"Scientific Wellness and the Question of Who Knows You Best": Self-tracking technologies increasingly promise to help us understand ourselves better, using data from wearables, apps, and other digital systems to guide decisions about health, behavior, and well-being. But these developments raise a deeper question: who knows you best — you, your doctor, or your data? — Dominik Meier

"Training Natively Interactive Models": Large language models are interactive artifacts, but interaction is baked into them almost offhandedly, both for deployment and learning, and this has far-reaching consequences: rather than supporting the naturalness of human interactions, interactions with LLMs are stilted turn-taking experiences, a far cry from the dynamic full-duplex (i.e., concurrent input/output) nature of human interaction. — Anne Wu

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

The current boom in AI has been accompanied with tremendous hype, both negative and positive. My goal is to go beneath this surface and provide a better understanding of what AI systems are actually doing, and what concerns I have about where they are going. I am neither an enthusiast nor a doomer. The very real problems created by AI today and in the foreseeable future need to be approached by looking at the ways we (in the broad sense) choose to apply it and the way in which we fit it into our world.