Schneier on Security

Blaise Aguera y Arcas

AI researcher, Fellow and VP, Google Research. He leads Google Research’s Cerebra, which produced MobileNets, Federated Learning, Coral, and many Android and Pixel AI features, as well as founding the Artists and Machine Intelligence program, which pairs machine intelligence engineers with artists to create art.

• Do Large Language Models Understand Us? How can we determine whether or not an AI has consciousness? If it acts as if it has consciousness, is that enough?

Danielle Allen

Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and James Bryant Conant University Professor. Her published works cover democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought, and she is particularly known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America…

The three closest hotels are:

The Charles Hotel (walking distance)
One Bennett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
617-864-1200
617-864-5715

Harvard Square Hotel (walking distance)
110 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, 2138
617-864-5200
617-864-2409

Sheraton Commander Hotel (closest to the conference)
16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Main: 617-547-4800
Fax: 617-868-8322
Reservations: 800-535-5007
email: sales@sheratoncommander.com

More Harvard University Area Hotels

Airbnb is another good option. There are lots of cost effective accommodations available…

IWORD is strictly invitational. There is no registration fee.

At this time IWORD is full and registration is closed. If you are already invited, please fill out this registration form.

If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please email Bruce Schneier.

The 2022 International Workshop on Recreating Democracy was held December 7-8, 2022. For a report on the workshop, see this blog post. The first ten comments are a summary of the discussions.

General Information:

IWORD is a small interdisciplinary workshop on recreating democracy. And we mean this very broadly. The idea is to start from scratch, to pretend we’re forming a new country and don’t have any precedent to deal with. And that we don’t have any unique interests to perturb our thinking. The modern representative democracy was the best form of government mid-eighteenth century politicians technology could invent. The twenty-first century is a very different place technically, scientifically, and philosophically. What could democracy look like if it were reinvented today? Would it even be democracy—what comes after democracy?…