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*NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks* *Annual Conference:* *“Generative AI: Creative Potentials and Ethical Responsibilities”* *April 21, 9:30am–3:30pm (Eastern)* Please join us for the sixth annual NULab spring conference, featuring talks by Northeastern faculty, staff, and students about their work in digital humanities and computational social science. This year’s theme will be “Generative AI: Creative Potentials and Ethical Responsibilities” and will include a diverse set of interdisciplinary presentations on topics including creative uses and ethics of generative AI. Our keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Lara J. Martin <https://laramartin.net/>, CIFellow Postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Martin has worked in the areas of automated story generation, speech processing, and affective computing, publishing in top-tier conferences such as AAAI, EMNLP, and IJCAI. *This event will be hybrid: join us in Raytheon Amphitheater <https://goo.gl/maps/cBgBkEiY2tGACHsUA> on the Northeastern Boston campus, or by Zoom. See the event page <https://cssh.northeastern.edu/nulab/conference-2023/> for more details. * *Registration is required for this event: RSVP here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScP88ijhAY0mPUlEhKH3YsnsbHQKzaGZvFtzU75NW3F9Fb-QA/viewform?usp=sf_link>. *If you are joining remotely, you can RSVP at any time to receive a Zoom link. If you will be attending in person and would like to join for lunch, please RSVP by April 14. *Conference Schedule (all times in Eastern)* - *9:30am: *Light breakfast - *9:45am: *Welcome by Dan Cohen, Dean of Libraries; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History - *10-11:30am:* Panel: "Making, Creating, and Experimenting with AI," featuring Lawrence Evalyn (English); Kenna Cheverie (English); Malik Haddad (Data and Computer Science, NCH London); and Nick Beauchamp (Political Science) - *11:30am-12:30pm: *Lunch - *12:30-1:45pm:* Keynote address by Lara Martin, "Digital Bards: How Dungeons & Dragons will Make for Better AI" - *2-3:30pm:* Panel: "Exploring the Ethical Contours of AI," featuring Felix Muzny (Khoury College of Computer Sciences); Cansu Canca (Institute for Experiential AI); Silvio Amir (Khoury College of Computer Sciences); and Dan Jackson, Jules Rochielle Sievert, and Miso Kim (NuLawLab) We will be including automated live captioning during the event and have requested ASL interpretation. To make space for informal discussions, this event will not be recorded for public distribution. If you have questions, please contact [log in to unmask] Please also share this information with anyone who may be interested. Kind regards, Javier Javier Rosario Graduate Fellow NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks Northeastern University ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BOSTONDH list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=BOSTONDH