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Ian P. Sharp Lecture | Beth Simone Noveck | AI’s transformative role in democratic societies
The Ian P. Sharp Lectureship was established at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto in 1989 through a gift from I.P. Sharp Associates Ltd. (A Reuters Company). It is intended to bring internationally renowned individuals to the campus to explore the transformative effects of information practice. The lectures, which are open to the profession and members of the public, are delivered every three to four years by a distinguished figure in information science and related fields.
In 2024, the lecture returned through a partnership between the Faculty of Information and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI). The 2024 Ian P. Sharp Lecturer was Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project The GovLab. Noveck is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
The lecture was hosted as the closing session for Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024, SRI’s annual academic conference.
Talk title: “From ballots to bots: AI’s transformative role in democratic societies.”
About the speaker
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The GovLab. She is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
At Northeastern, Beth directs AI for Impact, and its InnovateMA co-op program in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Through AI for Impact, students use artificial intelligence and human-centered design to deliver cutting-edge projects that solve public sector problems and improve lives.
Beth’s work focuses on using AI to reimagine participatory democracy and strengthen governance, and she has spent her career helping institutions incorporate more equitable and open ways of working using new technology. Together with Citizens Foundation, she is designing and building AI-enabled tools to enhance collective intelligence and participatory problem solving. She blogs about AI, democracy and governance at Reboot Democracy.
She was named one of the “Foreign Policy 100” by Foreign Policy, one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”, a “Top Women in Technology” by Huffington Post, and one of the World's 100 Most Influential Academics in Government by Apolitical. She was awarded the doctorat honoris causa from the University of Geneva in October 2023.
About the Faculty of Information
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is one of the world’s foremost information schools, educating information professionals and leading the way in research. Its programs and researchers address topics such as information organization and access, data science, human-computer interaction, cultural heritage institutions, artificial intelligence, and information integrity.
About the Schwartz Reisman Institute
Located at the University of Toronto, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society’s mission is to deepen our knowledge of technologies, societies, and what it means to be human by integrating research across traditional boundaries and building human-centred solutions that really make a difference. The integrative research we conduct rethinks technology’s role in society, the contemporary needs of human communities, and the systems that govern them. We’re investigating how best to align technology with human values and deploy it accordingly. The human-centred solutions we build are actionable and practical, highlighting the potential of emerging technologies to serve the public good while protecting citizens and societies from their misuse. We want to make sure powerful technologies truly make the world a better place-for everyone.
In 2024, the lecture returned through a partnership between the Faculty of Information and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI). The 2024 Ian P. Sharp Lecturer was Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project The GovLab. Noveck is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
The lecture was hosted as the closing session for Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024, SRI’s annual academic conference.
Talk title: “From ballots to bots: AI’s transformative role in democratic societies.”
About the speaker
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University, where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The GovLab. She is faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI, School of Law, and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the College of Arts, Design, and Media, the College of Engineering, and affiliated faculty at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
At Northeastern, Beth directs AI for Impact, and its InnovateMA co-op program in partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Through AI for Impact, students use artificial intelligence and human-centered design to deliver cutting-edge projects that solve public sector problems and improve lives.
Beth’s work focuses on using AI to reimagine participatory democracy and strengthen governance, and she has spent her career helping institutions incorporate more equitable and open ways of working using new technology. Together with Citizens Foundation, she is designing and building AI-enabled tools to enhance collective intelligence and participatory problem solving. She blogs about AI, democracy and governance at Reboot Democracy.
She was named one of the “Foreign Policy 100” by Foreign Policy, one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business”, a “Top Women in Technology” by Huffington Post, and one of the World's 100 Most Influential Academics in Government by Apolitical. She was awarded the doctorat honoris causa from the University of Geneva in October 2023.
About the Faculty of Information
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is one of the world’s foremost information schools, educating information professionals and leading the way in research. Its programs and researchers address topics such as information organization and access, data science, human-computer interaction, cultural heritage institutions, artificial intelligence, and information integrity.
