[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Ariel Procaccia -- Feb 27

[Adams Wei Yu]

A gentle reminder that the talk will be tomorrow (Tuesday) noon at *NSH
1507*.

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 4:04 AM, Adams Wei Yu <weiyu at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, Feb 27, at noon in *NSH 1507* for
> AI Seminar sponsored by Apple. To learn more about the seminar series,
> please visit the AI Seminar webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> On Tuesday,  Ariel Procaccia <http://procaccia.info/> will give the
> following talk:
>
> Title: Extreme Democracy
>
> Abstract:
>
> Technological advances have changed every aspect of our lives in recent
> decades, yet, for the most part, the same systems of democratic decision
> making have been in place for centuries. I will argue that computer
> scientists can help rethink the practice of democracy, as well as its
> potential applications. I will focus on three emerging paradigms that go
> far beyond your run-of-the-mill election: (i) liquid democracy, an approach
> that allows voters to transitively delegate their votes; (ii) participatory
> budgeting, whereby residents collectively decide how to spend their local
> government's budget; and (iii) virtual democracy, which employs instant
> elections among machine learning models of real voters to address the grand
> AI challenge of ethical decision making.
>
>
>
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