Events

CITP Seminar: Keyon Vafa – Decomposing Wage Gaps with a Foundation Model of Labor History

Bendheim House, 26 Prospect Ave.

Social scientists frequently perform statistical decompositions of wage gaps, attributing group differences in wages to group differences in worker characteristics. Since the survey datasets used to estimate these decompositions are small, the included characteristics are typically low-dimensional, e.g. summary statistics about job history. These low-dimensional summaries risk ...

Workshop on Useful and Reliable AI Agents

Virtual

AI agents have become an active area of research. But to be useful in the real world and at scale, agents need to be accurate, reliable, and cheap. Learn how to do that in this workshop.

CITP Seminar: Arvind Narayanan – Science for Policy and Policy for Science

306 Sherrerd Hall

Policy making should be informed by evidence, especially scientific evidence. But exactly how is a surprisingly tricky question. In this talk Narayanan will take a close look at the science-policy interface: how it works and how it should work. The talk will diagnose structural reasons why he believes ...

CITP Seminar: Meredith Ringel Morris – AGI is Coming… Is HCI Ready?

306 Sherrerd Hall

We are at a transformational junction in computing, in the midst of an explosion in capabilities of foundational AI models that may soon match or exceed typical human abilities for a wide variety of cognitive tasks, a milestone often termed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Achieving AGI ...