Chirag Shah, a 91̽»¨professor in the Information School, discusses what AI agents are and what might impede a near future where people can simply get AI bots to shop for them.


Chirag Shah, a 91̽»¨professor in the Information School, discusses what AI agents are and what might impede a near future where people can simply get AI bots to shop for them.

In a new perspective paper, 91̽»¨ professors Emily M. Bender and Chirag Shah respond to proposals that reimagine web search as an application for large language model-driven conversation agents.

91̽»¨researchers showed that image search results for four major search engines from around the world, including Google, still reflect gender bias.

Recent honors to 91̽»¨faculty and staff have come from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, the Freeman Foundation and the IEEE.