Intended Audience: General
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AI Technologies Today at BenCon 2024
Sarah Bargal provides an overview of AI, machine learning, and deep learning, illustrating their potential for both positive and negative applications, including authentication, adversarial attacks, deepfakes, generative models, personalization, and ethical concerns.
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Risk Management Framework Introductory Courses
The NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) Introductory Courses offer free, self-paced online training on managing cybersecurity and privacy risks using NIST’s RMF methodology and related publications.
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The Equitable Tech Horizon in Digital Benefits Panel
Hear perspectives on topics including centering beneficiaries and workers in new ways, digital service delivery, digital identity, and automation.This video was recorded at the Digital Benefits Conference (BenCon) on June 14, 2023.
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“Collective Intelligence” Problem Solving Exercise Template
This exercise template includes detailed steps and prompts to encourages participants to collaboratively address challenges with peers.
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Government Digital Service Team Tracker
The Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation's Digital Service Network (DSN) maintains a Government Digital Service Team Tracker: a living database for those seeking to learn more about the locations, structures, mandates, and more of government digital service teams across the United States.
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Digital Identity: Emerging Trends, Debates and Controversies
This academic review covers the broad range of arguments, trends, and patterns from the emerging field of digital identity scholarship.
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Platformland: Book Talk with Richard Pope
In this webinar, Richard Pope shares more about translating the ideas in his book, "Platformland," into practice.
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Unpacking How Long-Standing Civil Rights Protections Apply to Emerging Technologies like AI at BenCon 2024
A panel of experts discuss the application of civil rights protections to emerging AI technologies, highlighting potential harms, the need for inclusive teams, and the importance of avoiding technology-centric solutions to social problems.
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Saving Face: Investigating the Ethical Concerns of Facial Recognition Auditing
This paper explores design considerations and ethical tensions related to auditing of commercial facial processing technology.
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Less Discriminatory Algorithms
The article discusses the phenomenon of model multiplicity in machine learning, arguing that developers should be legally obligated to search for less discriminatory algorithms (LDAs) to reduce disparities in algorithmic decision-making.
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User research is a team sport
User research requires working as a team, since it necessitates running sessions with participants, observing and moderating research sessions, analyzing and synthesizing results, as well as communicating results effectively.
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Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Responses
This blog explains how to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to individuals who have experienced trafficking, emphasizing the importance of cultural competence and the CLAS Standards.