About the Schwartz Reisman Institute
Located at the University of Toronto, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society’s mission is to deepen our knowledge of technologies, societies, and what it means to be human by integrating research across traditional boundaries and building human-centred solutions that really make a difference. The integrative research we conduct rethinks technology’s role in society, the contemporary needs of human communities, and the systems that govern them. We’re investigating how best to align technology with human values and deploy it accordingly. The human-centred solutions we build are actionable and practical, highlighting the potential of emerging technologies to serve the public good while protecting citizens and societies from their misuse. We want to make sure powerful technologies truly make the world a better place-for everyone.
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AI adoption in industry | Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024
zhlédnutí 96Před 21 dnem
While recent headlines have breathlessly proclaimed that AI technologies are taking over the world of work, the realities of AI adoption in practice are much more nuanced and varied. As history demonstrates, the transformative effects and implications of new technologies often take considerable time-sometimes a generation or more-to be implemented at a system level. However, when these transfor...
AI and the future of democracy | Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024
zhlédnutí 69Před 21 dnem
As the world approaches the biggest election year in recent history, the role of new technologies in shaping governance and politics is both omnipresent and ominous. This panel delves into urgent issues surrounding the potential sway of voters through AI and the looming threats of AI-generated videos, “rumour bombs,” and disinformation campaigns that have been enabled by the rise of powerful ne...
AI Index Report and Global Public Opinion on AI Report | Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024
zhlédnutí 148Před 21 dnem
What will a future landscape shaped by AI and data look like? What challenges do we face today amidst the implementation of AI systems across society? This session will explore key insights from Stanford HAI’s latest AI Index Report and the Schwartz Reisman Institute’s forthcoming Global Public Opinion on AI Report, exploring the goals, methodologies, and applications of these reports, as well ...
Designing human-machine coexistence | Absolutely Interdisciplinary
zhlédnutí 51Před 21 dnem
Technological advances in artificial intelligence will not only potentially revolutionize human abilities but also facilitate the development of artificial entities capable of interacting with humans in both physical and virtual environments. How should we design and facilitate social and technical systems in an age of human and machine coexistence and still preserve the distinctiveness of huma...
Algorithms to support AI safety cases | Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024
zhlédnutí 133Před 21 dnem
With the rapid advancement of large language model capabilities, it becomes increasingly essential to demonstrate that a given AI system doesn’t pose a catastrophic risk. In this session, Roger Grosse will outline how AI risks can be categorized into “AI Safety Levels” and the logic of how one might build a safety case at a given level. This motivates the need for algorithmic advances that will...
A world of natural and artificial agents in a shared environment | Absolutely Interdisciplinary 2024
zhlédnutí 283Před 21 dnem
As AI development pushes towards building autonomous AI agents, we can imagine a future, perhaps not too far off, during which humans and AI agents are interacting regularly in open domains. Clearly, such agents need to be able to cooperate with humans, just as humans have evolved to be highly cooperative with one another. In this session, Peter Railton and Gillian Hadfield will discuss what it...
The potential and limits of technology for sustainable cities | SRI Graduate Workshop 2024
zhlédnutí 16Před 21 dnem
The looming threat of climate change has heightened concerns regarding how complex urban systems-shaped by local, national, and transnational dynamics-address environmental challenges. Environmental data plays a pivotal role in visualizing the “climate problems,” yet its production, collection, and use are essentially contested. To understand the potential and politics of environmental data, ad...
What is the future of online safety and content moderation? | SRI Graduate Workshop 2024
zhlédnutí 24Před 21 dnem
Online discussions have, in recent years, become one of the main ways in which individuals access information and exchange opinions. Traditional barriers to communication have largely disappeared, and it is increasingly difficult to verify the sources and reliability of online information. In light of problems related to polarization, misinformation, online violence, and deepfakes, various inte...
Value alignment for harmful AI | SRI Graduate Workshop 2024
zhlédnutí 60Před 21 dnem
The interdisciplinary fields of AI safety and AI ethics emphasize the need to create autonomous systems that align with human values. These discussions often assume that AI systems should “do no harm” to humans. But lethal AI systems used for autonomous firearms and drones are already being used to harm people. In this session, we will explore how researchers and practitioners interested in the...
An interdisciplinary dialogue on AI in healthcare | SRI Graduate Workshop 2024
zhlédnutí 64Před 21 dnem
In this session, speakers will present real-world examples to discuss the assumptions underpinning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in healthcare, raise key considerations from their disciplinary perspectives for addressing issues in healthcare delivery, and explore current challenges and tensions within the field of AI and health. Attendees will gain a better understanding of th...
