Are you interested in using Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Chances are, you’re already using it! Dr. Bart will explain how AI systems are (re)shaping the Internet, and how you can use this new technology to your advantage without compromising your online safety and privacy. As a key example, the lecture will discuss POPROX News, a free, AI-powered daily newsletter that delivers a list of Associated Press news stories personally curated for each individual reader. This newsletter is helping researchers study crucial questions surrounding AI-driven personalization and news summarization. By the end of this talk, you will get an opportunity to try out this new AI innovation and help contribute to AI research.

Bart Knijnenburg is a professor in Human-Centered Computing at Clemson University. He has two decades of research experience in the domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a focus on the social and societal consequences of AI systems.