Join the Cyber Policy Center on April 1st from 1PM–2PM Pacific for Human-Compatible AI for Digital Media, a seminar with Sandy Pentland. It will be moderated by Jeff Hancock. 

Stanford affiliates are invited to join us at 12:40 PM for lunch, prior to the seminar.  The Spring Seminar Series continues through the end of May; see our Spring Seminar Series page for speakers and topics.

About the Seminar

Human beliefs and norms evolve through a process of collective search and evaluation; the practice of science is a classic example of this sort of collective abductive reasoning.  We can accelerate this search process while protecting human human agency by using AI to accelerate the laborious or inefficient aspects of collective search.   We have have built and tested social media style systems that support improved belief and norm development in the domains of science, patents, law, finance, and democratic deliberation without unduly replacing human judgement. Finally, we have just embarked on a project called “consumer champions” that inverts the standard social media advertising model by using these same methods.
 

About the Speaker:

Sandy Pentland is a Center Fellow at Stanford's HAI. He directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, co-leads the World Economic Forum Big Data and Personal Data initiatives, and is a founding member of the Advisory Boards for Nissan, Motorola Mobility, Telefonica, and a variety of start-up firms. He has previously helped create and direct MIT’s Media Laboratory, the Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Strong Hospital’s Center for Future Health.