Legal scholar Martha Minow to give Oct. 22 Compton Lecture
To the members of the MIT community:
I invite you to join me on Thursday, October 22, as renowned legal scholar Martha Minow delivers the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture.
Constituting Democracy in the Era of AI
Thursday, October 22
4–5:15 p.m. ET
Huntington Hall (10-250)
Accessible seating, live captioning viewable from your personal device, and ASL interpreters will be available during the lecture. If you need any alternate accommodations, please contact ieoffice@mit.edu.
Since the first Compton Lecture in 1957, the series has highlighted leaders noted for their universality of thought and their influence on human values.
The 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and former dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow is an expert in constitutional law and human rights.
She is the author of the book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech, and co-author with Cynthia Dwork of the article “Distrust of Artificial Intelligence: Sources and Responses from Computer Science and Law.”
Starting from the premise that democracy can only succeed with a foundation of “education, reliable accessible information sources, security from violence, and fair play between people and fairness in political and economic systems,” her lecture will explore how recent technologies tend to undermine democracy's essential ingredients and will encourage us to harness technology’s power to strengthen these systems instead.
If you would like to submit a question for Professor Minow, please fill out this Qualtrics survey by 5 p.m. ET on Wednesday, October 14.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the lecture.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
President