China Plate and Staatstheater Mainz present Talking About the Fire, written and presented by Chris Thorpe, award-winning UK playwright. This is part of a series of events marking the 50th anniversary of the Program on Science and Global Security. Includes themes of nuclear warfare and strong language. Sponsorship of an event…
CITP Book Discussion“AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t and How to Tell the Difference” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash KapoorThe discussion will be followed by a reception from 4 – 5 p.m. in the CITP open space.The book is available to purchase online and at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street.
Open source AI models can play a vital role in promoting transparency, competition, and experimentation in AI. Two-thirds of recent foundation models were released openly, and popular repositories now boast over a million open models – spanning everything from robotics and climate prediction to text, image, and voice generation…
Abstract: We employ an at-scale randomized experiment to evaluate how one of the world's largest citizen-led monitoring efforts, India's ``social audits'' initiative, impacted corruption and access to social protection in one of India's poorest states. A unique feature is the program's reliance on female auditors drawn from…