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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · 23d

#ResponsibleAI Talk
Designing AI for Hybrid Decision-Making or... Why Assessing Appropriate Reliance Matters

Speaker: Federico Cabitza (Bicocca)
Date: September 22, 2025
Time: 3:30pm (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · 29d

3-year Responsible AI PhD studentships @ Politecnico di Torino (Turin)

Focus: Responsible AI, computational social science, urban AI, climate, future of work.

Start Mar 2026 (or earlier).

Apply by 20 Sept 2025 → [email protected] (subject: “PhD studentships”).  Please share!

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Sep 2

Visiting Faculty / ResponsibleAI@PoliTO

Paid up to 12 month visiting professor positions are available at the Department of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy.

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Aug 11

#ResponsibleAI Talk
Principled and Reliable Certification of Generative Responsible AI

Speaker: Alvin Chin (UIC) and Gagandeep Singh (UIUC)
Date: August 18, 2025
Time: 3:30pm (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Aug 5

#ResponsibleAI Talk
An Ode to Shannon: Information Lattice Learning for Semantic Compression, Creativity, and Knowledge Discovery

Speaker: Lav Varshney, UIUC
Date: August 11, 2025
Time: 3:30pm (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Aug 4

Most Computer Science Papers Stay in the Lab. A Few Build the Future medium.com/@danielequer...

Most Computer Science Papers Stay in the Lab. A Few Build the Future.

Each year, researchers publish thousands of Computer Science papers. Most are read by a handful of other researchers. Some get cited. But…

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jul 28

#ResponsibleAI Talk
The AI Alignment Problem: Bridging Lab Research and Policy Solutions

Speaker: Camilla Bignotti, Banca d’Italia
Date: August 4, 2025
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jul 23

We Need to Rethink AI Safety Before It Fails Us Again: 3 Suggestions medium.com/@danielequer...

We Need to Rethink AI Safety Before It Fails Us Again

AI is spreading fast, and we are making the same mistake we’ve made with many new tools: we focus too much on the technology and too little…

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jul 22

#ResponsibleAI Talk
The Parity Benchmark: A Multimodal Framework for Assessing Bias in LLMs

Speaker: Shmona Simpson, CEO and Founder of Paritii
Date: July 28, 2025
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jul 15

The AI Paradox: Promising to Save the Climate While Helping Destroy It medium.com/@danielequer...

The AI Paradox: Promising to Save the Climate While Helping Destroy It

It’s a story Silicon Valley loves to tell: Artificial intelligence will rescue us from our biggest crises. It will cure cancer, lift people…

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jul 3

#ResponsibleAI Talk
BRIO: A Bias and Risk Assessment Tool for Fair ML Systems

Speaker: Giuseppe Primiero, University of Milan
Date: July 14, 2025
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jun 17

#ResponsibleAI Talk
Building an Ecosystem for Responsible, Trustworthy Governance of AI Solutions

Speaker: Elizabeth M. Daly, IBM Research
Date: June 30, 2025
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jun 15

Talk | Will AI Work for Us or Replace Us?
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Will AI work for us or replace us?

YouTube video by Social Dynamics Cambridge

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jun 12

#ResponsibleAI Talk
Computer System Sustainability: Trends and Modeling

Speaker: Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University
Date: June 16, 2025
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jun 6

AI Sees the City. But Should It?https://medium.com/socialdynamics/ai-sees-the-city-but-should-it-a3b1fc6ab77f

AI Sees the City. But Should It?

Walk through a city today and there is a good chance you are being observed from above. Satellites, drones, and aircraft record everything…

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Jun 5

#ResponsibleAI Talk
Designing Human-Centered AI for Collaborative Medical Decision Making

Speaker: Maia Jacobs, Northwestern University
Date: June 9
Time: 15:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · May 13

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: On the Fundamental Limits of Privacy-enhancing Technologies

🗣 Speaker: Theresa Stadler, EPFL
📅 Date: May 19
⏰ Time: 15:30 PM (London)
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · May 1

Project: social-dynamics.net/c3ai
PDF: researchswinger.org/publications...

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · May 1

Today at #TheWebConf: C3AI – Crafting & Evaluating Constitutions for AI

How should we actually write rules for AI?

C3AI provides a way to:
1. Design effective constitutions using psychology and public input.
2. Evaluate how well fine-tuned models actually follow the rules.

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Apr 9

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Safe and Responsible AI Engineering in the Age of Foundation Models

🗣 Speaker: Qinghua Lu, CSIRO's Data61, Australia
📅 Date: April 14
⏰ Time: 10:30 PM (London)
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Mar 26

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work

🗣 Speaker: Solon Barocas (@s010n), Microsoft Research
📅 Date: March 31
⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (UK)
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Mar 18

#ResponsibleAI Talk: Estimating AI Assistants’ Influence on User Opinions & Democratic Discourse

Speaker: Maurice Jakesch, Bauhaus University Weimar

Date: March 24
Time: 3:30 PM (London)

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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Interactive Systems for Making AI Work for Us

🗣 Speaker: Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington
📅 Date: March 17
⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London Time)
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Mar 7

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Human vs. Algorithmic Recommendations in College Applications

🗣 Speaker: Faidra Monachou, Yale
📅 Date: March 10
⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London Time)
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danielequercia.bsky.social @danielequercia.bsky.social · Feb 21

📢 #ResponsibleAI Talk: Constructing Automated Societies

🗣 Diletta Huyskes, University of Milan
📅 Date: February 3
⏰ Time: 3:30 PM (London)
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