After the Twelve Day War of June 2025 in which Israel and U.S. attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, relations between Washington and Tehran have entered their most dangerous and decisive period since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. This talk will explore if this crisis has opened a new path toward US-Iran dialogue—or whether the…
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…
