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• May

  6

  PRIME Seminar with James Guszcza: Envisioning a field of human-machine hybrid intelligence architecture

  CASMI - Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence

  12:00 PM Room 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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  Join us for a CASMI PRIME visiting research seminar with James Guszcza, Research Affiliate, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University

  Title: Envisioning a field of human-machine hybrid intelligence architecture

  Abstract:

  AI promises to improve human decision-making and fuel economic growth, but today’s state of the art suffers from serious shortcomings. Reports abound of AI technologies that compromise human safety or wellbeing, treat people unfairly, amplify societal biases, undermine human autonomy through manipulation, and amplify the spread of misinformation and polarizing content. On a purely practical level, Gartner has estimated that 85% of big data projects never make it to production.

  This talk explores the premise that many of today’s AI shortcomings arise from a basic mismatch. On the one hand, business leaders and end-users typically require effective systems of human-machine partnership. On the other hand, the teams that build AI technologies tend to be oriented towards optimizing algorithms in lab settings. Currently missing, and needed, is an applied field for developing human-machine hybrid intelligence systems. Such a field would be multidisciplinary, integrating concepts and methods from computer science and data science with those from the humanities and social sciences. For example, concepts such as confirmation bias, algorithm aversion, and choice architecture would be no less essential to the language of hybrid intelligence development than concepts such as label bias, data drift, and cross-validation.

  Join us in person or via zoom https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/99423550899

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  TIME Friday, May 6, 2022 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  LOCATION Room 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)    map it

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  CONTACT Sarah Spurlock    sarah.spurlock@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR CASMI - Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence

• Jan

  28

  CANCELLED - Public Lecture Series

  Department of Computer Science (CS)

  4:00 PM

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  TIME Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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  CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)

• Jan

  29

  Bagel Thursday

  Department of Computer Science (CS)

  9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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  Join us for our monthly free bagels and coffee while mingling with fellow faculty and students.

  There will also be another informal discussion from hosted by CSPAC and CSSI on the topic "AI in Research".

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  TIME Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)    map it

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  CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)

• Feb

  2

  CS Seminar

  Department of Computer Science (CS)

  12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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  Monday / CS Seminar
  February 2 / 12:00 PM
  Hybrid / Mudd 3514

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  Biography
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  TIME Monday, February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)    map it

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  CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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• Feb

  25

  CS Seminar

  Department of Computer Science (CS)

  12:00 PM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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  Wednesday / CS Seminar
  February 25 / 12:00 PM
  Hybrid / Mudd 3514

  Speaker
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  Biography
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  TIME Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)    map it

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  CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)

• Feb

  26

  Bagel Thursday

  Department of Computer Science (CS)

  9:00 AM 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

  EVENT DETAILS

  CS Community! Join us for our monthly free bagels and coffee while mingling with fellow faculty and students.

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  TIME Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)    map it

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  CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

  CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)