What is the AI Opportunity Inventory?
The AI Opportunity Inventory is a multi-stakeholder initiative designed to identify, catalog, and analyze artificial intelligence use cases that have the potential to meaningfully contribute to major societal goals. Founded at the University of Texas School of Law’s AI Innovation and Law Program, the project has since expanded to include undergraduate and graduate students across the United States (and beyond!)
Who is this project open to?
Students at undergraduate and graduate institutions may formally join the Inventory and begin drafting memo ideas by filling out our interest form.
(If you represent an institution of learning and would like to advance the Opportunity Inventory onto your students, please contact us at ai@law.utexas.edu.)
And what are the memos for?
Inventory memos serve several purposes.
1. AI moves at a breakneck pace and is fundamentally reshaping our world. Often, it is difficult for policymakers and researchers to look past company press releases and hype to find concrete, verifiable, and positive public policy use cases.
2. With memos housed in a single inventory, we reach greater visibility for our mission. A memo is a bridge between raw submissions and vetted, actionable insights, helping decision-makers easily navigate the landscape of beneficial AI deployments no matter the field.
3. Students earn meaningful writing and editing experience with memos that sharpen their expertise in applied AI governance, sociopolitical and legal analysis, and technology policy research.
Do the memos cover only opportunities with existing implementations?
No! Students may write and edit memos on opportunities that do not yet have existing implementations.
I am with the Inventory. How can I submit a memo?
1. Navigate to the Inventory Assistant page
2. Verify your membership status in the header
3. Chat with our Claude-powered Assistant to brainstorm and create your first memo draft
(You will go through several stages, and the Assistant may be particularly fastidious–put yourself in the shoes of a junior researcher at a lab!)
4. When the Assistant approves your memo draft for human review, an Inventory Editor will take up your draft and refine it before publishing it to this site
(Editors may reach out to you to clarify some aspects of your draft, but we do not foresee such scenarios as particularly common.)
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6. Profit (in the form of a very cool memo!)