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SUMMARY:Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons
DESCRIPTION:Please join Pitt Cyber\, the School of Law\, and the Center for Governance and Markets to celebrate the launch of Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons. \nThe collection\, edited by Brett M. Frischmann\, Michael J. Madison\, and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo\, features essays by Pitt’s Michael Madison and other thought leaders exploring the governance of smart cities\, shaping our understanding of increasingly critical regulatory and policy issues through case studies and a knowledge commons framework. This is the fifth book in the Governing Knowledge Commons series. \nThe event will feature commentary from Michael Madison and Karen Lightman\, Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Metro21: Smart Cities Institute.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/governing-smart-cities-as-knowledge-commons/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to AI Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Ravit Dotan\, University of Pittsburgh Center for Governance and Markets \nAI tools can be helpful when used well\, but they are dangerous when used irresponsibly. AI ethics is the field that aims to understand and manage the opportunities and risks of using AI. This talk introduces the audience to prominent AI risks\, the current state of AI ethics\, the landscape of AI regulation worldwide\, and what organizations should do to develop and use AI responsibly. \nWatch the seminar here.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/introduction-to-ai-ethics/
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SUMMARY:A Year of Resilience in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:April 17 at 3 PM ET\nIn-person: Posvar Hall 3911 \nJust one year ago Tymofiy Brik became the youngest university rector (provost) in the history of independent Ukraine. As the academic leader of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE)\, he has managed the univesrsity faculty\, staff\, and students through incredible challenges. In this talk\, Brik will speak about the resilience of KSE and communities in Ukraine as they confront war. \nTymofii Brik\, the Rector (Provost) at the Kyiv School of Economics\, is currently serving as the Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University in Spring 2023. His research interests focus on religious markets\, long-term social mobility\, and social network analysis. Since 2021\, Brik has been serving as the national coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine\, which is an international comparative study conducted in most European countries since 2002. Additionally\, he serves as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Kyiv-based CEDOS think tank\, as an advisory board member of the Texty.org “Rating Sellers” project and of Gradus Research. Furthermore\, Brik is also a co-founder of the public restaurant Urban Space 500 in Kyiv.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/a-year-of-resilience-in-ukraine/
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SUMMARY:Textual Speculations: How Generative AI Predicts the Next Word
DESCRIPTION:The current discourse around generative AI is steeped in speculation: how effective can large language models get? How will they affect employment and education? And are they leading to artificial general intelligence (AGI)? But beyond the discourse\, the models themselves are built on speculation: drawing from a giant dataset of natural language in text\, they predict the next word in a sequence. Earlier approaches to natural language generation (such as Markov models) also predicted the next word\, but recent large language models (LLMs) combine more complicated algorithms\, concepts of attention\, and larger datasets to conceal their predictive nature and produce far more coherent and plausible natural language. Yet AI writing detectors operate on this idea that AI writing is more predictable than that of humans: humans tend to write with greater “burstiness” and “perplexity.” \nWith the contrast between human and AI writing as a framing device\, this talk traces the ways that prediction has operated in generative AI and other historical attempts to automate writing. Attendees of the talk will come away with an understanding of: current Large Language Models driving generative AI writing and how they differ from earlier models; how AI models do and don’t replicate human writing; and the practical effects of generative AI in writing and pedagogy. \nAnnette Vee is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh\, where she teaches writing and digital composition. She is the author of Coding Literacy (MIT Press\, 2017) and has published on computer programming\, digital literacy\, blockchain technologies\, intellectual property\, and AI-based text generators. \n  \nZoom Recording
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/textual-speculations-how-generative-ai-predicts-the-next-word/
LOCATION:Wesley W. Posvar Hall\, 230 S Bouquet St\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead: A Conference on Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Governance and Markets along with the United States Institute of Peace\, the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies\, and The Hollings Center for International Dialogue invites the University of Pittsburgh community to join us for Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead: A Conference on Afghanistan. \nThis conference of scholars and practitioners from Afghanistan explores how society in that country can begin to overcome differences and build on past and present forms of social cohesion—and whether this can be done under authoritarian Taliban rule.
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/negotiating-difference-afghanistan/
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SUMMARY:Conference on Afghanistan: Negotiating Difference and Pluralism in the Way Ahead
DESCRIPTION:The Islamic Republic collapsed in August 2021\, giving way to the return on the Taliban Emirate. The resurgence of the Taliban was made possible\, in part\, by deep divisions among citizens as well as growing divides between political leaders and the people they were supposed to serve. Violent conflict and uncertainty in Afghanistan over two generations have yielded polarization of various forms that represents a challenge to peace\, security\, and governance. Since the Taliban came to power\, Afghanistan has seen a rise in violence directed at specific religious\, ethnic\, and regional communities. \nCGM\, the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies\, and the U.S. Institute of Peace will convene a 2-day conference of Afghan scholars and practitioners to consider how Afghan society can begin to overcome these differences and build on past and present forms of social cohesion (and whether this can be done author authoritarian Taliban rule). On day one\, the conference will compromise of three panels\, each on a different theme (see below). On day two\, participants will engage in facilitated discussion and networking. \nDay one of the conference will be structured into three sequential panel discussions along the following themes: \nPanel 1: Social Cohesion & Coesitence: Lessons from the Past \nWhat are examples of social cohesion and pluralism in Aghan history\, either at the national level of the local level? What can these teach us about how to heal divisions and establish peaceful coexistence and tolerance\, both among citizens and between citizens and the state? What resources are needed\, from whom\, to replate these successful examples? \nPanel 2: Engagement from the Outside In? Lessons from Past Roles of the Diaspora \nIn the 1980s and 1990s\, what roles did external Afghan actors play in enabling\, mitigating\, and transcending the divisions that took hold? What lessons can we take from the past role of diaspora communities? \nPanel 3: Managing Difference through Systems of Governance \nHow can various governance models enable coexistence and inclusion? What lessons can we take from previous institutions and governing systems in Afghanistan? Can effective models be implemented at national or subnational levels amid the authoritarian rule of the Taliban\, and if so\, how?
URL:https://cgm.pitt.edu/event/afghanistan-negotiating-difference/
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