This day's sessions introduce AI Literacy Interest Group, focusing on the relationship between AI, gender, multilingualism, & the environment. The lightning talks will be followed by a round table discussion, then a showcase of the rare book manuscripts with these themes. Stick around for fun activities and socializing.
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This is a Multidisciplinary Tech Literacy Interest Group. Attendees are not required to use AI or study Machine Learning to drop by. There are no disciplinary bounds. The only prerequisites are curiosity and enthusiasm for learning. You are welcome to join us for particular sessions or for the entire event.
Related Libguide: AI Ethics.
Note: Zoom option will be available to registrants. Online participation in the sessions is limited. The event will be recorded and published in the AI Ethics Libguide.
To kick off the event, Jaj and Eug will set the stage for the rest of the day. We will share the mission statement, our guiding principles, including digital land acknowledgments, and the day's packed schedule.
With extensive experience in data storytelling, natural language processing, computational social sciences, data visualization, network analysis, and knowledge mining (text/data/etc), Jaj engages with researchers across the disciplines interested in employing these techniques.
Eug Xu works as a Data Science & Society Research Assistant at Research Data and Digital Scholarship. They are a third-year undergraduate in History working towards a minor in the Digital Humanities.
A brief overview of the events surrounding the publication of the paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜", its contents, and the current state of costs of LLMs.
Andy works with project partners as the server-side programmer and technical lead on data-intensive digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. Andy has a PhD in Russian history from the University of Chicago and has experience using natural language processing and computer vision to analyze large historical document collections.
This session offers perspectives on data and artificial intelligence that emerge from and are located outside of North America and Europe.
Kim Fernandes is a joint PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research examines the politics, practices, and processes of being counted as disabled. They also have an MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania, an EdM in international education policy from Harvard University, and a BSFS (honors) in international politics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Before coming to Penn, they worked in a range of education and development roles across India.
This debate will act as an activation space for Penn community to communicate and learn about different perspectives on topics like gender, labor, multilingualism, globalization, and environmentalism with AI as the focal point. Sign up using this form to participate as a debater.
View a curated set of historical collections & rare book manuscripts from the Kislak Center for Special Collections with the role of gender, multilingualism, & environmentalism at play from up close.
Note: This event takes place at Lea Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt.
John H. Pollack is Curator, Research Services, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. He has worked in this department since 1995. His responsibilities include providing assistance to students and scholars, and teaching and organizing class sessions centered on the collections.
Get free punch card bookmarks, weave your sentiments on AI on a loom, get cute buttons of our mascot, chAImera, with Education Commons, media archaeology objects from Vitale Digital Media Lab, and check out tech zines!
Note: This session takes place on the sixth floor of Van Pelt.
Join this fun social hour at Research Data & Digital Scholarship Exchange to meet other Penn community members with a bingo card socializing activity focused on AI and data. Participants will fill in their bingo board by finding individuals who have experiences or interests in a topic. We will also be having a station where you can create your own data-themed memes!
Enjoy food and boba sponsored by the Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Data Driven Discovery Initiative.
This event is co-hosted by Research Data and Digital Scholarship and the Kislak Center, with co-sponsorships from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, the Data Driven Discovery Initiative, and the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy.
Image Credit: Hazem Asif (@worldofhazem)