Events

CITP Launch Event: Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Policy

Friend Center Friend Center Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States

This event will mark the launch of CITP’s initiative on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and public policy. The initiative will examine a range of policy issues raised by artificial intelligence, including how to ensure the application of AI is fair and governable; the impact of AI on the economy and jobs; how AI will affect free expression and human rights; how to increase the diversity of the AI workforce; effects of AI on security and privacy; and so on. This launch event will include introductions to these policy areas from Princeton experts, and roundtable discussions on how to address them.

CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: J. Nathan Matias – Governing Human and Machine Behavior in an Experimenting Society

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

In this talk, hear about the history and future of democratic social experimentation, from Kurt Lewin and Karl Popper to Donald Campbell. You’ll also hear about CivilServant, software that supports communities to conduct their own experiments in governing human and machine behavior online. Communities with up to tens of millions of people have used CivilServant to test effective responses for responding to human/algorithmic misinformation, managing the risks of AI-based policy enforcement, preventing harassment, resolving politically-partisan conflict, and changing the behavior of people who engage in hate speech online.

CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Sigrid Johannisse – The Digital Individual in Autonomous Space

Sherrerd Hall, 3rd floor open space Princeton, NJ, United States

Although the title sounds like a science fiction film, the speech addresses the possible consequences of the introduction of autonomous entities (from cars to machine learning by various data sets) into the space in which we live. Ms. Johannisse looks at the topic from the various backgrounds she has experienced in her career, like being an architecture historian who wrote a book about Dutch Expressionist Architecture to being the advisor of the Vice-President of the European Commission on the Digital Agenda (responsible for cyber security) and, at present, being the Counselor for Innovation, Tech and Science at the Netherlands Embassy in Washington. She will try to compare the Dutch/ European experiences and developments with the USA, especially concerning regulation.

Since everything in this field is “under construction”, she would also like to challenge the audience to give their input. The starting point of this discussion is: To be able to deal constructively with “autonomous” space, we need a multidisciplinary and inclusive approach, not a tech driven one. And if there is one place where all these disciplines come together at this moment, it is academia.

CITP on the Road: Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Policy

The National Press Club 529 14th Street NW, DC, United States

This event in Washington, DC describes the launch of CITP’s initiative on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and public policy. The initiative will examine a range of policy issues raised by artificial intelligence, including how to ensure the application of AI is fair and governable; the impact of AI on the economy and jobs; how AI will affect free expression and human rights; how to increase the diversity of the AI workforce; effects of AI on security and privacy; and so on. This event will include introductions to these policy areas from Princeton University experts, and discussion.