Iason Gabriel | The ethics of advanced AI assistants
zhlédnutí 612Před 3 měsíci
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Iason Gabriel, a staff research scientist at Google DeepMind whose work focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, including questions about AI value alignment, distributive justice, language ethics and human rights. Gabriel has contributed to several projects that promote responsible innovation in AI, including the creation of the ethics review pro...
Ann Copestake | LLMs and the Information Layer
zhlédnutí 180Před 3 měsíci
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Ann Copestake, a professor of computational linguistics at the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Her research involves developing computer models of human languages. In conjunction with DELPH-IN, an informal international consortium, Copestake has developed software that has been used to develop formal computatio...
Luciano Floridi | What is the impact of AI on democracy?
zhlédnutí 926Před 3 měsíci
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Luciano Floridi, founding director of the Digital Ethics Center and professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University. Before joining Yale, he was the OII Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford. World-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy, Floridi is a founding figure ...
Rohan Alexander | Improving reproducibility in quantitative social sciences
zhlédnutí 137Před 4 měsíci
Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Rohan Alexander for a special in-person talk that will also be broadcast online. Alexander is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto jointly appointed in the Faculty of Information and the Department of Statistical Sciences, an assistant director of CANSSI Ontario, a senior fellow at Massey College, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman ...
Vincent Conitzer | Social choice and game theory for AI alignment
zhlédnutí 368Před 4 měsíci
Vincent Conitzer | Social choice and game theory for AI alignment
Jon Kleinberg | The challenge of understanding what users want
zhlédnutí 507Před 5 měsíci
Jon Kleinberg | The challenge of understanding what users want
Norman Sadeh | Privacy in the age of AI and the Internet of Things
zhlédnutí 272Před 5 měsíci
Norman Sadeh | Privacy in the age of AI and the Internet of Things
Dylan Hadfield Menell | You can’t have AI safety without inclusion
zhlédnutí 344Před 5 měsíci
Dylan Hadfield Menell | You can’t have AI safety without inclusion
Geoffrey Hinton | Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?
zhlédnutí 154KPřed 5 měsíci
Geoffrey Hinton | Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?
Pinar Yildirim | Automation, career values, and political preferences
zhlédnutí 242Před 6 měsíci
Pinar Yildirim | Automation, career values, and political preferences
Luke Stark | Conjecture and the right to reasonable inference in AI/ML decision-making
zhlédnutí 183Před 8 měsíci
Luke Stark | Conjecture and the right to reasonable inference in AI/ML decision-making
Beth Simone Noveck | Unlocking collective intelligence: AI’s role in enhancing democracy
zhlédnutí 325Před 8 měsíci
Beth Simone Noveck | Unlocking collective intelligence: AI’s role in enhancing democracy
Arvind Narayanan | Resistance or harm reduction?
zhlédnutí 713Před 9 měsíci
Arvind Narayanan | Resistance or harm reduction?
Marzieh Fadaee | Mastering language understanding with AI: How multilingualism shapes LLMs
zhlédnutí 214Před 9 měsíci
Marzieh Fadaee | Mastering language understanding with AI: How multilingualism shapes LLMs
Shion Guha | Deconstructing risk in predictive risk models
zhlédnutí 163Před 9 měsíci
Shion Guha | Deconstructing risk in predictive risk models
Aaron Hertzmann | Can computers create art?
zhlédnutí 379Před 10 měsíci
Aaron Hertzmann | Can computers create art?
Artificial Intelligence is Here | 8: The future of AI in government
zhlédnutí 487Před 10 měsíci
Artificial Intelligence is Here | 8: The future of AI in government
For an intelligent guy discussing super intelligence its incredibly gullible to cite Trump and Climate change as existential threats. You've been 'played' professor.
My question would be to understand how both the agi computationally and within physical systems like robots affect the immigration of people on the global scale, if we continue to develop physical robots that implies a considerable drop in the need of human beings to help the gdp of the global economies? Thank you everyone for sharing your time and work, Peter, Ray, and the moderator Jillian, really enjoyed this present, peace
Dr. Hinton got history wrong. People didn't think "people are made in the image of God and put in the center of the universe." The earth wasn't exhaulted as the center of the universe, but lowly place (think of the idea of he'll being down below and heaven above).
