Presenter Maarten Boudry Dr. Maarten Boudry is a philosopher of science and first holder of the Etienne Vermeersch Chair of Critical Thinking at Ghent University. He published over 50 academic papers and two edited volumes: Science Unlimited? (2018) and Philosophy of Pseudoscience (2013). He wrote six trade books in Dutch on science and philosophy, the… Continue reading Maarten Boudry | Will Humanity Be Subjugated by Superintelligent AIs?
Presenter Dmitrii Usynin, Technical University of Munich I am a PhD student at the Joint Academy of Doctoral Studies (JADS) launched between Imperial College London and Technical University of Munich. My research interests lie on the intersection of collaborative machine learning (CML) and trustworthy artificial intelligence (TAI). In particular, I am interested in topics such… Continue reading Dmitrii Usynin | Meaningfully evaluating large-scale machine learning under privacy constraints
Presenter Greg Leppert, Harvard Greg Leppert is the Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard, a research initiative working to refine and publish library, academic, and government collections as public datasets for AI training. He is also the Chief Technologist of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. Before academia, Greg built startups in NYC and… Continue reading Greg Leppert | The Most Boring Dataset in the World
Abstract: Internet users often neglect important security actions (e.g., installing security updates or changing pass-words) because they interrupt usersā main task at inopportune times. Commitment devices, such as reminders and promises, have been found to be effective at reducing procrastination in other domains. In a series of on-line experiments, we explored the effects of reminders… Continue reading Serge Egelman | 2024 Norm Hardy Prize Seminar
