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Stanford’s Tech Ethics and Policy Summer Fellowship program nurtures interdisciplinary tech and social justice leaders. Ashwin Prabu shares his transformative experience and emphasizes the need for accessibility and diverse experiences in tech ethics and policy.
This year’s Democracy Day on November 5, 2024, comes at a heightened moment as the nation prepares for another pivotal presidential election. Stanford's Democracy Day is not only reigniting that sense of civic involvement but also taking a different approach—one that’s not only about political participation but also about wellness, empowerment, and dialogue.
Recently, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, convened a group of technologists, philosophers, academics, and ethicists to discuss the potential benefits, harms, and ethical implications of agentic AI systems.
At the Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Safety at Stanford, a diverse group of researchers from academia and industry expanded dominant paradigms in AI Safety.
From left to right: Divya Ganesan, Administrator Robin Carnahan, Caitlin Gandhi, and Angela Zhao; Photo by Benjamin Weissman.
“Tech Talk: Future Technologists in Government” was a candid and uplifting panel discussion between public service leaders in the business of furthering technology to deliver better government. The panel included Robin Carnahan, Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Caitlin Gandhi, Director of U.S. Digital Corps within the GSA, and Angela Zhao, Equity through Data Policy Fellow at the City of San José. Divya Ganesan, a rising Senior majoring in Political Science and Computer Science, moderated the discussion.