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Wardle is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and Co-Founder of the non-profit First Draft and the Information Futures Lab at Brown University.

Wardle’s research focuses on user-generated content, verification and misinformation.  She has spent the past two decades working across sectors, including as an academic at different universities in the U.K. and the U.S., working with different international news organizations as well as the United Nations, and advising different policy-makers.

Her current work is attempting to understand how more effective responses to community information needs by and with communities might create resilience against misinformation.

Everyday people struggle to find information they can use to make decisions that will hopefully keep themselves and their families safe and healthy. Her work centers the voices in communities who can help others find relevant information they can trust. This research can only happen by partnering with communities to co-design and co-create research questions and interventions that make sense to different communities in Ithaca, across New York state and the wider world.

Thursday, April 10:

10:00    Welcome and goal setting (David Castillo and Venu Govindaraju)

10:30    Meet new members and friends of CII (15-20 minutes each)

        o   Shadi Sandvik, SUNY Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development

        o   Cynthia Stewart, DART Collective

        o   Mike Kicey, University Libraries AI Advisory Group

        o   John Beverley, Co-Director of the National Center for Ontological Research (Via Zoom @ 11:40)

        o   Manoj Mate, Prof. of Law

        o   Melissa McCarron and students

12:30      Lunch Buffet

1:30         Meet new members and friends (continued)

        o   Chip Ionita, Associate Prof. in Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery

        o   Lindsay Hunter, Fake People book project

2:00         Check-in on what CII Members have been doing this year.
                We will ask each CII member and guest to briefly describe their work as it relates to unreliable information (~5 minutes each)

3:45      Christine Wang, Center on Early Literacy & Responsible AI

Friday, April 11

10:00    David Castillo, Welcome and Intro to Day 2

10:10    Atri Rudra, AI and Society Department

10:30    The Impossible Project—Camillo Trumper & Matt Kenyon, Jay Barber & Chris Proctor, and Dalia Muller, Atri Rudra & Kenny Joseph and students

11:30    Keynote Speaker: Claire Wardle, Cornell Dept. of Communication, Co-Founder of Brown University Information Futures Lab

12:30    Lunch Buffet

1:00       Brainstorming potential CII initiatives to further our strategic goal of positioning the Center as the conscience of AI at UB.  Two rounds (45 minutes each) of small group discussions: [This is to allow everyone to participate in two different conversations if they wish and to get more voices in each conversation.]

        o   De-biasing Existing AIs (CSE & Humanities combo)

        o   Awareness-raising, Lobbying, and Policy (Arts and Law folks)

        o   Health & Mental Health Impacts of AI

            §  Public Health

            §  Addiction

            §  Mental Health (Social Media)

            §  AI in the workforce

            §  How AI will impact our physical spaces

            §  Other

2:30     Report outs and discussion with the goal of selecting initiatives to pursue and designating a champion to coordinate work on each

3:30     End