AI and Us: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence

Cynthia Tysick, Innovative Pedagogy Librarian, and Dr. David Castillo, professor of Spanish and Co-Director of the UB Center for Information Integrity discuss education as the front line of AI adoption.

Cynthia Tysick, Innovative Pedagogy Librarian, and Dr. David Castillo, professor of Spanish and Co-Director of the UB Center for Information Integrity discuss deepfakes, biased models, and media trust.

Cynthia Tysick, Innovative Pedagogy Librarian, and Dr. David Castillo, professor of Spanish and Co-Director of the UB Center for Information Integrity discuss how AI succeeds in some domains but fails in others.

Cynthia Tysick, Innovative Pedagogy Librarian, and Dr. David Castillo, professor of Spanish and Co-Chair of the UB Center for Information Integrity discuss broad impacts of AI on society and democracy.

We’ll be looking at the social cost of using AI. As it begins to permeate into our lives more and more, through our phones, workplaces, and household gadgets there are implications that we may not have considered.

We’re going to move beyond the electricity issue and look at broader environmental impacts of using AI. 

We’re going to talk about the issues around powering our AIs. There has been some controversy around how much it actually costs in terms of dollars as well as the cost to our electric grid.

We’re going to go “behind the curtain” of AI technology to help you understand how AI generates the stunning results and epic failures we’ve all experienced.