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TEC Talks: Artificial Intelligence and Power
This week’s discussion will focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and power. What are the social, political, and ethical implications on AI? How do they impact...
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TEC Talks: Identity and Power
How do you prove that you are who you say you are? As our world becomes increasingly digitized, automated, and algorithmically operated, digital identity schemes are becoming an...
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TEC Talks: Workers and Power
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on essential workers: grocery workers who keep shelves stocked with food and cleaning supplies, truckers who transport goods across the...
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TEC Talks: Privacy and Power
The proliferation of smart devices - not just phones but TVs, home security cameras, and more - has led to the collection of personal data on an unprecedented scale. This erosion...
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TEC Talks: Machine Learning and Power
Machine learning purports to make accurate predictions and decisions about everything from prison recidivism rates to cancer diagnoses to mortgage approvals. But time and time...
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TEC Talks: Corporate Responsibility and Power
Companies—especially those with digital “platform power”—wield an enormous influence over economic, political, and social life in the United States and globally. The...
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TEC Talks: Bias and Power
While algorithms and artificial intelligence are often touted as neutral and unbiased decision-making tools, research such as Dr. Joy Buolamwini and Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Gender...
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TEC Talks: Misinformation and Disinformation – How Social Media’s Obsession with Scale Supercharged Disinformation
Conspiracy theories and other false claims have always been part of our discourse, even (and perhaps especially) our politics. But modern technologies seem to have changed the...
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TEC Talks: Misinformation and Disinformation – What Do We Value? The Ethics of Tech Accountability
Listen to the discussion with Mark McKenna, Elizabeth M. Renieris, and special guests Ifeoma Ozoma and Roger McNamee.
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TEC Talks: Misinformation and Disinformation – Section 230: Online Speech and Tech Responsibility
The third talk in our TEC Talks series called “Section 230: Online Speech and Tech Responsibility,” features Danielle Citron, Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck...
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TEC Talks: Misinformation and Disinformation – The Ethics of Verification, Identity, and Anonymity on the Internet
This session will feature David Magerman, co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures and an advocate for internet reform, and Jillian C. York, Director of...
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TEC Talks: Misinformation and Disinformation – Learning from Our Mistakes: What Can Smaller Platforms Learn from Ethical Challenges at Scale?
The session "Learning from Our Mistakes: What can smaller platforms learn from ethical challenges at scale?" features Julie Owono, founder of Internet Sans Frontières and a...
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