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Distinguished Colloquia @ Cornell Tech: Sorelle Friedler
AI and Free Speech: Assessing AI Platform Limits on Content Creation
Large language models (LLMs) now shape our information landscape. Screenwriters and other professional writers fear being replaced. Students generate essays using LLMs. People looking for information regularly turn to chatbots or search engines using LLMs for information. To what extent are people free to write the movies, personal reflections, factual descriptions, or other text about topics they choose? In this talk, Sorelle Friedler will discuss the role content moderation plays in LLMs and how the large AI platforms block the creation of some text. In an era where content is increasingly shaped and created by AI, Friedler will discuss how to audit these systems to find out what speech is allowed, what isn’t, and how this changes over time.
Speaker Bio
Sorelle Friedler is the Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and the Chair of ACM’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee. She previously served as the Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden-Harris Administration where she co-authored the AI Bill of Rights and contributed to policy governing the federal use of AI. Her research focuses on the intersection of AI and society and she is a Co-Founder of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Key papers include work on disparate impact in machine learning and on understanding fair machine learning as a sociotechnical endeavor. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.