All meetings until further notice will be on Wednesdays 12:15 – 1:30 online. Access codes for individual meetings are available by contacting pwh2a@virginia.edu
spring 2021
| date | participants / speaker | topic |
| Wed February 3 |
Natasha Foutz (UVA Commerce), Meghanath Macha (College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University) | Prosocial Applications and Ethics of Location Big Data |
| Wed February 10 |
Madhav Marathe (UVA Biocomplexity Institute) | A Computational Theory of Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation |
| Wed February 17 |
No session (reading day) | |
| Wed February 24 |
Yezhou Yang (Computer Science, Arizona State University) | Visual Recognition beyond Appearances, and its Robotic Applications |
| Wed March 3 |
Fiona Greenland (Sociology, UVA) and Michelle Fabiani (Homeland Security Program, Desales University) | Automated Detection of Looters’ Pits in Archaeological Sites: Challenges in the Human-Machine Satellite Paradigm |
| Wed March 10 |
Maya Ramani (Computer Science, UVA)
Rob Schwartz (Systems Engineering/Latin American Studies, UVA) |
Can Patterns in Mystery Novels be Predicted?
User-Driven Re-Modeling of Social Media Applications |
| Wed March 17 |
Allan Dafoe (Oxford FHI Centre for the Governance of AI) | Cooperative AI |
| Wed March 24 |
Ed Freeman and Bobby Parmar (Darden School of Business, UVA) | AI and Business Ethics |
| Wed March 31 |
John Danaher (NUI Galway) | Automation, Work and Human Flourishing |
| Wed April 7 |
No session | |
| Wed April 14 |
Zac Irving, Elyse Oakley (Philosophy, UVA)
Yanjun Qi (Computer Science, UVA) |
Philosophical Intuitions as Sampling Evaluating Robustness of Natural Language Processing with Adversarial Examples |
| Wed April 21 |
No session | |
| Wed April 28 |
Ajay Agrawal (UToronto Rotman) | Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Commercial Innovation |
| Wed May 12 |
Justin Bullock (Texas A&M) | Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Evil |
fall 2020
| date | participants / speaker | topic |
| Wed Sept 2 |
Bill Wilhelm (McIntire School of Commerce, UVA) | Human Judgment, Algorithms, and the Tension Between Economics and Ethics on Wall Street |
| Wed Sep 9 |
Humanities Informatics Lab Showcase Panel: Ashley Deeks (Law, UVA), Anton Korinek (Economics, UVA), Dan Spitzner (Statistics, UVA) | Predicting Enemies (Deeks), AI and the Future of Work (Korinek), Socially-Inclusive Foundations of Statistics.(Spitzner) |
| Wed Sep 16 |
Bert Huang (CS, Tufts) | Surviving the Growing Data Cost of Machine Learning |
| Wed Sep 23 |
Vicente Ordonez (CS, UVA) | Face Recognition Technologies in the Wild: A Call for a Federal Office |
| Wed Sep 30 |
Tom Griffiths (Director, Computational Cognitive Science Lab, Princeton University) | Scaling Theory and Data for Decision-Making |
| Wed Oct 7 12-1:30 |
Joint session with the Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford. | AI and Economic Growth |
| Wed Oct 14 |
Joseph Kadane (Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University) | Bayesian Epistemology |
| Thursday Oct 15 2-3:15 |
Joseph Kadane (Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University) |
Systemic Racism in the Administration of the Law: A Statistical View. (Round table discussion)
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| Wed Oct 21 |
Katya Klinova (Partnership on AI , San Francisco) | AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative |
| Wed Oct 28 |
Johannes Lenhard (Philosophy/Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) |
Prediction, Bayes, and Rationality |
| Wed Nov 4 11-12 |
Joint session with Partnership on AI, San Francisco |
summer 2020
| date | participants / speaker | topic |
| Wed June 3 | Christian McMillen (History, UVA)Judy Giering (Learning Design and Technology, UVA)Anton Korinek (Economics, UVA) | Panel and discussion on Post-Covid Universities |
| Wed July 22 | HMI online social | |
| Wed August 5 | Debjani Ganguly (English/ Humanities Informatics Lab) | Pandemic Simulation and the Incalculability of the Real |
fall 2019, spring 2020 previous semesters schedules
| date | participants / speaker | topic |
| Wed 4 Sept | Raf Alvarado (UVA Data Science Institute)[slides] | Presentation on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism ( Joint session with the HIL Surveillance Group) |
| Wed 11 Sept | Robin Hanson (Economics, George Mason University and Oxford Future of Humanity Institute)[slides] | Where Does Automation Win, in the Short And Very Long Run? |
| Wed 18 Sept | Greg Wheeler (Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Director Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence)[slides] | Prolegomenon to Machine Epistemology |
| Wed 25 Sept | Juan Carlos Caicedo (Broad Institute, Cambridge Mass)[slides] | Visual Recognition for Quantitative Biology |
| Wed Oct 2 | Zac Irving (Philosophy) | Beyond Importance: Exploration as an Attention Norm |
| Wed Oct 9 | Haifeng Xu (Computer Science, UVA) | The Complex Roles of Information in Strategic Interactions |
| Wed Oct 9 | (CS special lecture)10:30 a.m. Rice Hall 242Nicholas Weaver Researcher, ICSI Lecturer, CS, UC Berkeley | Reflecting on Internet Surveillance and Control |
| Wed Oct 16 | Deborah Hellman (Law, UVA) | Algorithmic Fairness |
| Friday Oct 25 12:15-1:30 Wilson 142 | Cameron Buckner (Philosophy, University of Houston) | The Comparative Psychology of Artificial Intelligences |
| Wed Nov 6 | Worthy Martin (CS/IATH UVA), Chip Levy (Neurosurgery UVA), Vicente Ordonez-Roman (CS), Cameron Buckner (Philosophy, University of Houston) | Panel + audience discussion on adversarial examples in AI |
| Wed Nov 20 | Paul Humphreys (Philosophy, UVA) | Some Thoughts About the Epistemic Dimensions of Contemporary AI and Data |
| Wed Jan 22 | Natasha Foutz (UVA Commerce School) | Applications of Machine Learning to Marketing Big Data. |
| Wed Feb 5 | Catherine Schuman (Oak Ridge National Lab)[slides] | Neuromorphic Computing and ML |
| Wed Feb 12 | John Basl (Philosophy, Northeastern University) | Computer Ethics |
| Wed Feb 19 | Jordan Rodu (UVA Statistics)[slides] | The Principled Prediction-Problem Ontology:When Black Box Algorithms Are (Not) Appropriate |
| Wed Feb 26 | John Chamberlin (Observatory Group) | AI, Financial Markets, and the Future of Work |
| Wed Mar 4 | Sarah Brayne (Sociology, UT Texas) | Data and Discretion in 21st-Century Policing |
| Rest of Spring meetings cancelled due to COVID-19 |