ASSET Center for Trustworthy AI

AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable & Trustworthy

Our research focus is on science and tools for developing AI-enabled systems so that designers can guarantee that they are doing what they designed them to do and users can trust them to do what they expect them to do. 

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Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests

Using AI to help predict cardiac arrests A Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine team built...

Twelve ASSET Center Ph.D. Students Named 2026 AWS Fellows

Twelve ASSET Center Ph.D. Students Named 2026 AWS Fellows Through the ASSET (AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable...

Upcoming Events

September 2026
Sep 23
23 September 2026
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414,
3333 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, 19104 United States
Abstract: Modern AI systems offer impressive predictive abilities, but often struggle to provide reliable uncertainty estimates. This challenge arises when the distribution of new inputs differs from that seen during training, for example when broadly pretrained models are adapted to specialized downstream tasks. Classical Bayesian models provide a principled framework...
Sep 30
30 September 2026
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 414,
3333 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, 19104 United States
Abstract: In this talk, we take the position that agent security must be approached as a systems problem: the AI model powering the agent must be treated as an untrusted component, and security invariants must be enforced at the system level. Through this lens, efforts to increase model robustness (the...