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‘Generative AI and the Future of Humanity’ the Topic of Spring Lecture March 6

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, By Wendy S. Loughlin
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Rumman Chowdhury

Data scientist and artificial intelligence (AI) expert Rumman Chowdhury will visit campus on Wednesday, March 6, as the featured speaker for the University’s annual Spring Lecture. Her talk, “Generative AI and the Future of Humanity,” will begin at 7 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium.

Chowdhury’s remarks will touch on how AI will impact the lives of students, what policymakers have missed—both positively and negatively—that will significantly affect students and what bearing AI will have on the upcoming U.S. election cycle.

Chowdhury will also participate in a Q&A session with Jamie Winders, associate provost for faculty affairs, and Hamid Ekbia, University professor and director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

The event is free and open to the public, but a ticket will be required for entry. Additionally, the University’s clear bag policy will be enforced.

Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is the CEO of the tech nonprofit Humane Intelligence, which builds a community of practice around evaluations of AI models. She is also the Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Previously, Chowdhury was the director of the Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team at Twitter (now X), as well as the global lead for responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence. She was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, BBC’s 100 Women, Worthy Magazine’s Top 100, recognized by San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40 and named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI.

Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in quantitative methods of the social sciences from Columbia University and a doctorate in political science from the University of California San Diego.

Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be available. For more information, or to request additional accommodations, contact Sarah McAndrew at provost@syr.edu.

Tickets can be purchased online from the Syracuse University Student Box Office.

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