For the past three summers, around two dozen would-be computer scientists have come to Stanford University to learn about artificial intelligence from some of the field's brightest. The attendees, culled from hundreds of applicants, take day trips to nearby tech companies, interact with social robots and hexacopters, and learn about computational linguistics (what machines do when words have multiple meanings, say) and the importance of time management (very). But if your mental picture of AI is a bunch of guys creating wilier enemies for their favorite videogames, well, this isn't that. All the students here at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory's Outreach Summer (SAILORS) program are girls who have just completed ninth grade, and their studies focus on finding ways to improve lives, not enhance their game play: How do we use AI to keep jumbo jets from careening into one another? To ensure that doctors wash their hands before hitting the OR? "Our goal was to rethink AI education in a way that encourages diversity and students from all walks of life," says Fei-Fei Li, director of Stanford's AI lab and a founder of the SAILORS program.