SRI Seminar Series

Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Jon Lindsay, an associate professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and a courtesy appointment in the School of Public Policy.

In this talk, Penney will explore how rapid technological developments are leading to the automation of legal enforcement, generating serious risks for privacy and human rights. Amidst a lack of guidance for lawmakers and policymakers grappling with these issues, Penney will consider theoretical and empirical research on the social impacts of these technologies, and the shortcomings of typical solutions such as regulation and human oversight.

In this talk, Evans will present recent work on defining and measuring “truthfulness” in the context of large language models, including their calibration, and their ability to forecast world events. These topics will be considered in relation to the reduction of epistemic harms from AI and the problem of value alignment in the context of artificial general intelligence.

In this session, Raso explores how technologies that administer border and immigration policies construct another equally important, but less explored, subject: state agency. Drawing on a recent example from Canada, Raso demonstrates how digitalization simultaneously concentrates state power while diffusing agency, reflecting on what this means for legal accountability mechanisms and decision-making.