On May 8, 2024, the UW Tech Policy Lab, Society + Technology at UW, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly convened The Model Hacker? The Intersection of AI and Security Research. This event brought into conversation Cindy Cohn, Ryan Calo, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, experts in computer science, law, and security research, to discuss the meaning of hacking in an age of AI—and the concerns, paradoxes, and legal challenges that emerging technologies pose for researchers and for the public.

The Model Hacker? The Intersection of AI and Security Research

Episode 1: An interview with Leah Ceccarelli, director of Science, Technology, and Society Studies about the program, scientists as citizens, and how rhetoric helps us make sense of debates about hot-button topics. Plus, Leah's take on whether scientists should be arrested when they're bad communicators.

Transcript and audio remix production by Monika Sengul-Jones
Recording by Russell Hugo

Transcript
https://depts.washington.edu/societytech/wordpress/?p=1101

Conversations with Society + Technology - Episode 1 - STSS and Rhetoric of Science - Fall 2024

We make sense of big questions about emerging technologies and their social impact and effects through conversations. Society + Technology at the University of Washington is a cross-campus, cross-disciplinary program focused on uplifting the research, teaching, and learning at the University of Washington's three campuses and the School of Medicine.

Conversations with Society + Technology - Episode 1 - STSS and Rhetoric of Science - Fall 2024

Conversations with Society + Technology at UW

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