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Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 12:00PM-1:30PM - Baker Hall 405Leveraging Procedural Justice to Shape Online Norms and Rule Following
Matt Katsaros, Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative within the Justice Collaboratory
Caroline Nobo, Executive Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School
Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School
Online platforms of all sizes spend considerable resources towards content moderation apparatuses aimed at enforcing rules and decreasing unwanted antisocial interactions. Five years ago, the Justice Collaboratory began the Social Media Governance Initiative to understand how we can translate the theories and ideas developed over decades in the criminal-legal arena on building trust and legitimacy into our online spaces. In this talk, we will share some of our research conducted during this time in collaboration with platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Nextdoor looking at how to build community vitality in our online world by leveraging procedural justice theory and the social sciences more broadly.
The presentation will be led by Tom Tyler, Caroline Sarnoff, and Matt Katsaros. Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, as well as a Co-Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory. Caroline Nobo is a Research Scholar in Law and Executive Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. Matt Katsaros is a researcher and the Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative within the Justice Collaboratory.
AI Risks and OpportunitiesWe will go out to dinner afterwards at Villa Lulu, 230 College Street. We will have an in-person lottery in class on Wednesday to select students coming to dinner.In an age of digital disruption and uncertainties, it is essential to understand the new challenges facing us and to shape the right strategies. We need to be better at analysing the present and designing the future. This is particularly true in the business of risks and opportunities raised by AI, which is both a crucial element in the development of a fair and sustainable society and one of the most challenging aspects of a fast-paced digital transition.
Luciano Floridi is the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale University. He is world-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy, the founder of the philosophy of information, and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. His most recent books are The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence – Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (OUP, 2023) and The Green and The Blue – Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age (Wiley, 2023). His more than 300 works about the philosophy of information, digital ethics, the ethics of AI, and the philosophy of technology have been translated into many languages. In 2022 he was made Knight of the Grand Cross OMRI for his foundational work in philosophy.
This lecture will be virtual, probably over zoom. Alas, there will be no dinner.
See Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence John Searle, talk at Google. See 9 minutes in for discussion of cognitive science and Sloan talks at Yale.
See Minds, brains, and programs John R. Searle, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1980).
See Conceptual Dependency and Its Descendants Steven Lytinen, 1992.
One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe threatened to hit Irving if he didn’t tell him where some honey was.One day Joe Bear was hungry. He asked his friend Irving Bird where some honey was. Irving told him there was a beehive in the oak tree. Joe walked to the oak tree. He ate the beehive.