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Abstracts: August 15, 2024
| Amber Tingle, Shrey Jain, and Zoë Hitzig
Advanced AI may make it easier for bad actors to deceive others online. A multidisciplinary research team is exploring one solution: a credential that allows people to show they’re not bots without sharing identifying information. Shrey Jain and Zoë Hitzig…
What’s Your Story: Weishung Liu
| Johannes Gehrke and Weishung Liu
Principal PM Manager Weishung Liu shares how a career delivering products and customer experiences aligns with her love of people and storytelling and how—despite efforts to defy the expectations that come with growing up in Silicon Valley—she landed in tech.
Intern Insights: Dr. Madeleine Daepp with Jennifer Scurrell and Alejandro Cuevas
| Madeleine Daepp, Alejandro Cuevas, and Jennifer Scurrell
Connecting with researchers, collaborating across disciplines, and exploring a new city—PhD students Jennifer Scurrell and Alejandro Cuevas talk to Senior Researcher Madeleine Daepp about the internship experience at Microsoft Research.
In the news | OpenAI
Democratic Inputs to AI
Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.
Collaborators: Gov4git with Petar Maymounkov and Kasia Sitkiewicz
| Gretchen Huizinga, Petar Maymounkov, and Kasia Sitkiewicz
Collaboration is key to bringing ideas from lab to life. In the first episode of the #MSRPodcast series “Collaborators,” learn how GitHub’s Kasia Sitkiewicz and Protocol Labs’ Petar Maymounkov are teaming up to make open-source collaborative work better.
Research Focus: Week of April 24, 2023
Welcome to Research Focus, a series of blog posts that highlights notable publications, events, code/datasets, new hires and other milestones from across the research community at Microsoft. Yael Tauman Kalai, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, has been awarded…
In the news | COMPLEXITY podcast
Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society
This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI’s Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor…
In the news | Emprendedor.com
Startups latinas compiten para reforzar la democracia en el Tech4democracy
El próximo lunes 10 de octubre se llevará a cabo en la Universidad de los Andes el Latin America’s Tech4democracy Venture Day, una iniciativa de IE University y el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos para promover negocios donde la…
In the news | AméricaEconomía.com
Soluciones de startups latinoamericanas compiten para reforzar la democracia en Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica
Bogotá. El próximo lunes 10 de octubre tendrá lugar en la Universidad de los Andes, el Tech4democracy Venture Day Latinoamérica, una iniciativa de IE University y el departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos que buscar impulsar aquellos emprendimientos cuya…