Columbia Engineering and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia are co-hosting panels with multidisciplinary experts to debate artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of public discourse, free expression, and democracy.
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E can aid society in a number of ways, but could also bring a fresh deluge of disinformation, threaten free elections, and destabilize democracies. As these tools become widely available, cheaper, and more powerful, how can self-governing societies limit the potential of generative AI to shape — or distort — public discourse? How might we harness technology to address some of the feared harms resulting from the use of generative AI? Which harms require political solutions? What goals should guide our work over the next decade?
This event will feature several keynote speakers and panel discussions with experts from law, computer science, social science, history, and other disciplines. Our guest speakers will discuss topics ranging from AI and human creativity, information integrity and power and governance.
Co-sponsors: Columbia Engineering and Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia
