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PIT IN PRACTICE
 
 

PIT In Practice Profiles

 
 

In this Q&A series, PIT-UN talks to various technologists and practitioners who are helping define the field to learn about their PIT journey and outlook, in their words.

 
 

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
 
 

Building the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology

 
 

Charlton McIlwain, vice provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at New York University lays out the five steps that he and faculty took to establish the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and set the framework for PIT field-building on campus.

 
 

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PIT CREWS
 
 

5 Questions with Fran Berman [Video]

 
 

This month, we kick off our 5 Questions series with Fran Berman, director of public interest technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, who discusses the building blocks for PIT.

 
 

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GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT
 
 

Best Practices for Adopting the Computational Ethics for Natural Language Processing Course

 
 

Yulia Tsvetkov, assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, provides insights for successfully adopting the Computational Ethics for Natural Language Processing course that launched at Carnegie Mellon University in spring 2020.

 
 

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
 
 

Last Chance to Register: A BETTER TECH Conference and Career Fair (and Comprehensive Data Governance Webinar)

 
 

Attend the A BETTER TECH Conference and Career Fair taking place Oct. 14-15. Plus, attend the What is Comprehensive Data Governance and Why Should You Care? An Introduction to the first Metric of Comprehensive Data Governance webinar that takes place today at 11 am ET.

 
 

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PONDERING
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"It's not about having amazing tools that are super important, or even this strategy, methodology or approach. It's a paradigm shift in the way we develop and deploy these machine learning systems ... It's a hard thing to do, but at the heart of how we make a change and operationalize responsible AI, and transparency."

 

Christine Custis, @ChristineCustis
Head of ABOUT ML and Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability, the Partnership on AI

 

Cracking Open the Black Box: Promoting Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency Around High-Risk AI

 
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A BETTER TECH, the 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair, is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology (Oct. 14-15).

 

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Study finds growing government use of sensitive data to ‘nudge’ behaviour. A new form of “influence government”, which uses sensitive personal data to craft campaigns aimed at altering behaviour has been “supercharged” by the rise of big tech firms, researchers have warned. (The Guardian)

 

WHAT TO WATCH

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Cracking Open the Black Box. Promoting Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Around High-Risk AI. New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) discusses the landscape of mechanisms for promoting FAT around high-risk AI systems. This webinar explores OTI's latest report on promoting FAT around high-risk algorithmic systems.

 
 

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Save the Date | public interest technology university network's third annual convening | November 1-2,2021 | hosted by ASU arizona state university

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