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Digital Rights and AI in the Urban Landscape

Jan. 24, 2025, 1 to 2:30 p.m.

Digital Rights and AI in the Urban Landscape is an event you won't want to miss! Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the intersection of technology, data privacy, and urban development. Our expert speakers will delve into the impact of AI on our cities and the importance of protecting digital rights in today's digital age. Mark your calendars and come ready to engage in lively conversations with like-minded individuals. See you there!

Event tags: Good Systems

The Case for Unpermissioned Research on Social Media

Jan. 23, 2025, 12:30 to 2 p.m.

Join us for an insightful panel with Ethan Zuckerman as we explore the evolving role of social media in the American public sphere. Our ability to understand this new space is constrained by actions powerful platform companies take that create obstacles to researchers who seek to study them. Unpermissioned research is the idea that researchers can practically and ethically study social media even when social media platforms would prefer not to be scrutinized. What insights can we gain when we approach social media with careful, close, and adversarial research methods? Don’t miss this thought-provoking discussion!

Event tags: Good Systems

Responsible AI Innovation: How AI Technologies Can Support Society's Greatest Needs

Nov. 15, 2024, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Leaders and key partners of UT Austin’s Good Systems, an interdisciplinary research grand challenge focused on ethical and responsible AI, explore what it means to build beneficial human-AI partnerships and how values-driven innovation can advance equity, sustainability, and improve quality of life for all. They will delve into the potential benefits and risks of new AI applications, the ethical questions that are keeping them up, exciting new technological developments, and their hopes for the future.

Event tags: Good Systems

Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable - Collaborative Communities for Energy Justice

Nov. 13, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.

This talk surveys ten collaborative communities from around the globe that form the Intersecting Energy Cultures (IEC) Working Group, convened by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities founding director, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, and Dr. Rebecca Macklin at the University of Aberdeen.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series