Jeff Howard presents work at American Political Science Association annual conference.
Jeffrey Howard presented his paper “Moderation by Machine” at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia.
Sarah Fisher presents at workshop on social norms and oppressive structures
Sarah Fisher presented a paper co-authored with Jeffrey Howard and Beatriz Kira, “Moderating synthetic content” at a workshop on social norms and oppressive structures in Manchester: https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:e8t-lw7jrp3p-mv3ka1/social-norms-and-oppressive-structures.
Sarah Fisher presents at Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference
Sarah Fisher presented her paper “Large language models and their big bullshit potential” at the Society for Applied Philosophy’s Annual Conference, which took place in Oxford: https://www.appliedphil.org/society-for-applied-philosophy-annual-conference-2024/
Lab runs workshop on Communication in the Digital Age.
A two day workshop exploring new work on communication in the digital age.
Sarah Fisher presents at workshop on genre and conversation
Dr. Sarah Fisher presented her paper “Synthetic self-editing” at a workshop on genre and conversation, which took place in Reykjavik: https://sites.google.com/view/genreandconversation/home
Lab co-runs workshop in Oxford on Social Media Corporations: Risks, Rights, Responsibilities
The Digital Speech Lab has co-organised a two-day workshop, in conjunction with the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, to be hosted at Magdalen College, Oxford. You can find the full schedule here:
Sarah Fisher presents paper at workshop on the pragmatics and epistemology of online communication
Dr. Sarah Fisher presented her paper “Framing ourselves online” at a workshop on the pragmatics and epistemology of online communication, which was co-hosted by the LOGOS research group in logic, language, and cognition, based at Barcelona University, and the Philosophy Department at Cardiff University.
Jeff Howard presents paper at Dartmouth College Moral & Political Philosophy Workshop
Jeffrey Howard presented excerpts from his book manuscript at Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute at its annual Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop: https://ethics-institute.dartmouth.edu/news-events/annual-events/moral-and-political-philosophy-workshop
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj presents a paper at Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference in the United States
Dr. Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj presented a paper at the 81st Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MSPA) Conference in Chicago, USA. The paper titled ““One Earth, One Family, One Future” The G20 Summit in India 2023” examined Facebook use and user engagement with posts during the G20 event to understand digital communication and new public diplomacy, and its implications for electoral gain.
Howard & Fisher present paper at Yale Law School
Sarah Fisher and Jeffrey Howard presented their paper, co-authored with Beatriz Kira, on “Moderation Misinformation: The Challenge of Generative AI” at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project: https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/propaganda-and-emerging-technologies
Lab and Demos launch joint report “Synthetic Politics: Preparing Democracy for Generative AI”
Members of the Digital Speech Lab collaborated with the UK’s leading cross-party thinktank Demos to produce an extensive policy report, “Synthetic Politics: Preparing Democracy for Generative AI.”
You can read the report here: https://demos.co.uk/research/synthetic-politics-preparing-democracy-for-generative-ai/
Sarah Fisher presents paper at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting
Dr. Sarah Fisher presented her paper “Something AI should tell you - the case for labelling synthetic content” as part of a symposium on content moderation held at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting in Portland, OR: https://www.apaonline.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1533436
Jeff Howard presents paper at Australian National University workshop on Generative AI
Jeffrey Howard presented a paper “Platforming Synthetic Speech” at ANU’s Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory Lab: https://mintresearch.org/
Sarah Fisher presents paper at University of Reading Visiting Speaker Series
Dr. Sarah Fisher presented her paper “Large language models and their big bullshit potential” at the University of Reading’s Visiting Speaker Series in Philosophy.
Jeff Howard presents paper at NYU-Abu Dhabi
Jeffrey Howard presented his paper “Moderating Machines” to the Center on Cybersecurity at NYU-Abu Dhabi..
Lab and Demos run workshop on Generative AI
The Digital Speech Lab and Demos ran a closed discussion with a range of policymakers, regulators, industry professionals, and civil society organisations on the challenges facing our digital information system from generative AI. The event had two core conversations - the first focusing on the obligations of companies producing public-facing generative AI tools, the second focusing on the downstream obligations of social media platforms.
Beatriz Kira writes primer on Online Safety Act
Beatriz Kira has co-authored A Primer on the UK Online Safety Act (with Laura Schertel Mendes), with particular attention to the differences between this law and the EU’s Digital Services Act: https://verfassungsblog.de/a-primer-on-the-uk-online-safety-act/
Louisa Bartolo and co-authors post on "Exploring Tradeoffs in Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms"
Louisa Bartolo (Research Associate) has co-authored a Lawfare article “Exploring Tradeoffs in Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms” with senior policy staff at Meta:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/exploring-tradeoffs-in-ranking-and-recommendation-algorithms
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj presents at the 76th World Association for Public Opinion Research Conference in Austria
Dr. Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj presented his paper “Partisans Issues and Digital Media in the UK 2017 and 2019 General Election Campaigns” at the 76th Annual World Association for Public Opinion Research Conference, held in Salzburg, Austria. The theme of the conference was Public Opinion Research in a Technology-Driven World.
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj speaks at American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting in the United States
Dr. Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj presented two papers and a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (ASPA) in Los Angeles, USA. First on fact-checker labels on Facebook at the pre-conference in Political Communication, second on the effectiveness of fact-checker labels on spread of misinformation on Facebook, and a poster on public attitudes towards and engagement with misinformation.
Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj gives a lecture at American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting Short Course in the United States
Dr. Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj gives a lecture in a Half Day Short Course on “Public Opinion, Social Media, Misinformation & Elections” during the APSA Annual Meeting.
This short course brings together scholars and practitioners conducting research on public opinion, social media, misinformation and elections, to discuss the latest research and the challenges and opportunities working in Global South countries.
Topics Include:
1. Deliberative Polling
2. Polling and Forecasting Elections
3. Misinformation Research & Survey Experiments
4. Meta (Facebook) Ad Library
5. Social Media and Political Advertising
Beatriz Kira presents at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Meeting in Brazil
Dr Beatriz Kira presented at the 2023 Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with the theme “Socio-Economics in a Transitioning World: Breaking Lines and Alternative Paradigms for a New World Order.” She presented a paper on asymmetric antitrust regulation within digital markets.
Jeff Howard speaks at workshop on harmful content in Manchester
Dr Jeffrey Howard spoke at a workshop hosted by the University of Manchester titled “Harmful Content (offline and online): Challenges and Ways Out” on the ethics of automated censorship.
Sarah Fisher speaks at the 97th Joint Session in London
Dr Sarah Fisher spoke at the 97th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association — the UK’s leading general philosophy conference, which took place at Birbeck, the University of London.
Sarah Fisher speaks at Society for Applied Philosophy Conference in Belgium
Dr Sarah Fisher attended and spoke at the 2023 Society for Applied Philosophy Conference, held in Antwerp, Belgium by the University of Antwerp.
Lab hosts workshop on Platform Punishments: Suspensions Policy on Social Media
The Digital Speech Lab hosts researchers from philosophy, social science, computer science, and law to discuss normative and empirical insights on how platforms should sanction users who violate their rules, engaging with teams at Meta and the Oversight Board.
Beatriz Kira presents at the Annual Law & Society Meeting in Puerto Rico
Dr Beatriz Kira presented a paper on proportionality in content moderation at the 2023 Annual Law & Society Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico under the theme of “Separate and Unequal.”