Science, Technology, and Public Policy

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.

Once considered "flyover country at the edge of the world," the Arctic, the Antarctic, and their associated marine environments are emerging as regions for exploration, exploitation, and extraction - as well as active arenas for geopolitical competition between polar and near-polar states. How that competition plays out will have serious ramifications for environmental, political, economic, and human security and stability around the globe. 

Please join the Arctic Initiative for a book talk featuring Douglas Causey, Arctic Initiative Associate and Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Christian Leuprecht, Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership at the Royal Military College of Canada. Drawing from their new book, Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures, co-editors Causey and Leuprecht will  discuss the impacts of geopolitics and climate change on national and international security interests in both polar regions, as well as the lessons learned from the Arctic experience for addressing challenges relating to governance, environmental protection, and maritime operations in the Antarctic.

Arctic Initiative Co-Director John P. Holdren will moderate. Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Attendance: In-person attendance is limited to Harvard ID holders; no RSVP required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first serve 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: The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page (typically one week later). Those who register for this event will automatically receive a link to the recording as soon as it becomes available.

Accessibility: Persons with disabilities who wish to request accommodations or who have questions about access, please contact Elizabeth 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.

The Bering Strait region is a particularly unique area - one of the Arctic's most productive and sensitive environments but also a region increasingly facing pressure and challenges. Amidst an upheaval in relations between Russia and the other Arctic states exist transboundary risks associated with increased vessel activity, which continue to advance despite these deteriorated conditions.  

Please join the Harvard Kennedy School's Arctic Initiative, the Wilson Center's Polar Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund for a virtual workshop on transboundary risk management in the Bering Strait region.

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP using the link below. For those who cannot attend live, the seminar will be recorded and available to watch on this page.

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.

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.