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President Jimmy Carter along with George M. Seignious, right, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency briefs community leaders on SALT II at the White House in Washington, Oct. 12, 1979.

AP/Charles Tasnadi

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

A Strange Arms Debate: Legitimation, Essential Equivalence, and Carter's Nuclear Strategy

Thu., Feb. 1, 2024 | 12:15pm - 1:45pm

One Brattle Square - Room 350

Speaker: Colleen Larkin, Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

President Jimmy Carter entered office committed to reducing the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy. He espoused the logic of mutually assured destruction and hoped for major arms control progress. Yet by the end of his presidency, he had embraced a competitive nuclear posture and accelerated the arms race. What explains this shift in Carter’s strategy? 

Open to Harvard ID Holders Only: Admittance will be on a first come–first served basis. Coffee &Tea Provided.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Cathy O'Neil on "Auditing AI: The Adversarial, the Invitational, and the Regulatory"

Wed., Nov. 30, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Josephine Wolff on "The History of Cyberinsurance & War Exclusions"

Wed., Nov. 16, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Caitriona Fitzgerald on "The State of AI Regulation"

Wed., Nov. 9, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Nazli Choucri on "Toward Securing the Long Chain of Global Communication Infrastructure"

Wed., Nov. 2, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Bruce Schneier on "The Coming AI Hackers"

Wed., Oct. 26, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Taubman Building - Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor

What will happen when AI systems learn to hack our economic, social, and political systems—and even our brains?

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Bruce Schneier, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Fellow at both the Belfer Center and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Drawing on his essay, "The Coming AI Hackers," Schneier will discuss the implications of a world of AI hackers and point towards possible defenses.

Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served. Please note the change in location to Allison Dining Room.

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Elissa Redmiles on "Learning from the People"

Wed., Oct. 19, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

When and how can we use the perceptions of lay people to evaluate and improve the fairness of features used in machine learning classifiers?

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and a Visiting Scholar at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Redmiles will give a talk entitled, "Learning from the People: Using People's Perceptions to Evaluate AI Fairness."

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Ifeoma Ajunwa on "The Quantified Worker"

Wed., Oct. 12, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

Join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Ifeoma Ajunwa, Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Drawing from her forthcoming book, The Quantified Worker, Ajunwa will discuss the role of technology in the workplace and its effects on management practices as moderated by employment law.

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Cindy Cohn on "Civil Liberties, AI, Cybersecurity and You"

Wed., Oct. 5, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

Join us for an Artificial Intelligence/Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn will give a talk entitled "Civil Liberties, AI, Cybersecurity and You."

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.

Seminar - Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

AI Cyber Lunch: Ryan Ellis on "Bounty Everything? Remaking and Rethinking Security Work"

Wed., Sep. 28, 2022 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Wexner Building - Room 434 A-B

How can bug bounty programs be reimagined to ensure an equitable and secure future?

Join us for an Artificial Intelligence/Cyber Lunch Seminar featuring Ryan Ellis, Associate Professor of Communications Studies at Northeastern University. Ellis will give a talk entitled "Bounty Everything? Remaking and Rethinking Security Work."

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.