Data Science Institute
Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign

Engage With Us

We engage researchers at all stages of education and in a range of disciplines.

Engage With Us

We engage researchers at all stages of education and in a range of disciplines.

Please contact us at cntr-info@brown.edu if you’d like to be involved with the CNTR. Join a reading group or let us know if you are interested in a research project. There are occasionally undergraduate research assistant positions available.

The CNTR is forming an undergraduate group, which is a student-led group dedicated to exploring issues of technological responsibility through a reading group, research projects, or any other activity that the group would like to pursue, with CNTR faculty support. 

CNTR Reading Group

We read and discuss sociotechnical papers that address problems at the collision between technology and society--with topics that include privacy, surveillance, algorithmic fairness, and AI governance and policy

Held of Thursdays, 12-1pm, Data Science Institute (164 Angell St, Floor 3), Room 370

Attend on Zoom:  https://brown.zoom.us/j/93713168428

Fall Schedule

This fall's seminar series is being organized by Rui-Jie Yew (rui-jie_yew@brown.edu)

DatePresenterTitle
9/26Shomik Jain (MIT IDSS)As an AI Language Model, “Yes I Would Recommend Calling the Police”: Norm Inconsistency in LLM Decision-Making 
 Aurora Zhang (MIT IDSS)Structural Interventions and the Dynamics of Inequality 
10/3Dr. Nasim Sonboli (Brown CS/DSI/CNTR) The trade-off between data minimization and fairness in collaborative filtering
10/10Stephen Casper (MIT EECS)Technical and sociotechnical evaluations of LLMs
10/17Rui-Jie Yew (Brown CS/DSI/CNTR)You Still See Me: How Data Protection Supports the Architecture of AI Surveillance
10/24Dora Zhao (Stanford CS)TBD 
10/31Palak Jain (BU CS)TBD 
11/7David Liu (Northeastern CS)TBD 
11/14Edgar Ramirez Sanchez (MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering)TBD 
11/21Minseok Jung (MIT TPP)TBD 
11/28Thanksgiving Recess 
12/5Princess Sampson (UPenn)TBD 
12/12

Zoë Bell (UC Berkeley)

Holiday Lunch/ Fin

TBD