Title: "Skewed or Rescued?: The Emerging Theory of Algorithmic Fairness"
Description: Intelligent systems, much like humans, have the ability to see and respond to the world around them. Using data in new ways to make more accurate predictions or enabling new services, these...
Dec. 10, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The human-rights movement with its moral, legal and organizational ramifications has been one of the great innovations of the 20thcentury. Much has been achieved, but the world continues to fall short of human-rights ideals in numerous ways. Now is also the time to look ahead to the next 70 years, an era likely marked by technological breakthroughs at an unprecedented scale. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly present in our lives, reflecting a growing tendency to...
John Rawls was the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century: modern political philosophy would be unthinkable without him. This conference will bring together a range of distinguished participants, in the conviction that their diverse perspectives will enhance and illuminate one another in looking both at Rawls’ own thought and the problems of political theory that continue to face his successors. There is nowhere more appropriate than Harvard, where Rawls worked and taught for so long, to host such an important event.
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and 