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SRI Seminar Series: 2024–25

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.

Winter 2025 sessions:

Christopher Summerfield | “The Habermas Machine: Using AI to help people find common ground”
January 15, 2025

Virginia Dignum | “Beyond the AI hype: Balancing innovation and social responsibility”
January 22, 2025

Rahul G. Krishnan | “From associational to causal predictions with deep learning”
January 29, 2025

Pamela Samuelson | “Will copyright derail generative AI technologies?”
February 5, 2025

Catherine Stinson | “Artificial intelligence benchmarks and degenerating research”
February 12, 2025

Fall 2024 sessions:

Terry Flew | “Trust and communication: The question of mediated trust”
September 18, 2024

Adam Tauman Kalai | “When calibration goes awry: Hallucination in language models”
September 25, 2024

Bree McEwan | “Generating the metaverse: Musings on agents, authenticity, and AI in virtual reality”
October 9, 2024

Roger Grosse | “On the origin of rogue AI”
October 16, 2024

Laura Rosella | “From development to deployment: Can we improve the health of populations with AI?”
October 23, 2024

Rediet Abebe | “When does resource allocation require prediction?”
November 6, 2024

Aziz Huq | “The geopolitics of digital regulation”
November 13, 2024

Henry Shevlin | “All too human? Identifying and mitigating ethical risks of Social AI”
November 20, 2024