Digital Life Seminar
Date: 2026 Spring Semester
When: Thursdays, 1.25 - 2.40pm (ET). Due to limited space, all guests outside of Cornell Tech are asked to please RSVP beforehand.
Where: Cornell Tech's Tata Innovation Center, Room 141/151
Convenors: Helen Nissenbaum and Michael Byrne
Queries: Michael Byrne (mjb556@cornell.edu)
About: 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.
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Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 5:25:00 PM UTC
Terry Winograd
Stanford University
What's up with AI?
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.
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