No introduction needed. Six minutes long.
Mimetic theory is a concept developed by twentieth-century French anthropologist René Girard who saw that human desire is not individual but collective, or social. This has led to conflict and violence throughout human history. we must include in this not only positive mimetic
Super grateful for the Schwartz Reisman Institute, also enjoyed the G.Hinton talk a few months ago!
So many new talks today, Where to begin? Very level headed and unbiased discussions.
1:22:47 good question. But I don’t see any real point in debating if LLMs really understand before we nail down what exactly understand means.
1:18:16 this is a gold question, and a gold answer!
Happy fathers day 👍
This is an insanely good lecture. Congrats to Hinton.
Dunning-Kruger effect in action
You created it and must be responsible for its action on humanity. I find it interesting that people say they don't know how to fix it, shrug their shoulders and go on like curiosity was more important than risk. Fix it, you created it.
A good and valid point, though not saying if I agree.
As with all the mainstream sciences their base understanding of reality is completely wrong. also these academics that are building these ai systems do not have to capacity for the truth in their mainstream world of lies, how could they every build ai with that level of understanding.
Before watching this wonderful lecture and Q&A, I gave the transcript to an llm for a summary and highlights. I got a great and very useful and interesting summary. I just learned how to do this today and I will use this technique a lot. I always watch a video if Geoffrey is in it but for a lot of videos I might be satisfied with a summary, especially if that summary doesn't intrigue me.
A receita é simples: elon musk fabrica carros assassinos comemore os lucros e investe em IAs, agora é só aguardar um futuro próspero.😂
I feel like Douglas Adams was all about this, and way ahead of his time for a writer... besides being immensely hilarious. He actually explains RL really well throughout the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
overrated
My main question is, if this is intelligence assuming a more sophisticated form... what appetites is it satisfying?
A 1 A2 A 3 biopshycal cycle 11:12
His constant comments about Trump and right-wing politics were a bit out of pocket and not relative in some of his replies, but I largely respect his outlook on AI and where everything is going
LLM's have a goal, to give the most probable answer to a prompt. It could be argued that when they hallucinate they are being creative not just mimicking. Actually some models are purposively hallucinating new proteins.
Hallucination is part of the same thing as bias in LLMs and in image models. Bias, as it turns out, is basically everything.
@@natecodesai Everything? What do you mean? Isn't the bias the reflection of what it was trained on and not a hallucination?
Soul chemo
About job-losses.. There's this decades-old 'First Computerlaw': "The number of staff required to feed a computer will always finally exceed the number of staff abolished by it's introduction".
No Daniele, of course you are not the only one who takes a delight in Hintons thoughts, and the beautiful and now and then tongue in cheek - humorous way he expresses himself.
This is so profound. These principles literally explain so much about the world, especially in our corporate system that is wholly driven by the bottom line.
The US govt is remotely "'hacking" human brains. This is no joke. Please take heed. #Justice4TARGETEDINDIVIDUALS
שלום למשה ורדי, אני כותב בעברית כי אני מקווה שאתה תקרא את זה, עם אתה מקבל הודעה שהשאירו לך תגובה בסרטון. הגעתי אליך מראיון שנתת לרועי יוזביץ’ שחלק גדול ממנו לא הבנתי - אני לא בא מהתחום - אבל הבנתי את הרעיון של שילוב החשיבה הלוגית והאינטואיטיבית סיסתם אחד ושנים ושילובם אצלנו ובמחשב. וכך הגעתי גם אל הסרטון הזה שצולם לפני שנה ונראה כאילו לפני מאה. הנושא בו אתה מרצה, האתיקה, פתאום מקבל תפנית מפלצתית. התייחסתי בסרטון אחר Sam Altman: Lex Fridman Podcast #419 ובוא כתבתי שאני מאמין/סבור שסם אלטמן הוא תם .. לצערי אני חושב שתעיתי. אחרי שראיתי איך הוא התמסר למיקרוסופט בניגוד לדעתו של סוצקובר שהבין לאיזה מקום פיתוח הבינה המלאכותית מוביל, ועד כמה שימוש לא מוסרי, שהוא בלתי נמנע בגלל האופי האנושי מוביל, נראה לי שאנחנו במדרון תלול בו מעט חברות עם בעלים חסרי עכבות המנהלים אותן מיקרוסופט פייסבוק אמזון טוויטר - היום איקס - והכי פחות גוגל במרוץ להשתלט על העולם ומשאשביו. קשה לי לראות איך חברות אלה שבעצם גם שולטות בפוליטיקאים יתנו להם לשנות את חוקי המשחק. הברונים השודדים ששלטו בארצות הברית הם משחק ילדים במונופול לעומת מה שקורה היום. האם אני פסימיסט לחשוב שאחרנו את הרכבת? בברכה מכבי ליפשיץ
Dr. Hinton sparked my aspirations for AI. I have much to learn, but I will study every and all things about it.
