<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Michelle Lee</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishlee@stanford.edu" target="_blank">mishlee@stanford.edu</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">We're very excited to have our first AI Salon this quarter  <span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline">Friday April 12 at 4pm</span> at Gates 219 (our usual time and place), on the topic of "Societal Impact of Deepfakes" with Professor Maneesh Agrawala and Professor Jeff Hancock. More specifically, we want to discuss how the increasing ease of creating fake media with AI might be eroding trust in our society and our democratic institutions, how do we regain that trust, and whether the harms of Deepfake might be overhyped. </font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">About the Speakers</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="text-align:justify"><b>Maneesh Agrawala </b>is the </span><a href="https://professorships.stanford.edu/content/School%20of%20Engineering" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Forest Baskett Professor</a><span style="text-align:justify"> of </span><a href="http://cs.stanford.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Computer Science</a><span style="text-align:justify"> and Director of the </span><a href="http://brown.stanford.edu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none;text-align:justify" target="_blank">Brown Institute for Media Innovation</a><span style="text-align:justify"> at Stanford University. He works on </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">computer graphics</span><span style="text-align:justify">, </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">human computer interaction</span><span style="text-align:justify"> and </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify">visualization</span><span style="text-align:justify">. His focus is on investigating how cognitive design principles can be used to improve the effectiveness of audio/visual media. The goals of this work are to discover the design principles and then instantiate them in both interactive and automated design tools. </span><br></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Jeff Hancock</b> is founding director of the <a href="https://sml.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford Social Media Lab</a> and is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. Professor Hancock and his group work on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. He is well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology, from sending texts and emails to detecting fake online reviews. His <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hancock_3_types_of_digital_lies?language=en" target="_blank">TED Talk </a>on deception has been seen over 1 million times. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">About the Event:</font></span></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">For those of you new to <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">Salon</span>: this is a roughly bi-weekly event on Fridays where we discuss high-level topics in <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> and machine learning, with the goal of getting us to think beyond our individual day-to-day research and better see how what we do fits into the bigger picture of society. We hold these <span style="font-weight:700">in the spirit of Enlightenment-era <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">salons</span>, with no electronics</span> or whiteboard allowed: only free-ranging discussion open to all <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> lab members, with a 10-minute opening statement at the beginning by the two hosts.</font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The week's <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">AI</span> <span class="m_-1515000193998206293m_-7480797735041567984gmail-il">Salon</span> is held <span style="font-weight:700">Friday </span>from <span style="font-weight:700">4pm to 5pm</span> in Gates 219 (2nd floor open area), with wine & cheese served starting at 3:45 - please come at by 3:55 pm to get wine & cheese and a seat. We start at 4pm sharp! <br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Best,</font></p><p style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">AI Salon Team </font></p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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