Information plays a pivotal role for the good of society. However, we live in an information environment where the lines between true and false, and interest-driven and balanced content are blurred. This, coupled with the constant information overload, places enormous demands on people. With the United Nations having declared the information situation around the Corona […]
In the last few years, at least eight states have passed eviction record sealing laws, and eviction sealing legislation is being considered in several other cities and states across the country. These laws protect tenants by limiting the ability of tenant screening companies to access eviction filing data and sell it to landlords, locking tenants - even […]
LIVESTREAM HERE: Please RSVP for this hybrid event. Please join us on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 3:45pm for a discussion between Monika Bickert, Vice President for Content Policy at Meta, and Sue Hendrickson, Berkman Klein Center Executive Director. From the changing scope of content moderation to platform governance writ large, this chat is designed to […]
The Critical Digital Studies Group is hosting its first guest speaker event with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland).From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in Studying Black Women & TechnologyThis event is possible thanks to the support of the Gender, Race, Indigeneity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies (GRIDS) initiative and the […]
Human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence generally refers to AI where humans are involved at various points throughout the research, design, training, testing or decision making process. During this conference, we hope to challenge participants to rethink this phrase and consider a future where humans remain at the center of all AI technologies. AI should effectively communicate and […]
Can AI be a Force for Global Public Health? From the Covid-19 pandemic to more recent outbreaks of Monkeypox and Poliovirus, wastewater surveillance technologies and their data have demonstrated the potential to become supporting tools used in steering states and governmental efforts worldwide, in predicting and tracking disease outbreaks. These tools are also being used […]
Join CDT, CLASP, and I Vote for Me for a conversation on how monitoring programs increase disciplinary action and law enforcement contact. Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 2 PM – 3 PM EST ** Recording here. In recent years, a number of stories have come out related to how student activity monitoring has been used […]
Reproductive rights activists in Latin America have long fought for reproductive freedom, including some significant battles won. With the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the US, the “green wave” — a color associated with the movement for safe and legal abortion that started in Argentina and spread to the rest of the continent […]
Join METRO's Director of Programs and Partnerships, Davis Erin Anderson, for a conversation with Sarah Lamdan about Lamdan's new book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information. About the book:In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Lamdan […]
Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing […]
INFORMED brings together key leaders and experts to engage around the biggest questions at the intersection of technology, media, and democracy. Presented by Knight Foundation, the gathering will be an important opportunity for policymakers, researchers and the private sector to discuss the latest trends and research in this emerging field, while strengthening relationships that lead […]
In this talk, Lindsey D. Felt will introduce a framework that locates disability innovation, artistry, and crip politics as central to the development of AI and technology. From M Eifler’s Prosthetic Memory to Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex, these examples of AI art highlight the erasures of disability from training data and refuse AI’s optimization against disability. Historically, technologies have […]
Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing […]
Join us virtually on December 2nd and 3rd as we celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) with approximately two and a half hours of interactive talks and conversations with DAIR's team members located across North America, Europe and Africa. This anniversary celebration is designed for anyone interested in our work […]
On December 10, 3pm EST at the New Museum, Rhizome will host a CyberPowWow panel discussion featuring artist Skawennati of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), scholar Mikhel Proulx, and Rhizome Preservation Director, Dragan Espenschied. Launched by the Nation to Nation collective—Skawennati, Ryan Rice, and Eric Robertson—in 1997, CyberPowWow was among the first major online art […]
Overview: From the news stories we read to accessing information about our personal health, our everyday lives are shaped by technology. Indeed, technology creates new forms of positive connection and creativity, but it also gives rise to new challenges that can negatively affect society and disproportionately impact communities of color and marginalized groups. Today, educators, […]
The Media Law & Policy Scholars conference isn’t like the typical big conferences you attend. Instead, it’s designed to be a small workshop where everyone participates in an engaging, intellectual dialogue.
Increasingly, companies are implementing new worker selection procedures at every stage of recruitment and employment, often in ways that can reinforce pre-existing disparities in the job market. But employers and vendors are rarely transparent about how these tools are used, making it difficult to detect how they can discriminate against workers, and to implement the […]
Rapid improvements in computational power and coincident increases in the amount of data on individuals and firms that is publicly available or can be purchased at a nominal cost have created new challenges for protecting the privacy of survey responses and administrative data. By combining such data with information from external sources, it is increasingly […]