*The* ***SRI Seminar Series*** presents cutting-edge research on the social impacts of artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies, providing a unique opportunity to learn from leading experts in a wide range of fields and engage in discussions with the Schwartz Reisman Institute’s interdisciplinary community. Registration for all sessions is now open. Photo: Milad Fakurian/Unsplash.

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society's SRI Seminar Series returns for 2023 with an exciting slate of speakers and topics exploring the social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies, including large language models, cybersecurity and privacy, and automated decision-making systems.

Every Wednesday afternoon, participants can join leading experts to examine innovative new research at the intersection of technology and society. Registration is free for all, and seminars are archived for public access on SRI’s YouTube channel.

The 2023 series kicks off January 18th with a talk by Ethan Perez, who leads an AI safety research team at Anthropic and is a co-principal investigator in the AI Alignment Research Group at New York University. Perez will discuss the feasibility of evaluating large language models (LLMs) through processes generated by the models themselves, and how these methods can enable new discoveries. As systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT generate increased interest in how LLMs will reshape the ways in which we communicate and work together, it’s clear these models will be a game-changer for the use of AI systems.

On January 25th, SRI Research Lead Avi Goldfarb will present a special in-person seminar at U of T’s Rotman School of Management. Exploring insights from his new book, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard Business Review, 2022), Goldfarb will discuss how AI requires new strategies for decision-making—many of which have not yet been invented—in order to fully realize its potential.

*2023 SRI Seminar Series speakers (left to right, top to bottom):* ***Ethan Perez*** *(Anthropic),* ***Avi Goldfarb*** *(University of Toronto),* ***Jon Lindsay*** *(Georgia Tech),* ***Jonathon Penney*** *(York University),* ***Owain Evans*** *(Oxford Future of Humanity Institute),* ***Jennifer Raso*** *(McGill University),* ***Suresh Venkatasubramanian*** *(Brown University),* ***Ariel D. Stern*** *(Harvard Business School),* ***Kobbi Nissim*** *(Georgetown University),* ***David G. Rand*** *(MIT),* ***Sven Nyholm*** *(Utrecht University).*

Other upcoming SRI Seminar speakers include: Jon Lindsay (Georgia Institute of Technology), an expert on international relations, cybersecurity, and intelligence; Jonathon Penney (York University), who will examine the risks and impacts of automated legal enforcement on privacy and human rights; Owain Evans (Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University), who will discuss truthfulness in the context of large language models; Jennifer Raso (McGill University), who studies the relations between data-driven technologies and administrative law, and consequences for procedural fairness and substantive justice; Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University), an expert on the ethical and societal implications of AI and machine learning and co-author of the U.S.’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights; Ariel D. Stern (Harvard Business School) whose research focuses on technology management and innovation in healthcare; Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University), an expert in rigorous practices for privacy in computation; David G. Rand (MIT) whose research combines behavioural experiments with mathematical and computational models to understand people's attitudes, beliefs, and choices; and Sven Nyholm (Utrecht University), a philosopher of technology whose work focuses on applied ethics in the context of innovations such as self-driving cars and human enhancement.

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