Ketamine: Markets, Medicine, and Madness

Michael Oldani | Clinical Associate Professor, Executive Director of Interprofessional Practice and Education, State University of New York at Buffalo
8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Ketamine is an older prescription drug that has undergone a renaissance in the pharmaceutical marketplace, specifically for treatment resistant depression and psychedelic therapies. This paper ethnographically presents a case study of a patient undergoing ketamine …

Shifting the Frame: The Labors of ImageNet and AI Data

Visiting Speaker Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute
8417 Sewell Social Science Building
@ 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and LaMDA have led a multi-billion dollar industry in generative AI, and a potentially much larger industry in AI more generally. However, these technologies would not exist …