The dual quests - to understand intelligence as it arises in biology and to build it in machines of our own making - have been with us for nearly a century. While neuroscience and psychology seek to characterize intelligence in terms of underlying neural mechanisms and emergent behavior, we still ...
AI systems are now used by millions of people daily, but we know surprisingly little about how they are actually used or what effect they have on the people using them. I present three lines of work. First, Clio, a privacy-preserving platform for studying patterns across millions of real AI ...
The next generation of truly intelligent systems won’t be defined by scale. They’ll be defined by adaption: the ability to continuously learn, evolve, and close the gap between what a model knows and what the world actually looks like right now.In this talk, Sara Hooker, Co-founder of Adaption Labs, defines ...
This talk will be an introduction to population ethics, the branch of philosophy that investigates ethical issues surrounding the creation of new people. The power we wield over the future is immense: our choices today not only shape the quality of future lives but often determine who will exist in ...
The term "environmental justice" has grown in popularity over the past many decades, yet still it is misunderstood and too often ignored in mainstream discourse.What is the EJ movement? Where did it start?With the current Trump Administration and EPA as it stands, what dangers does the EJ movement face in ...
For three to four decades, clinical trials have chased treatments and cures for Alzheimer's disease. The problem is timing. Entire lifetimes of memories vanish, daily routines unravel, and families carry a healthcare burden that can feel insurmountable, all before most drugs even get a chance to work.Join a neuroscientist and ...
