Russia’s preparation for malicious cyber activities began long before the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. In fact, one could argue that preparations and operations have been executing for more than a decade. 

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Melissa Hathaway, President of Hathaway Global Strategies and former Senior Advisor to the Belfer Center's Cyber Project. In a talk entitled "Malicious Cyber Activities: Russia-Ukraine and the Surrounding Territories," Hathaway will discuss how Russia has honed its precision operations through a sophisticated execution and conquer of targets and access.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Marc Rotenberg, founder and president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy. Rotenberg will give a talk entitled "The Emergence of Legal Norms for the Governance of AI."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Piotr Sapiezynski, Associate Research Scientist at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. In a talk entitled "Discrimination Through Optimization," Sapiezynski will discuss the role of online advertising platforms' delivery optimization processes in perpetuating - and potentially preventing - discrimination in digital advertising.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Would you pay to wear an ankle monitor? How about a Fitbit?

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Chris Gilliard, Professor of English at Macomb Community College. In a talk entitled "Luxury Surveillance," Gilliard will discuss the proliferation of devices that people pay for and whose tracking, monitoring, and quantification features are understood by the user as benefits - as well as how those devices can and are being leveraged against people by their employers, the government, their neighbors, stalkers, and domestic abusers. 

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring civil rights attorney Peter Romer-Friedman, a principal at Gupta Wessler PLLC. Romer-Friedman will give a talk entitled "The Fight for a Future Free of Digital Redlining."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

When algorithms fall short of articulated expectations, people get hurt. Algorithm audits can help hold those who build artificial intelligence (AI) systems accountable for the consequences of their actions.

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Deborah Raji, Mozilla Fellow and CS PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Raji will give a talk entitled "Audits and Accountability in the Age of Automated Decision Systems."

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Cathy O'Neil, Program Fellow with the Belfer Center's Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program. In a talk entitled, "Auditing AI: The Adversarial, the Invitational, and the Regulatory," O'Neil will explain approaches to three emerging types of algorithmic auditing, which correspond to investigations by law enforcement agencies, internal values alignments and compliance by corporations, and creation and enforcement of rules by regulatory bodies. 

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Josephine Wolff, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. In a talk entitled, "The History of Cyberinsurance & War Exclusions: Who Pays for State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks?" Wolff will explore what constitutes cyberwar and when cyberinsurance carriers are obligated to pay for damages linked to state-sponsored attacks - an increasingly important issue in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served. 

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Caitriona Fitzgerald, Deputy Director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In a talk entitled, "The State of AI Regulation," Fitzgerald will discuss how the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making is currently regulated at the state and federal level, as well as what types of laws and regulations are needed to protect individuals against algorithmic harm and to increase transparency and accountability.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Well over 95% of today's Internet communication is transmitted through undersea cables, submerged networks that most of us take for granted. But how secure are these flows?

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science at MIT. In a talk entitled, "Toward Securing the Long Chain of Global Communication Infrastructure," Choucri will discuss flows, choke points, and interesting patterns that emerge in the global communication infrastructure.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: In-person attendance is limited to current Harvard ID holders. No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Members of the public are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link. 

Recording: Please be advised that this seminar will not be recorded.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.