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SRI Seminar Series: 2021–22

The SRI Seminar Series brings together the Schwartz Reisman community and beyond for a robust exchange of ideas that advance scholarship at the intersection of technology and society. Seminars are led by a leading or emerging scholar and feature extensive discussion. Each week, a featured speaker presents for 45 minutes, followed by an open discussion.

Fall 2021 sessions:

Roger Grosse | “How can deep learning research inform long-term AI safety?”
September 15, 2021

Avinash (Avi) Collis | “Quantifying the user value of social media data”
September 22, 2021

Boris Babic | “The case against explainable artificial intelligence and machine learning”
September 29, 2021

Lisa Austin | “Why we should regulate info about persons, not 'personally identifiable information’”
October 6, 2021

Jason Plaks | “R2D2 vs. HAL 9000: Psychological features of robots that encourage—and discourage—human trust”
October 13, 2021

Kelly Lyons | “Evaluating the future of skills, jobs, and policies for the post-COVID digital economy”
October 20, 2021

Nicola Lacetera | “Social support for markets and ‘just prices’”
October 27, 2021

David Duvenaud | “Explaining decisions by generating counterfactuals”
November 3, 2021

Chris Maddison | “The future of representation learning”
November 17, 2021

Marsha Chechik | “On safety, assurance and reliability: A software engineering perspective”
November 24, 2021

Sheila McIlraith | “Can ‘being considerate’ lead to safer AI?”
December 1, 2021

Rosalie Wang | “The future of our everyday lives: Older adults, caregivers, and AI-enabled health and social care”
December 8, 2021

Winter 2022 sessions:

Richard Watson | “An antidote to Universal Darwinism”
January 19, 2022

Michelle Alexopoulos | “It’s not just what they, say but how they say it! Using AI to understand the impact of policy statements on markets”
January 26, 2022

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed | “Whose intelligence? Whose ethics?: Ethical pluralism and decolonizing AI”
February 2, 2022

Taylor Owen | “Evaluating the state of the Platform Governance agenda”
February 9, 2022

Kevin Fu | “Security engineering for medical products: Sensors, signals, semiconductors, software systems”
February 16, 2022

Anna Su | “A constitution for the digital age? Some notes on the field”
March 9, 2022

Ariel Procaccia | “Democracy and the pursuit of randomness”
March 16, 2022

Julia Haas | “The evaluative mind”
March 23, 2022

Marion Fourcade | “Rationalized stratification”
April 2, 2022