. In December 2022, the national AI4ALL organization paused its financial and administrative support for 2023 summer programs. Without the national organization’s support or branding, TCAT took the program forward on its own: it redesigned the model with a research focus and continues to run the UW program today.

Program history

1. Through 2022: The UW instance operated as an AI4ALL-sanctioned program under TCAT and the Allen School.
2. December 2022: The national AI4ALL organization decided to pause its financial and administrative support for 2023 Summer Programs.
3. Summer 2023: The UW program changed its model after national summer funding ended and continued as a research-focused program led by TCAT.
4. Earlier camp model: A UW AI4ALL camp focused on including students with disabilities.
5. 2025: The program held its first fall offering under the Responsible Data Science for Urban Spaces model. 2025 was the inaugural fall program under the new model; applications were due by July 31, 2025 and the program began in September 2025.

Our specific UW-based program is dedicated to sustainable impact. Over a four-year period, the UW program tested two models to improve student impact for each funding dollar. Its operating model changed during COVID and changed again in 2023.

Institute for Foundations of Data Science

UW faculty and colleagues from the Institute for Foundations of Data Science, or IFDS, helped teach the program in multiple years.

IFDS is funded by the National Science Foundation and brings together researchers in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and engineering. Its work is organized around complexity, robustness, closed-loop data science, and ethics and algorithms.

Data science and AI are making an enormous impact on science and society, but its success has also uncovered pressing new challenges: Outcomes and decisions arising from data science processes are not robust to errors and corrupted data; algorithms can unintentionally yield biased and unfair outcomes; and new methods are needed for learning in dynamic, interactive, and adversarial environments. Only by an appeal to the foundations of data science can we understand and address these challenges.

By making concerted progress on these fundamental fronts, IFDS aims to lower the barriers to better understanding of data science methodology.

Webpage: ifds.info

Contact

Questions about UW AI4ALL can be sent to ai4all@cs.washington.edu.