Videos
Browse the videos below to see what we’ve been thinking about and working on.
SRI Seminar Series: 2025–26
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 2026 sessions:
Saffron Huang | “Beyond the benchmark”
January 14, 2026
Mamatha Bhat | “Multi-agentic AI in healthcare to guide objective decision-making”
February 11, 2026
Kyle Mahowald | “How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models”
March 25, 2026
Saadia Gabriel | “Human in the machine: Towards community-grounded AI reasoning”
January 21, 2026
Kate Larson | “Who decides what AI values? New frontiers in fair and diverse alignment”
February 25, 2025
Brad Knox | “Harmful traits of AI companions”
January 28, 2026
Joel Z. Leibo | “A pragmatic view of AI personhood”
March 4, 2026
Bruce Schneier | “Integrous systems design”
February 4, 2026
Zhijing Jin | “Emergent AI safety risks in multi-agent LLMs”
march 18, 2026
Fall 2025 sessions:
Anastasia Kuzminykh | “The power of discussion: Designing useful communication with AI agents”
October 1, 2025
Ryan Calo | “Law and technology: A methodical approach”
October 8, 2025
Peter Salib | “AI rights for human safety”
October 22, 2025
Lucy Suchman | “Closed worlds and the constitutive outsides of artificial intelligence”
November 5, 2025