March 2023
CITP Seminar: Jakob Mökander – Auditing Large Language Models
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) represents a major advance in artificial intelligence (AI) research. However, the widespread use of LLMs is also coupled with significant ethical and social challenges. Previous research has pointed towards auditing ...
CITP Distinguished Lecture Series: Lorrie Cranor – Designing Usable and Useful Privacy Choice Interfaces
Users who wish to exercise privacy rights or make privacy choices must often rely on website or app user interfaces. However, too often, these user interfaces suffer from usability deficiencies ranging from being difficult to find, hard to understand, or ...
April 2023
CITP Seminar: Brooke Welles – #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice
The proliferation of social media has given rise to widespread study and speculation about the impact of digital technologies on politics, activism, and social change. Key among these debates is the role of social media in shaping the contemporary public sphere, and ...
CITP Lecture: Lydia Liu -Towards Responsible Machine Learning in Societal Systems
Machine learning systems are deployed in consequential domains such as education, employment, and credit, where decisions have profound effects on socioeconomic opportunity and life outcomes. High stakes decision settings present new statistical, ...
CITP Lecture: Amanda Coston – Responsible Machine Learning through the Lens of Causal Inference
Machine learning algorithms are widely used for decision making in societally high-stakes settings from child welfare and criminal justice to healthcare and consumer lending. Recent history has illuminated numerous examples where these algorithms proved unreliable ...