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This course will provide a taste of the curriculum for DSI and SPS's upcoming Online MS program in Data Policy and Governance, starting Fall 2025.
Researchers at the CNTR published two papers at the 2024 AAAI-ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.
August 26, 2024
News from DSI
2024 Incoming CCMB and CNTR PhD students
Meet the incoming PhD students who will be joining CCMB and CNTR this year.
Artificial intelligence is propelling advances in all areas of science. But vigilance is needed, warn four researchers at the leading edge.
Brown Computer Science News
Diana Freed Joins Brown CS And CNTR As Assistant Professor
Diana Freed joins Brown CS and Brown’s Data Science Institute as an assistant professor. Diana is involved in an emerging area of computer science focused on building and designing technologies specifically to improve online safety and well-being for vulnerable and marginalized populations globally.
May 30, 2024
News from DSI
A minute with Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Get to know Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute, Professor of Data Science and Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign.
May 16, 2024
News From Cogut
“Models-Scale-Context: AI and the Humanities” to Be First Collaborative Humanities Lab at Cogut
The Cogut Institute launches its collaborative humanities lab program with a three-year project exploring AI.
Congratulations to CCMB and CNTR’s doctoral candidates who successfully defended their dissertations this year!
CNTR Substack Blog
Seeking Harmony in AI Governance
On Thursday, March 28, 2024, the White House Office of Management and Budget released a memo for heads of federal agencies outlining additional guidance for the use of artificial intelligence (AI), supplementing Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence from October of last year. The guidance is noteworthy as it signifies the first binding rules for the federal government’s use of AI, reinforcing a commitment to AI governance that protects the rights and safety of the public, including further details on AI risk management, safeguards in AI procurement, and public inventories of AI code and data. While details still remain to be ironed out regarding how agencies will implement the guidance, Vice-President Kamala Harris applauded the memo in her remarks, stating that the Biden administration hopes to leverage these domestic policies internationally to serve as a model for global action.
CNTR Substack Blog
NYDFS drafts circular letter regarding the use of data and AI in insurance
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is the agency responsible for regulating financial services and products sold in New York and enforcing the New York State laws which apply to their providers. The agency recently issued a proposed circular letter regarding the use of artificial intelligence and consumer data in insurance and has requested public feedback on its contents. It builds on a previous, much vaguer circular letter issued in 2019, which pertains only to life insurance providers.
CNTR Substack Blog
Why chatbots are not search, part 367
On Google, Gemini, and generative AI
November 2, 2023
News from Brown
Old concept, new implications: Brown scholars interrogate how AI is changing the world
The inaugural discussion in a series convened by Brown’s Office of the Provost and Data Science Institute detailed the history of artificial intelligence and new questions generative AI is raising.