Sept/Oct 2024 Newsletter
The Public Interest Technologist Newsletter brings together the most recent articles, publications, and interviews for you to discover.
The Case for Creating a Biodiversity Data & Policy Agency for Latin America
Claudia Camargo Dobles
April/May 2024 Newsletter
The Public Interest Technologist Newsletter brings together the most recent articles, publications, and interviews for you to discover.
Could We Create a New Career Path for Advanced Manufacturing – the Technologist?
MIT Public Interest Technologist
Few-shot Learning and AI beyond Code
Claire Gorman. As deep learning and artificial intelligence have improved dramatically, few-shot learning offers new forms of accessibility to AI models.
PIT Student Initiative Spotlight @ MIT: Code for Good
By Will Reed and Isaac Taylor. Two MIT undergraduate students share with the Technologist community how they use their coding skills to support non-profits in the greater Boston area.
February/March 2024 Newsletter
The Public Interest Technologist Newsletter brings together the most recent articles, publications, and interviews for you to discover.
AI and the new Eternal Return
The Public Interest Technologist. It is time for a "Minimum Standard of Care for AI" that can regulate an acceptable minimal conduct for companies and individuals that deploy AI outside the regulatory borders of their respective countries.
Environmental Intelligence: Hello (AI-Assisted, Open-Source) World
Claire Gorman. According to GitHub’s CEO, the platform’s new AI-based coding assistant wrote over a billion lines of operational code over the course of 2023.
Large Language Models for Augmented Reading
MIT Public Interest Technologist. A curious scientific paper on millipedes helps us consider what Large Language Models (LLMs) can teach us about the construction and dissemination of environmental intelligence.
Clinical Education and Public Interest Technology
MIT Public Interest Technologist
Environmental Intelligence: AI, Truth, and the Environmental Public
Claire Gorman. The present era of global climate emergency invites consideration of the “public interest” in environmental terms.
Registration: PIT-UN Convening at Boston University (October 12-13, 2023)
Boston University (BU), in partnership with New America’s PIT program, will host the annual Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Convening on October 12-13, 2023 at the newly constructed Center for Computing & Data Sciences.
Applications Open to Become a SERC Scholar!
SERC (Social and Ethical Responsibilities in Computing) Scholars Program is now open for applications for the 2023-2024 cohort! This program is open to undergraduate and graduate students across MIT.
What is the Public Interest Technology University Network (PITUN)?
The Public Interest Technology University Network (PITUN) includes sixty-three universities across the United States.[1] Each approaches Public Interest Technology
What is the Public Interest Technologist?
The Public Interest Technologist is a new online publication aimed at helping the MIT community think together about the social responsibilities of students, faculty, staff and alumni who design and implement technologies of various kinds.