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February 18 – Social Movements, Protests, and Technology, led by Shaanan Cohney
March 3 – AI and Facial Recognition on College Campuses
March 24 – Disinformation, led by Sergey Sanovitch
April 7 – Privacy and Power, led by Ari Ezra Waldman
April 21 – AI and the Future of Work Case Studies, led by Tithi Chattopadhyay
Fall 2019
September 24 – Discussion regarding ethical and policy questions around data brokers, including the proposed Data Broker List Act of 2019.
October 8 – Competition and Big Tech, hosted by Mihir Kshirsagar.
October 22 – Dr. Seth Lazar will join us for a discussion of his scholarship on the social value of explanation in AI.
November 5 – Smart Cities
November 19 – Dr. Finn Brunton will join us to discuss his book Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.
December 3 – Privacy, Surveillance, and Data Governance in Education