Talks & Events

First Annual Symposium of Good Systems—A UT Grand Challenge
From Good Systems: Join us as we examine how our grand challenge work to date has brought us closer to our mission of designing ethical AI technologies, as well as what steps we need to take going forward. The symposium has both live (synchronous)...

Antiracist Tech Club (ART Club) July Virtual Mixer + Introductions
From ART Club: If you're interested in data sovereignty, algorithmic justice, and creating new futures for our engagement with technology, you're in the right place. We're an interdisciplinary group of librarians, information scholars, and...

Disinformation Conference and Workshop
This event has been postponed until Fall 2020.

Disinformation Group Meeting
As part of our Good Systems work, Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement, Mary Neuburger, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Sharon Strover proposed to host monthly “Disinformation Network” meetings to...

Shiny Things Workshop
There is so much buzz about artificial intelligence, but what’s real and what’s fiction? In this hands-on session about AI’s effects on science and society, Harvard researcher and artist Sarah Newman will help us explore scholarly and practical AI...

The Grand Challenge of Ethics and AI: A Fireside Chat with Tim Hwang
Good Systems is hosting a fireside chat with Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, and Professor Sharon Strover from the Moody College of Communication. Dubbed “The Busiest Man on the Internet” by...

Critical Infrastructure Studies: A Primer
Abstract: What have been the main approaches to the study of infrastructure that now combine to make the topic of such compelling socio-political, technological, media-informatic, cultural, historical, and artistic interest across the disciplines?...

Brown Bag Lunch with Sam Woolley
Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute as we host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant Professor in the Journalism School at the Moody College of Communication. Professor Woolley will present his talk, Addressing the Next Wave of...

Human-Machine Networks: Working Together or Working Apart?
Join TIPI as we welcome Eric Meyer as the new dean of the School of Information! Eric will talk about Human-Machine networks. The story of society is inextricably bound with the rise of tools and machines. In the digital age, the machines we have...

Governance, Social Media and Algorithms: Challenges and Opportunities for Traditional Regulatory Rationales and Self-regulatory Models
The Technology & Information Policy Institute (TIPI) presents a talk by Philip M. Napoli, co-sponsored by the Digital Media Speaker Series, Good Systems, and the Department of Radio-Television-Film. This presentation focuses on the relationship...