Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception?: Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs

October 15, 2022 at 1:30pm EST
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What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algorithms help to provide security but also risk an encroachment on privacy. The ability to create convincing but misleading perceptions, to create... read more! »

What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algorithms help to provide security but also risk an encroachment on privacy. The ability to create convincing but misleading perceptions, to create false narratives and false worlds, has great potential for abuse.

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This is a past event that happened on October 15, 2022 at 1:30pm EST.

Participants

Laura Edelson

Postdoctoral Researcher, New York University

Laura Edelson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at New York University with the Cybersecurity for Democracy project, which she co-directs with Damon McCoy. There, she leads the Ad Observatory and Ad Observer projects, which aim to increase public transparency of digital advertising, particularly during elections. Her research focuses on studying the spread of misinformation and other... read more! »

Andrew Guess

Assistant Professor, Politics & Public Affairs, Princeton University

Andy Guess is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods, large datasets, machine learning, and innovative measurement, he studies how people choose, process, spread, and respond to information... read more! »

Susana Martinez-Conde

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Susana Martinez-Conde is an award-winning neuroscientist, author, and professor at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University. She is the founder and Executive Director of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest, which inspired her most recent book, “Champions of Illusion,” published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. Her first book, the... read more! »

Yotam Ophir

Assistant Professor, Communication, University at Buffalo

Yotam Ophir (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2018) is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University at Buffalo. His work combines computational methods for text mining, network analysis, experiments and surveys to study media content and effects in the areas of political, science, and health communication. Dr. Ophir authored and co-authored more than 30 peer-review... read more! »