Human-Machine Networks: Working Together or Working Apart?
March 7, 2019, All Day
Led by Dean Eric Meyer from the School of Information. The story of society is inextricably bound with the rise of tools and machines. In the digital age, the machines we have created have become immensely powerful on the one hand but are also limited in many ways. This talk uses examples from research over the last decade — including citizen science, digital scholarship, crisis response, and knowledge creation on the internet — to explore how humans and machines work jointly and independently in complex socio-technical assemblages. This event is part of the Digital Media Speaker Series at the Moody College of Communication.
Designing Good AI+Human Hybrid Systems to Curb Misinformation
Feb. 15, 2019, All Day
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The Ethical Operating System: How Not to Regret the Things You Build
Jan. 29, 2019, All Day
Join Sam Woolley from Institute of the Future at UT's Digital Media Speaker Series this month. The current wave of computational propaganda has taken the world by surprise. Technology firms, policy makers, journalists and the general public are scrambling to respond to the societal threats posed by disinformation and politically motivated trolling. This talk outlines one method for responding to these issues: the Ethical Operating System (ethicalOS.org), a toolkit for anticipating future uses of technology. Jane McGonigal and Samuel Woolley, with support from Omidyar Network, constructed this guide to help a wide variety of groups think about how to design technology with democracy and human rights in mind. The toolkit has been used by major companies in Silicon Valley, by legislators at the state and federal level and by students in Stanford's design school and intro to computer science courses. It's time, however, to put into the hands of the U.S. public so that they can help in the fight against disinformation and manipulative technology.
Water for Texas Conference 2019
Jan. 23, 2019, All Day
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