The Full SLAAIT

Upcoming AI conferences, commentary on singularity, and update on AI slop story.

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is hosting a two day conference entitled the Symposium on AI and Democratic Freedoms on April 10th and 11th. The symposium is touted as touting the "risks that advanced AI systems pose to democratic freedoms as well as interventions to mitigate these risks."

Featured topics include

• Regulating AI in a time of Democratic Upheaval
• Using AI to Enhance Democracy
• AI, Freedom of Expression, and Democratic Backsliding
  

Featured speakers hail both from multiple top-ranked universities around the globe and from the AI industry.

Online attendance is free, and you may register here.

The AI Conference in San Francisco will post its CFP soon, according to its website. The conference's list of speakers is stacked with industry professionals, not representatives from the academic or library worlds.

Discussion about the singularity has been popping up in news and social media in the past month. Here's a round up.

• Popular Mechanics explains the concept in a piece published last fall, and offered an update on the anticipated timeline just last week.
• In this piece from The Guardian, futurist Ray Kurzweil shares his thoughts on our anticipated collision course with the singularity.
• Thomson Reuters offers a judicial/legal perspective in this piece from Magistrate Judge Maritza Braswell.
  

Yesterday, SLAAIT hosted a demonstration webinar on DeepSeek by the University of Texas' Dr. David Lankes. The recording can be accessed here.