He then joined the faculty of Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor.

[citation needed] Stone co-authored the papers that first proposed the robot soccer challenges around which Robocup was founded.

[6][7] The report argued that AI won't automatically replace human workers, but rather, will supplement the workforce and create new jobs in tech maintenance.

[10][11] He serves as the Director of Texas Robotics and was a co-founder of The UT Austin Good Systems initiative on Ethical AI.

[12] In February of 2022, he co-authored a paper that appeared on the cover of Nature entitled Outracing champion Gran Turismo drivers with deep reinforcement learning, which reported on the creation of GT Sophy, a superhuman driving agent in Gran Turismo that was subsequently released into the video game.