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Week of March 21, 2022
CITP News Highlights

CITP Fellow Elizabeth Anne Watkins to Participate in Brookings Institution Panel on Operational AI

Watkins, a postdoctoral research fellow, will join an April 5 panel, hosted by the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, on ways to operationalize responsible AI. Panelists will also discuss how to design appropriate algorithms and build technical capacity. The event will be webcast.
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Tech Companies Should Make Privacy Tools Available to Russians, CITP Fellow Sergey Sanovich Tells Coda Story

The digital site, Coda Story, talked to Sanovich about a lack of access in Russia to tools that allow users to browse the web privately. Sanovich, a postdoctoral research associate who specializes in disinformation and online censorship, said Russian citizens need access to tools.
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CITP Emerging Scholar Klaudia Jaźwińska Discusses Big Tech's Financial Influence Over CS Conferences in Blog Post

Writing for CITP’s Freedom to Tinker blog, Jaźwińska discusses the extent to which large technology corporations like Google, Microsoft and IBM dominate in computer science research, and uses a dataset to illustrate the extent to which CS conferences rely on them financially.
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CITP Fellow Orestis Papakyriakopoulos Discusses Trump Tweets with Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab

Papakyriakopoulos, a postdoctoral research associate, discussed the findings of his research – published in Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – into how social media users responded to misinformation warning labels on the former president's tweets.
 

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CITP Fellow Sergey Sanovich Featured in SPIA Talk About Disinformation in Russia's War on Ukraine

In the March 11 event sponsored by the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Sanovich described the personal risks Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine are facing, as well as the information war playing out.
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CITP Advisory Council Member Travis LeBlanc To Advise California State Bar After Data Breach

The California State Bar has tapped LeBlanc, a Princeton graduate, and other partner attorneys with the firm Cooley LLP, following a data breach of more than 300,000 confidential records. LeBlanc is vice-chair of Cooley’s cyber/data/privacy practice.

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CITP Advisory Council Member Gabriel Weinberg Featured in Press After Tweet Addressing Russian Disinformation

Weinberg, founder and CEO of the search engine DuckDuckGo, shared on Twitter plans to down-rank sites linked to Russian disinformation, garnering coverage in multiple outlets, including the New York Times. Weinberg used the hashtag, #StandWithUkraine.

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Upcoming Events

CITP will not hold a seminar today.

The CITP seminar series will return next week at 12:30 p.m.

CITP Seminar

CITP Seminar: Jaime Fernández Fisac – Machine Bullshit: Emergent Manipulative Behavior in Language Agents
Our research group is currently trying to shed light on what we think is one of the most pressing dangers presaged by the increasing power and reach of AI technologies ...
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Emily Denton – Data, Power, and AI Ethics: Critiquing and Rethinking Machine Learning Data Infrastructure
In response to growing concerns of bias, discrimination, and unfairness perpetuated by algorithmic systems, the datasets used to train and evaluate machine learning models have come ...
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CITP Special Event

Tech In Conversation: Imagining Radical Tech Futures – Moderated by CITP Emerging Scholar Kenia Hale
While scholars often examine the ways in which technologies fail and marginalize communities, this event focuses on an equally critical goal of adopting an abolitionist mindset ...
 
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Denae Ford Robinson – The Next Generation of Software Developers
Microsoft is home to the world’s largest developer communities and ecosystems with Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio. Thus, having sustainable and inclusive communities is ...
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Amy Winecoff – Algorithmic Ecosystems: Understanding Human-AI Interactions from Both Sides of the Algorithm
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms constitute a core component of many technology products. Although ML and AI algorithms can be beneficial ...
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