4/30: MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium
Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
On April 30, the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) will host the third annual MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium. This day-long event will feature MIT faculty research presentations, a keynote address by Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University, and panel discussions on AI alignment and the future of education with participants from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
Speakers will examine foundational and applied challenges in AI, including collective harms from individually beneficial systems, fairness-constrained machine learning for public policy, ethical computer vision, human-robot interaction, environmental forecasting, virtue-based AI policies in schools, and model verification—bridging technical advances with questions of accountability and social impact.
The symposium will also feature a SERC Scholars poster session showcasing student research from first-year undergraduates to PhD candidates. Poster topics will range from chatbot friends and risk-averse AI systems to the environmental impacts of AI, highlighting the breadth of emerging scholarship in ethical computing.
The symposium will conclude with a keynote address by Kleinberg, whose research explores networks, algorithms, and the social and information systems that underpin the Web and other online media.
BU community is welcome to attend.
Register here.