Seed Funding Presentations (Generative AI, Free Speech, & Public Discourse)
Seed funding presentations exploring new developments in generative AI and their applications to public discourse and free speech questions.
Introductory Remarks:
Alberto Ibargüen, President, Knight Foundation (2005-2024); Board Member, Knight Institute (2016-2021)
Katy Glenn Bass, Knight Institute
Samar Kaukab, Columbia Engineering
Presentations:
Xia Zhou, Columbia Engineering
Kathy McKeown, Columbia Engineering
Lena Song, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, SSRC Digital Platforms Initiative
Carl Vondrick, Columbia Engineering
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While the technology underlying generative AI has been decades in the making, to the public, the introduction of ChatGPT, Dall-E, and similar tools feels like a seismic shift in the relationship between humans and technology, especially technology used for expressive purposes. The emergence of generative AI models has been accompanied by predictions of dire harms, including a fresh deluge of disinformation, threats to free elections, and other attacks aimed at destabilizing democracies.
This symposium brought together leading scholars and practitioners in computer science, law, communications, and policy to debate some of the biggest questions machine-learning tools raise for the future of public discourse, free expression, and democracy.
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