Johns Hopkins University recently announced a major new investment in data science and the exploration of artificial intelligence, at the heart of which is a new Data Science and AI Institute. The institute is dedicated to the application, understanding, collection, and risks of data and the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems across a range of critical and emerging fields, from neuroscience and precision medicine to climate resilience and sustainability, public sector innovation, and the social sciences and humanities. Created to explore the vast potential of human collaboration with artificial intelligence to transform medicine, public health, engineering, patient care, and other disciplines, the Data Science and AI Institute is one of many critical are