As part of the 25th anniversary of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD), the university community and members of the public are invited to join an international colloquium on the Global Food and Water Security Project as well as advanced techniques in agriculture, forestry, and water stewardship.
Far and away the most prominent and practically influential approach to AI ethics to date is the paradigm of algorithmic fairness. Machine learning applied in high stakes contexts is an epistemic activity, aimed at inference over real world data and hence real world systems. The paradigm of ML fairness is a second-order…
While researchers have long noted that people anthropomorphize computers, LLM-based chatbots represent a qualitative shift; they are the first technology that can engage in genuinely human-like conversations. In this talk, Jeremy Foote will discuss how the ongoing integration of LLMs into our social worlds is creating new risks…
Forty years ago last month, about 70 climate scientists and environmental policy analysts convened in the Austria town of Villach for a conference organized under the auspices of UNEP, the WMO and ICSU titled, ‘An Assessment of the Role of Carbon Dioxide and of Other Greenhouse Gases in Climate Variations and Associated Impacts…
Reforms and good governance are essential pillars of a well-functioning society. In today’s discussion, our panelists will examine how leaders design and implement large-scale reforms to achieve functional institutions, foster economic development, and enhance service delivery. The panelists will also draw key lessons from case…
Sam Gill, President and CEO, Doris Duke FoundationWe are living through an historically unprecedented assault on the structure and status of the public and private institutions that comprise our modern liberal democracy. Why are our institutions under such vitriolic attack? How can they be defended? What does this moment…
This talk draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between January 2024 and March 2025 at Colorado Independent Drivers United’s (CIDU’s) deactivation clinic to examine how gig workers attempt to repair algorithmic harms in platform labor, specifically focusing on the implications for local government enforcement capacity…