This week’s DLI Seminar at Cornell Tech will be dedicated to a creative reflection, an exploration of how contemporary art can operate as a form of research, and as a sharp mode of critique, in an era shaped by pervasive surveillance, data extraction, and biometric inference. Bringing artistic practice into dialogue with critical scholarship, the session will consider what art can reveal about privacy and power that is harder to see through policy, engineering, or social-science methods alone: the felt experience of being monitored, the assumptions baked into “objective” technologies, and the ethical stakes of turning bodies, traces, and behaviors into data.

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has transformed daily tasks ranging from video captioning to medical note-taking. ASR systems' growing use warrants robust and standardized auditing approaches to ensure automated transcriptions of high and equitable quality. We identify three pitfalls in existing standard ASR auditing procedures, and demonstrate how addressing them impacts audit results via a case study focused on patients with a language disorder, aphasia.

Professor Daniel Solove (GW Law School) will talk about his new book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY. He will address the question: Can privacy law keep up with new digital technologies such as AI? Solove will argue that it is possible to protect privacy in the age of AI, but it requires dispelling common myths of technology that impede regulation, such as the myth that regulation stifles innovation, the myth of technology neutrality, the myth of technology exceptionalism, and the myth of the privacy paradox.

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The current boom in AI has been accompanied with tremendous hype, both negative and positive. My goal is to go beneath this surface and provide a better understanding of what AI systems are actually doing, and what concerns I have about where they are going. I am neither an enthusiast nor a doomer. The very real problems created by AI today and in the foreseeable future need to be approached by looking at the ways we (in the broad sense) choose to apply it and the way in which we fit it into our world.