Faculty

An Environmental History of AI

Nov. 21, 2024—Laura Stark, 2024-25 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future AI has emerged as a massive technical and scientific innovation in the past thirty years, to the extent that historians now treat AI as a driving force of history—on the order...

November 20, “This Is How It Always Is”

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October 18, featuring Ajay Batra

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Cognitive Biases in Large Language Models

Sep. 27, 2024—David Thorstad, 2024-25 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future It is often held that humans fall prey to a number of cognitive biases. For example, we may react differently to different framings of the same decision problem, or may anchor...

September 20, featuring Sam Finkelman

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September 24, featuring Adeana McNicholl

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Life-Affirming Cycling Practices in Quito, Ecuador

Aug. 23, 2024—Julie Gamble, 2024-25 RPW Center Faculty Fellow. This year’s group is exploring the theme of Emerging Technologies in Human Context: Past, Present, and Future Daisi held her right arm in the air with a closed fist, a common signal for cyclists to use when coming to a stop. We stopped at her request and had...

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