SRI Seminar Series: Lynette H. Ong, “Authoritarian statecraft in the digital age”
In this talk, Lynette H. Ong will examine how digital technologies have enabled new forms of control for autocratic governments to co-opt and repress dissent.
In this talk, Lynette H. Ong will examine how digital technologies have enabled new forms of control for autocratic governments to co-opt and repress dissent.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Dylan Hadfield-Menell, the Bonnie and Marty Tenenbaum Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellow.
In this talk, Norman Sadeh will present his recent research exploring how to overcome privacy challenges associated with contemporary data collection practices, and will describe some practical solutions aimed at empowering people to regain control over their data.
In this talk, Jon Kleinberg proposes a revised method for online platforms to optimize user experience and he will explore new insights regarding interactions between design, behavioural science, and social media.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Vincent Conitzer, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He works on artificial intelligence, including the intersections between AI and game theory, and AI and ethics.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Rohan Alexander for a special in-person talk that will also be broadcast online. Alexander’s research investigates how to develop workflows that improve the trustworthiness of data science.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Marlène Koffi, an assistant professor in economics at the University of Toronto, and a faculty affiliate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Iason Gabriel, a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind whose work focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, including questions about AI value alignment, distributive justice, language ethics and human rights.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Ann Copestake, a professor of computational linguistics at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Her research involves developing computer models of human languages.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Luciano Floridi, founding director of the Digital Ethics Center and professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Terry Flew, professor of digital communication and culture at the University of Sydney and the author of 16 books on the governance of digital media platforms.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Adam Tauman Kalai, a technical staff member and research scientist at OpenAI working on AI safety and ethics.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Bree McEwan, an associate professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, an associate director at the Data Sciences Institute, and a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Roger Grosse. His research focuses on better understanding neural net training dynamics, with his current work exploring how understandings of deep learning can be applied to generate safe and aligned AI systems.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Laura Rosella. Her research explores how population-based risk assessment tools like AI technologies can better support public health planning and public health policy.