CDT's 2023 Future of Speech Online (FOSO) Lightning Talks

#FOSO2023 Lightning Talks: The Promise and Perils of Generative AI
Sarabeth Berman - American Journalism Project
Kelley Szany - Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie
Steve Lee - SkillUp Coalition
Matthew Gee - BrightHive
Danna Ingleton, HURIDOCS
Sal Khan - Khan Academy
This session will spotlight experts using generative AI across a variety of industries. Speakers will give a short overview of their work as lightning talks. Speakers come from art, medicine, literature, education, and political advocacy.
Air date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
About the event:
In just the last year, #ArtificialIntelligence (AI) has dominated conversations about technology. Text and image generators released to the public like ChatGPT - which belong to a broad category of machine learning models called “generative AI” - have demonstrated the promises and pitfalls of advanced machine learning technology. Regulators in the U.S. and EU are focusing attention on AI in general, with an eye to limiting its harms. One thing is clear: #AI will play a key role in our digital future, making it crucial to understand the opportunities and risks the technology poses to human rights and democracies.
Join us virtually for the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)’s seventh annual Future of Speech Online event, on October 4-5, where we’ll explore how to build a rights-respecting future where people benefit from generative AI. We’ll look at how these tools are created and used, what kind of technical, policy, and legal safeguards are feasible, and how various approaches to regulation might shape the landscape for #OnlineSpeech.
Importantly, we’ll ground attendees in the technical know-how necessary for navigating #policy conversations around generative AI and other types of large language models. We’ll also consider questions including: What makes for safe and accountable #GenerativeAI? Who should be held liable when developing and using these tools? What risks does generative AI pose for the many high-stakes elections happening around the world in the coming year? What outcomes do we want to incentivize?
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