HAI Seminars

Brian Cantwell Smith is Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the...

Thomas Dimson is the original author of “The Algorithm” — the recommender systems behind Instagram's feed, stories and discovery surfaces. He joined Instagram as one of it's first 50 employees in 2013...

Algorithmic tools are transforming our daily lives, but journalism is still playing catch up. As in other times of global transition, news consumers are anxious that artificial intelligence will...

This talk develops the proposal that a central – and neglected – ethical challenge for the field of AI is demystification of the techniques and technologies that constitute it.

Recent advances of artificial intelligence and deep learning have been undoubtedly driven by a large amount of data amassed over the years, helping firms, researchers, and practitioners achieve many...

The content shared on social media is among the largest data sets on human behavior in history. I leverage this data to address questions in the psychological sciences. Specifically, I apply natural...