ITS
Information Technology Services
In this talk, Aaron Hertzmann will discuss how these developments parallel the development of previous artistic technologies, like oil paint, photography, and traditional computer graphics, with many useful analogies between past and current developments.
In this talk, Shion Guha will explore how predictive risk models are used in government agencies, deconstructing and interrogating what “risk” actually means in these systems and providing provocative directions for how to move beyond existing approaches.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Salomé Viljoen, an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School who studies the information economy, the social impacts of automation, and how legal structures can impact inequality.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Marzieh Fadaee, a senior research scientist at Cohere For AI, a non-profit research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems and create more points of entry into machine learning research.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Regina Rini, an associate professor of philosophy at York University, and a Canada Research Chair in Social and Moral Cognition. Her research background is in moral psychology, ethical theory, and neuroscience.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Arvind Narayanan, a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Tawanna Dillahunt, an associate professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information whose research spans human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing fields, including environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Luke Stark, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University, who researches the ethical, historical, and social impacts of computational technologies.
In this talk, Pinar Yildirim will explore how automation has impacted the US labour market, demonstrating that robotization is contributing to a loss of average local labour market career values, and that these changes have repercussions for investment in public infrastructure and political affiliations.
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Elizabeth Joh, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, and a leading expert on policing, privacy, and technology.
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.
