Generative AI technologies like Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming a part of people’s daily lives worldwide with its effects being felt nearly everywhere, including in high-stakes contexts like healthcare, law, education, negotiation, and civic participation. While AI has brought transformative advances in these areas, research has shown that it can also have negative consequences.  For example, to date these technologies have primarily benefited people in the West, which make up only a small fraction of the global population. Similarly, the risks of AI are considered primarily in such Western contexts even though these technologies are used all around the globe. 

The 3-day thought summit will explore, analyze, and chart the future of LLMs and their integration into high-stakes settings in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. The summit will bring together experts, researchers, and thought leaders from diverse fields, who will delve into the implications and applications of LLMs for discovery, decision support, and creativity in diverse domains and geographies. The summit will foster a deeper understanding of the ethical, technical, and regulatory challenges that accompany the use of LLMs in such environments, discuss potential and pitfalls of these models, and fin

d ways to harness the transformative power of these models.

Participants

Aditya Vashistha

Aditya Vashistha,
Information Science, adityav@cornell.edu

Rene Kizilcec

Rene Kizilcec,

Information Science, kizilcec@cornell.edu

 

Cristobal Cheyre

Cristobal
Cheyre Forestier
,
Information Science, cac555@cornell.edu

Matthew Wilkens

Matthew Wilkens,
Information Science, wilkens@cornell.edu

Malte Jung
Malte Jung,
Information Science, mfj28@cornell.edu

Allison Koenecke
Allison Koenecke,
Information Science,
koenecke@cornell.edu

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Thorsten Joachims,
Computer Science,
thorsten.joachims@cornell.edu


Laurent Dubreuil,
Romance Studies, ld79@cornell.edu

Morten Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen, Psychology and Cognitive Science,
christiansen@cornell.edu


Marten van Schijndel,
Linguistics,
mv443@cornell.edu

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Natalie Bazarova,
Communication,
nnb8@cornell.edu

Lee Humphreys
Lee Humphreys,
Communication, lmh13@cornell.edu

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Maria Goula,
Landscape Architecture, mg987@cornell.edu

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Duarte Santo,
Landscape Architecture, duarte.santo@cornell.edu

   

Alvaro Soto

Alvaro Soto

Chilean National
Center for AI

Brett Bobley

Brett Bobley 
National Endowment
For The Humanities

danah boyd

danah boyd

Microsoft Research

 

Diyi Yang

Diyi Yang

Stanford University

 

Edward McFowland

Edward McFowland

Harvard University

Eisha Buch

Eisha Buch

Common Sense Media

Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Inioluwa Deborah Raji

UC Berkeley

Kalika Bali

Kalika Bali

Microsoft Research India

Katharina Reinecke

Katharina Reinecke

University of Washington

Marzyeh Ghassemi

Marzyeh Ghassemi

MIT

Meredith Ringel Morris

Meredith Ringel Morris

Google DeepMind

Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury

Berkman Klein Center
for Internet & Society

Suhel Bidani

Suhel Bidani

Gates Foundation

 

Tarleton Gillespie

Tarleton Gillespie

Microsoft Research
New England

Yulia Tsvetkov

Yulia Tsvetkov

University of Washington

 

Tentative Agenda