Artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being used by artists, architects, and designers in creative work. And, these days, it’s not uncommon to see NFTs and AI-generated art making media headlines.

Ethics in AI Seminar

Dr. Lipton’s research spans core machine learning methods and theory, their applications in healthcare and natural language processing, and critical concerns, both about the mode of inquiry itself, and the impact of the technology it produces on social systems.

While the recent boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has given rise to the technology’s use and popularity across many domains, the same boom has exposed vulnerabilities of the technology to many threats that could cause the next “AI winter." AI is no stranger to “winters," or drops in funding and interest in the technology and its applications. Many in the field consider the early 1970’s as the first AI winter with another proceeding in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s.

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For our November event, we’ve partnered with Good Systems – a UT Austin research grand challenge focused on defining, evaluating, and building ethical human + AI systems to benefit society – to host Dr. Elliott Hauser as our speaker.

As part of this project, local nonprofits Arts New Orleans and the Water Leaders Institute partnered to design a cohort-based professional development program to equip local artists and neighborhood residents with knowledge about critical civic issues to prepare them to co-create public art projects.

There are approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) of cryptocurrency load capacity within the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). As of mid-2022, ERCOT had 33 GW of cryptocurrency mining in its interconnection queue. The potential increase in power demand was so high that ERCOT established a new interim process and a special task force for determining new rules for interconnecting large loads, such as cryptocurrency mining operations.

The Texas Robotics faculty and students will be presenting their research on household, healthcare, and mobile autonomous robotics. Our partners at Good Systems will discuss integrating technical and social approaches to living and working with robots. The event will include poster presentations, demos, and discussion panels by students and faculty. There will also be an exclusive Open Networking event for our Texas Robotics industry partners and students.

Hosted by Good Systems’ “Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Curb Disinformation” research team, this virtual event brings together researchers and thought leaders working across disciplines and sectors to discuss approaches to curbing the spread of digital disinformation. Data scientist and engineer Dr. David Corney will deliver a keynote on “How AI can help fact checkers to fight bad information.” The keynote will be followed by two panels exploring topics including bias and fairness and addressing the gap between fact checkers’ needs and existing technologies. Attendees are encouraged to participate in interactive Q&As following each session.