Description of Event
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion have captured global attention. As the popularity of generative AI grows, we are convening a symposium at UBC to ask: What are these technologies? How can this technology be used in social science and humanities research? What legal, ethical and social justice dilemmas does this pose?
This symposium will include a hands-on training workshop; panel discussions on the use of AI in academic research; and a keynote discussion, "Can democracy survive AI?”
Speakers and panelists include:
- Graham Reynolds (Associate Dean, Research and International; Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law)
- Ethan Busby (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young)
- Dongwook Yoon (Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, UBC)
- Laura Nelson (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director of the Centre for Computational Social Science, UBC).
- Ife Adebara (PhD candidate, Department of Linguistics)
- Laurie McNeill (Associate Dean, Students; Professor of Teaching, Department of English Language and Literatures)
- Chris Tenove (Interim Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions; Research Associate and Instructor, School of Public Policy & Global Affairs)
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, Professor in the School of Communication, and Director of the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University)
- Fenwick McKelvey (Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy, Concordia University; co-director of the Applied AI Institute.)
View the full event details and register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/querying-ai-tickets-731487768607. Please note you can register for any or all of the symposium’s three sessions.
- Research
- General Public
- All Students
- Alumni
- Faculty
- Graduate Students
- JD
- Staff
- Research Talks
