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  • January 2024

  • Wed 10
    SRI seminar series: Pinar Yildirim

    SRI Seminar Series: Pinar Yildirim, “Automation, career values, and political preferences”

    January 10, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 17
    SRI Seminar Series: Elizabeth Joh

    SRI Seminar Series: Elizabeth Joh, “Computational research for equity in the legal system training program”

    January 17, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 24
    SRI seminar series: Lynette H. Ong

    SRI Seminar Series: Lynette H. Ong, “Authoritarian statecraft in the digital age”

    January 24, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 31
    SRI seminar series: Dylan Hadfield-Menell

    SRI Seminar Series: Dylan Hadfield-Menell, “You can’t have AI safety without inclusion”

    January 31, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • February 2024

  • Wed 7
    SRI seminar series: Norman Sadeh

    SRI Seminar Series: Norman Sadeh, “Privacy in the age of AI and the Internet of Things”

    February 7, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 14
    SRI seminar series: Jon Kleinberg

    SRI Seminar Series: Jon Kleinberg, “The challenge of understanding what users want: Inconsistent preferences and engagement optimization”

    February 14, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 28
    SRI seminar series: Vincent Contizer

    SRI Seminar Series: Vincent Conitzer, “Social choice and game theory for AI alignment”

    February 28, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • March 2024

  • Wed 6
    SRI seminar series: Rohan Alexander

    SRI Seminar Series: Rohan Alexander, University of Toronto

    March 6, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
    Rotman School of Management 95 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    U of T event

    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.

  • Wed 13
    SRI seminar series: Marlène Koffi

    SRI Seminar Series: Marlène Koffi, “Unlocking innovation: The use of natural language processing to uncover scientific bias”

    March 13, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
    U of T event

    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.

  • Wed 20
    SRI seminar series: Iason Gabriel

    SRI Seminar Series: Iason Gabriel, “The ethics of advanced AI assistants”

    March 20, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 27
    SRI seminar series: Ann Copestake

    SRI Seminar Series: Ann Copestake, “LLMs and the Information Layer”

    March 27, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • April 2024

  • Wed 3
    SRI seminar series: Luciano Floridi

    SRI Seminar Series: Luciano Floridi, “What is the impact of AI on democracy?”

    April 3, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • September 2024

  • Wed 18
    SRI Seminar Series: Terry Flew

    SRI Seminar Series: Terry Flew, “Trust and communication: The question of mediated trust”

    September 18, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 25
    SRI Seminar Series: Adam Kalai

    SRI Seminar Series: Adam Tauman Kalai, “When calibration goes awry: Hallucination in language models”

    September 25, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Adam Tauman Kalai, a technical staff member and research scientist at OpenAI working on AI safety and ethics.

  • October 2024

  • Wed 9
    SRI Seminar Series: Bree McEwan

    SRI Seminar Series: Bree McEwan, “Generating the metaverse: Musings on agents, authenticity, and artificial intelligence in virtual reality”

    October 9, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 16
    SRI Seminar Series: Roger Grosse

    SRI Seminar Series: Roger Grosse, “On the origin of rogue AI”

    October 16, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • Wed 23
    SRI seminar series: Laura Rosella

    SRI Seminar Series: Laura Rosella, “From development to deployment: Can we improve the health of populations with AI?”

    October 23, 2024, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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    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.

  • November 2024

  • Wed 6

    SRI Seminar Series: Rediet Abebe, “When does resource allocation require prediction?”

    November 6, 2024, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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    Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Rediet Abebe, a Harvard junior fellow and Andrew Carnegie fellow whose research examines the interaction of algorithms and inequality.

  • Wed 13

    SRI Seminar Series: Aziz Huq, “The geopolitics of digital regulation”

    November 13, 2024, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
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    Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Aziz Huq, a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law at the University of Chicago whose recent work concerns democratic backsliding and the regulation of AI.

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