Events
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Sep 24Lunch Seminar: When the Machine Says It Isn’t Sure: Uncertainty and Accountability in Large Language Models
Martin Eiermann
8411 Social Sciences
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Oct 1Visiting Speaker Seminar Series: The Innovation Paradigm: Making Technology, Morality, and Citizenship in Aspirational India and Beyond
Shobita Parthasarathy
5055 Vilas Hall (Nafzinger Room)
In recent decades, there have been numerous efforts to deploy technological innovation “for good”, to address the world’s most intractable problems, from information and communication technology for development to, most recently, AI for social good. And yet, despite the good intentions, these technologies rarely achieve their intended purposes. Further, they often create problems, including increased …
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Oct 22Lunch Seminar: Revisiting ‘Professional Guinea Pigs’: Over-volunteering, Registries and Regulatory Cultures in Clinical Trials Research
Roberto Abadie
8411 Social Sciences
Based on an ethnography of human volunteers making a living by participating in phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia, this talk revisits the role of registries in preventing over-volunteering (more than one trial at a time or enrollment without respecting the “wash out period”) and limiting exploitation and reducing risk exposure among professional subjects. In …
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Nov 5Lunch Seminar: Million Dollar Babies: Premature Birth, Neonatal Intensive Care, and the Economization of Public Health
Sadie Bergen
8411 Social Sciences
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Nov 19Lunch Seminar: Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination
Tomás Dodds
8411 Social Sciences
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Dec 3Graduate Students Awardees Panel
8411 Social Sciences