News Featured February/March 2024 Newsletter The Public Interest Technologist Newsletter brings together the most recent articles, publications, and interviews for you to discover.
News AI and the new Eternal Return The Public Interest Technologist. It is time for a "Minimum Standard of Care for AI" that can regulate an acceptable minimal conduct for companies and individuals that deploy AI outside the regulatory borders of their respective countries.
PIT Community @ UC Berkeley: Conference Papers to Foster Better Public Interest Cybersecurity Initiatives A recent call for papers spearheaded by UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) highlights ongoing efforts to produce research and general insights to inform strategic advances for the future of Public Interest Cybersecurity. The papers will be integrated as part of the 2024 Cyber Civil Defense Summit, which
Public Interest Technology - New England’s Community Growth Continues into 2024 Public Interest Technology - New England (PIT-NE) is entering 2024 with big goals and lots of momentum to continue shaping public interest technology as a new field.
News Environmental Intelligence: Hello (AI-Assisted, Open-Source) World Claire Gorman. According to GitHub’s CEO, the platform’s new AI-based coding assistant wrote over a billion lines of operational code over the course of 2023.
The PKG Center and Fostering Public Interest Technologists at MIT: an interview with Alison Hynd and Jill Bassett There is a need is for us to continue to challenge how MIT students think about themselves and their role at the institute. It’s essential to make public the importance of students working on public interest technology issues.
Blending Tech Skills with Environmental Advocacy: Harnessing the Power of Hackathons as Climate Action with Sanjana Paul It is important for MIT to expand educational initiatives to deepen students’ understanding of the systemic nature of climate issues in interdisciplinary ways.
Making Public Service Technology in the Classroom and in Office: an interview with Phil Thompson I believe that MIT can have a huge impact on cities across the nation and beyond if we become collaborators, problem-solvers, and learning partners with cities and communities attempting to address climate change in ways that reduce inequality and improve democracy.
"Emerging Public Interest Technology: Fiber Optic Cables Bringing Internet Broadband and Railroad Network Expansion Together" Wired Magazine
PIT @ MIT in the Press: "In a first, MIT trains students to resolve clean energy conflicts" MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Databases for Community Power: Building Tech for Public Interests with Catherine D’Ignazio I would push MIT to always remember that it has a commitment to local, as well as global, collaborations. By this, I mean to emphasize the need to build technologies that serve a public, and therefore have an applied nature for a given community.
Building Human Capacity through Collaborative Robotics: an Interview with Julie Shah I would push MIT to always remember that it has a commitment to local, as well as global, collaborations. By this, I mean to emphasize the need to build technologies that serve a public, and therefore have an applied nature for a given community.
Exploring the Social Dimensions of Automation: an interview with Ben Armstrong At MIT, I think our goal should be to identify how technology can serve the interests of these various groups – and persuade organizations making investments in new technologies that pushing toward a “positive-sum” approach is beneficial for them.
"Subjective" AI: Data-driven tools for Analyzing Urban Experience with Rohit Sanatani As researchers, we must take the first step of always remaining critical of the degree to which our data represents the ‘public’ and being aware of the conscious or unconscious decisions that have gone into generating the datasets our work relies upon.
Databases for Grassroot Organizations: Bridging the Public Interest through Theory and Practice with Patricia Garcia Iruegas MIT can pursue public interest technology when we encourage interdepartmental initiatives that prioritize justice and equity and the continuous evaluation of the societal impact of technological advancements.
News Large Language Models for Augmented Reading MIT Public Interest Technologist. A curious scientific paper on millipedes helps us consider what Large Language Models (LLMs) can teach us about the construction and dissemination of environmental intelligence.
Shaping Reparative Technology: Reforming Landlord Tech with Wonyoung So MIT can pursue public interest technology when we encourage interdepartmental initiatives that prioritize justice and equity and the continuous evaluation of the societal impact of technological advancements.
PIT Community @ University of Massachusetts–Amherst The University of Massachusetts–Amherst's (UMass Amherst) Public Interest Technology Initiative (PIT@UMass) is an all-campus effort with a bold call to action for all technologists: “Our society deserves technology that serves the common good.”
MIT's PIT Community Expands: Public Interest Technology New England (PIT-NE) Network MIT's PIT Community expands with Public Interest Technology New England (PIT-NE) Network.
Technologists Must Build Trust: Making Space for the Public at MIT with Carlo Ratti MIT can pursue public interest technology when it is connected to the public. Right now, the big question for public interest lies with A.I., both its development and technological application.