so good :)
There is no such thing as digital intelligence.
This lecture is gold. He manages to explain complex topics in simple terms without getting overly technical
Thank you very much for sharing this presentation and follow-up q and a, clear and concise description of the problems we're faced with and solutions about how we might solve these problems, if someone stumbles upon this I'd highly recommend you take the time and watch this podcast, thank you again for sharing your time and work, peace
If AI replace human’s job, how human earn money to get food? Are there some jobs for human?
Thanks for this discussion with Prof. Luciano Floridi. First time to hear and see him discuss. His idea about AI as separation between agency and intelligence is new to me, something totally opposite to those of AI scientists and experts that we've heard on CZcams.
Who ordered the TDS?
I love this, extremely accessible and the implied further reading list of references you cited throughout from the book Entitled, to Science and Democracy excites me. This was one of the most complex things I've ever seen, in the positive sense of having a lot to sink your teeth into intellectually, rather than in the sense of being needlessly difficult to understand
Boy, that’s some really weird and borderline incoherent philosophy of mind espoused by Hinton. And his poorly reasoned belief in the subjective experience of chatbots flows from this weird, overly linguistically determined theory of consciousness.
Just a thought. Biological intelligence seems to be a geometric progression when there is prolonged intensity. Digital intelligence seems to be of arithmetic progression when there is prolonged intensity. Digital intelligence seems spectacular but there is hope yet for biological intelligence, all dependent on intensity and length of time.
AI is very overated. It can never arrive at consciousness which Roger Penrose succinctly defined as non- computational. I also object to these comparisons with the human brain. Besides a whole lot of theories neuro-scientists haven't got a clue regards how the brain actually works. There are plenty of scientists who argue that consciousness is foundational and creates the illusion of a brain rather than the other way round.etc,etc
I appreciate Professor McIlraith informing the audience that their questions would end up being posted online, as the presentation was being filmed. That is admirably considerate and conscientious. Some people might not want to ask a question if that means they will be on the net. It should be standard, but don't remember ever hearing someone do that before - and I listen to a lot of lectures online with audience questions at the end.
Currently, I think what is possibly most concerning is AI being used to win wars. As a hypothetical: If Putin had an AI which could guarantee that he could defeat NATO with acceptable losses on his side, he would definitely put that plan into action. I'm sure Western militaries have discussed the possibility of China developing AI for such a hypothetical goal. This then logically leads us into an AI arms race, with, out of possible necessity, little regard for safety. Even at this level of AI development, an existential threat may exist and that is before the AI gets super smart and decides to have done with the human race for its own goals.
Buen avance de la technology Ahora voy hacer un espectador del avance technology y lo religioso me interesa.
I find the host s introduction without any humility and grace.. I don't know how western people cant replace ' semblance of arrogance/arrogant mentality from day to day engagement s...
very good work
AI is the biggest scam ever!
None of the scient7sts ask questions about the rôle of the spirit and soûl and angels which give support or cayse harm or punishment to the human being after instructions from Allah/God.
Correction for the words... scientists.... cause...
"How is compost heap like nuclear bomb?" - Hinton sharp witted as always
At about one minute we get to learn exactly what kind of fundamentalist Hinton actually is. Good self disclosure.
So pleased artificial was not used as the title reference. Thank you
Obviously the atheio-Darwinists would bristle at findings of this sort because it's a refutation of their theological beliefs. Amidst Creation we can see that variation preserves an order that is not random. The inductive approach here finds an apt application. Excellent.