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 ...
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 Seminar: Amanda McCroskery and Ben Zevenbergen – Moral Imagination in Technology Development
Incorporating ethics and responsibility explicitly into tech teams’ workflow meaningfully is an industry-wide challenge. However, if done well, it has the potential to transform which technologies are deployed in society, and how. We have found that technologists are generally eager to address the ethical and responsibility dimensions of their work ...
May 2023
CITP Seminar: Rishi Bommasani – The Societal Impact of Foundation Models
Foundation models (ChatGPT, StableDiffusion) are transforming society: remarkable capabilities, serious risks, rampant deployment, unprecedented adoption, overflowing funding, and unending controversy. In this talk, we will center our attention on their societal impact. In the first half, we will discuss two efforts ...
CITP Seminar: Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius – Digital Discrimination and the Law in Europe
Organizations can use computers or AI to make decisions about people: digital differentiation. For example, insurers can adjust prices to consumers, and the government can use AI-driven analysis to combat ...