What is the AI in Society Workshop?

AI in Society will be an interdisciplinary workshop at Cornell that will focus on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in society, broadly construed.

Research on AI spans multiple disciplines and yet it is difficult for researchers to interact across disciplines, especially those in their early careers. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to discuss both normative and descriptive questions around what it means to live in a society where automated systems play an ever-increasing role. Examples of topics of interest include but are not limited to: the psychology of human-robot interaction, history of AI, policy and legal regulations of AI deployment, ethical questions around automation, how AI may change the nature of professional work and expert decision-making, economic impacts of automation, and technical guarantees about the behaviors of AI systems. 

Attendees do not need an extensive background in AI, rather an interest in the topic and an open mind to interdisciplinary collaboration. This workshop is particularly for researchers in their early careers (graduate students and postdocs), but some events will be open to the larger research community. 

This will be a two-day workshop on October 14th and 15th, 2021. Events will include invited speakers, panel discussions, lightning talks, and informal gatherings. All of the events will be in-person with a virtual component for our remote attendees. 

Keynote speakers


Avery Slater on AI and Creativity
​English Department, University of Toronto



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​Ryan Calo on Public Interest Technology Across Disciplines      
​Law School, University of Washington
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM THE WORKSHOP?

Opportunity to learn from and meet new researchers

The goal of this workshop is for researchers across disciplines at Cornell to engage with each other and possibly form new collaborations! You can listen to a keynote introduce a new line of research, present your own work in an informal setting, learn about research being done at Cornell, and meet new people. We hope that after the workshop, you have learned something new and formed new connections that will continue on throughout your academic career. 
Learn more about each of our panel discussions below

RSVP to the workshop
This event is sponsored by the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative, Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Computer Science Department, Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity, and Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Practice.