A UNIQUE PROGRAM BRINGS TOGETHER EXPERTS IN AI, SOCIAL MEDIA AND DISCOURSE
Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society is proud to welcome an ordinary group of fellows for the 2024-2025 educational year.
The cohort will circle the 3 pillars of BKC public programming (AI, social media, and educational discourse) and independently study topics ranging from the role of AI in the worlds of neuropsychiatry, misinformation, and content moderation; the link between digitalization and the populist movement; the changing landscape of excessive speech and censorship on the Internet. The BKC Scholarship Program stands out uniquely in academia by bringing together experts from a wide diversity of backgrounds, aggregating scholarship, industry and civil society.
“BKC’s scholarship program brings together experts committed to imagination, skills, and hobby to make a difference,” said Jonathan Zittrain, BKC’s faculty director. “Our fellows are testing new interventions that serve the function of technology in supporting human flourishing. “
The new fellows subscribe to a strong legacy, one that fosters interdisciplinary and cross-cultural exchanges and fosters the lifelong connections that have continued in the BKC network for more than 25 years.
“Our fellows interact on and off campus, in a way that embraces the critical issues and nature of their fields and emphasizes being expansive, curious, and kind,” explained BKC Community Director Rebecca Tabasky. “This allows them to take a look at their paintings from new, previously unnoticed perspectives, to create concepts and interventions with greater perspective and promise. “
This is the delight of J. Nathan Matias, a fellow from 2013 to 2014, who later held positions at the Knight First Amendment Institute and founded the Citizens and Technology Laboratory at Cornell University: “Collective experience and encouragement The paintings in network encouraged me to believe New Instructions for my work when I was a student, giving me the confidence and support to believe and start building the Citizen Technology Lab.
As 2022-2023 fellow Juliana Castro Varón, now at The New York Times as design editor at A. I. Initiatives, says: “The fellowship gave me a year to fully immerse myself in the evolution of AI and collaborate with the BKC community, which has “Played a pivotal role in propelling me toward my current job. ”
Professors Nien-hê Hsieh and Mark Wu, BKC board members, who chaired the variety committee, added: “We are pleased to welcome this phenomenal new fellowship organization to the BKC community. Their commitment to building teams and practices to deal with emerging situations that are not easy. situations reflects the BKC’s preference for fostering a wide but not easy diversity of exploration and creativity. We look forward with optimism and enthusiasm to the conversations about the long-term Internet that your studies will further and inspire.
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