What is AI Infrastructure and How Does the Social Sector Build it?

In this session co-presented by Digital Promise and DrivenData, we will talk about what it means to build AI infrastructure in a particular social sector. It will be a case study for the theory behind a program we have just launched that will fund AI infrastructure for K-12 education. It is focused on how to build infrastructure that improves AI for a particular domain, through investments in data, models, and benchmarks. It will cover how this is different from investments in AI capacity (ability to use existing AI tools) and AI progress (such as compute infrastructure). We will talk about how and why education is a good domain for this initiative and what other domains should consider for their own education infrastructure.