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SRI Seminar Series: 2022–23

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 2022 sessions:

Julie Shah | “Human-machine partnerships and work of the future”
September 14, 2022

C. Thi Nguyen | “Transparency is surveillance”
September 21, 2022

Moshe Vardi | “How to be an ethical computer scientist”
September 28, 2022

Priya L. Donti | “Tackling climate change with machine learning”
October 5, 2022

Barbara Grosz | “Fostering responsible computing research”
October 12, 2022

Gillian Hadfield | “Judging facts, judging norms: Training ML models to judge humans requires a new approach to labelling data”
October 19, 2022

Michael Bernstein | “Designing artificial intelligence to navigate societal disagreement”
October 26, 2022

Milind Tambe | “AI for social impact: Results from deployments for public health and conservation”
November 2, 2022

Katie Shilton | “Designing for trust in health research with pervasive data”
November 16, 2022

Talia Gillis | “On the fairness of machine-assisted human decisions”
December 7, 2022

Winter 2023 sessions:

Ethan Perez (Anthropic) | “Discovering language model behaviors with model-written evaluations”
January 18, 2023

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto) | “Power and prediction: The disruptive economics of artificial intelligence”
January 25, 2023

Jon Lindsay (Georgia Tech) | “Age of deception: The paradox of cooperative conflict in cyberspace
February 1, 2023

Jonathon Penney (York University) | “Chilling effects and the future automated legal enforcement”
February 8, 2023

Owain Evans (Oxford University) | “Truthful language models and AI alignment”
February 15, 2023

Jennifer Raso (McGill University) | “Concentrated power, diffused agency: The effects of digitalized border administration”
March 1, 2023

Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) | “The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights: Why, what, how, and what next?”
March 8, 2023

Ariel D. Stern (Harvard Business School) | “The digital revolution in health care: Challenges, opportunities, and the need for policy innovation”
March 15, 2023

Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University) | “Do machine learning systems meet the requirements of legal privacy standards?”
March 22, 2023

David G. Rand (MIT) | “How polarization can help solve the misinformation problem”
March 29, 2023

Sven Nyholm (University of Munich) | “AI, responsibility gaps, and asymmetries between praise and blame”
April 5, 2023