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Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe convening the First Novel Coronavirus Expert Meeting. 16 Feburary 2020

By: Federico Brandmayr
27. March 2020
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Reading Elizabeth Anderson in the time of COVID-19

Reading Elizabeth Anderson in the time of COVID-19 https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Abe_and_First_Novel_Coronavirus_Expert_Meeting.jpg 800 533 Federico Brandmayr Federico Brandmayr https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4d4b534f331ba9de387d42aee9566b39?s=96&d=mm&r=g 27. March 2020 1. April 2020

The pandemic is a good time to reflect on expertise (if you have the luxury). During this particular emergency, governments appear to pay heed to experts. Or at least they do now that the extent of the crisis is clear. The public and the media show them respect and even reverence. This is especially true…

By: Shauna Concannon
27. January 2020
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Fact-checking Hackathon

Fact-checking Hackathon https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Hackathon-2020_Fotor_BW-1024x576.jpg 1024 576 Shauna Concannon Shauna Concannon https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9ae26239bbead0d6870de57ca0160572?s=96&d=mm&r=g 27. January 2020 15. May 2020

The Giving Voice to Digital Democracies is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social Change, Cambridge, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation, and we started 2020 with a Fact-checking Hackathon on 10-12 January. The event took place at the Cambridge University Engineering Department. The project manager Marcus Tomalin welcomed attendees to the event before Mevan Babkar, head of automated…

By: Hannah Baker
27. January 2020
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Expertise, Adult Learning & Intercultural Effectiveness

Expertise, Adult Learning & Intercultural Effectiveness https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/model-1024x724.jpg 1024 724 Hannah Baker Hannah Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e97422cbfbd2a29711eb77e0292308e3?s=96&d=mm&r=g 27. January 2020 27. January 2020

In November 2019, Fodé Beaudet from the Canadian Foreign Service Institute from Global Affairs Canada visited the UK as part of a project to better understand how we can design, facilitate and evaluate our work to support behavioural change at the individual, group or system level. He met with Anna Alexandrova and Hannah Baker at…

By: Federico Brandmayr
12. January 2020
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When Does Explaining Become Explaining Away? Compassion, Justification and Exculpation in Social Research

When Does Explaining Become Explaining Away? Compassion, Justification and Exculpation in Social Research https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The_Last_Day_of_a_Condemned_Man.jpg 795 599 Federico Brandmayr Federico Brandmayr https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4d4b534f331ba9de387d42aee9566b39?s=96&d=mm&r=g 12. January 2020 23. January 2020

The Expertise Under Pressure project hosted its first workshop on 27 September 2019 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)…

By: Stefanie Ullmann
9. January 2020
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Quarantining Online Hate Speech

Quarantining Online Hate Speech https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/r9E4PwY2.jpeg 680 332 Stefanie Ullmann Stefanie Ullmann https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a39b3d5109c4bb8ddc6f7319d8ca8f36?s=96&d=mm&r=g 9. January 2020 9. January 2020

Research Publication “quarantining online hate speech” Ethics and information technology 10 October 2019 Press Release by Cambridge University https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/online-hate-speech-could-be-contained-like-a-computer-virus-say-researchers 17 December 2019 Artificial intelligence is being developed that will allow advisory ‘quarantining’ of hate speech in a manner akin to malware filters – offering users a way to control exposure to ‘hateful content’ without resorting to censorship. We…

By: Hannah Baker
22. November 2019
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Expert Bites – Bill Byrne

Expert Bites – Bill Byrne https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CRASSH-Bill-Byrne-2768.png 1000 690 Hannah Baker Hannah Baker https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e97422cbfbd2a29711eb77e0292308e3?s=96&d=mm&r=g 22. November 2019 22. November 2019

Professor Bill Byrne, Information Engineering, University of Cambridge Summary By Hannah Baker 22 November 2019 Professor Bill Byrne’s research is focused on statistical modelling of speech and language, with his current interest being in statistical machine translation. Bill is part of the ‘Giving Voice to Digital Democracies’ team who, as with the ‘Expertise Under Pressure’…

By: Stefanie Ullmann
19. October 2019
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Artificial Intelligence and Social Change

Artificial Intelligence and Social Change https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Festival-of-Ideas-2019.png 900 506 Stefanie Ullmann Stefanie Ullmann https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a39b3d5109c4bb8ddc6f7319d8ca8f36?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19. October 2019 29. January 2020

Talk 19 October 2019 Festival of ideas, cambridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhcKL7pb180&t=16s Dr Marcus Tomalin, Project Manager of Giving Voice to Digital Democracies, gave a talk at the Festival of Ideas on “Artificial Intelligence and Social Change” on 19 October 2019. The Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project investigates the social impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology (AICT).…

By: Stefanie Ullmann
30. September 2019
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Society, Technology

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Society, Technology https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AI_edited-1024x647.jpg 1024 647 Stefanie Ullmann Stefanie Ullmann https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a39b3d5109c4bb8ddc6f7319d8ca8f36?s=96&d=mm&r=g 30. September 2019 28. January 2020

Tweet Third workshop 30 September 2019 Centre for research in the arts, social sciences and humanities (crassh), cambridge The Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project hosted its third workshop on 30th September 2019 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). The project is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social…

By: Stefanie Ullmann
23. May 2019
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Gender, Technology

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Gender, Technology https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Image-by-metamorworks_Shutterstock.com-3.png 800 800 Stefanie Ullmann Stefanie Ullmann https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a39b3d5109c4bb8ddc6f7319d8ca8f36?s=96&d=mm&r=g 23. May 2019 20. June 2019

Tweet second workshop 17 May 2019 Centre for research in the arts, social sciences and humanities (crassh), cambridge The Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project hosted its second workshop on 17th May 2019 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). The project is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social…

By: Stefanie Ullmann
23. May 2019
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology

The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Language, Ethics, Technology https://hscif.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/The-Future-of-AI-19-1024x341.png 1024 341 Stefanie Ullmann Stefanie Ullmann https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a39b3d5109c4bb8ddc6f7319d8ca8f36?s=96&d=mm&r=g 23. May 2019 20. June 2019

Tweet Inaugural workshop 25 March 2019 Centre for research in the arts, social sciences and humanities (crassh), cambridge The Giving Voice to Digital Democracies project hosted its inaugural workshop on 25th March 2019 at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). The project is part of the Centre for the Humanities and Social…