Morning sessions: 

8:30 – 9:00: Registration and Light Breakfast 

9:00 – 9:15: Welcome Remarks from the Provost 

9:15 – 10:00: AI & Higher Education: Responsible use of AI in universities

• Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner, Associate Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and Eldar Sarajlic, Associate Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
• Lucie Mingla, Lecturer, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
• Robert Kunicki, Director for New Student Programs, Baruch College 
• Moderator: Meechal Hoffman, Senior Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, Baruch College

10:15 – 11:00: AI & Social Justice: Fairness, bias, equity, and discrimination concerns 

• İrem Tümer, Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship LLM Candidate, Cornell University
• Elan Silver, Senior Counsel and Committee Director, NYS Senate Committees: Internet and Technology & Elections, Office of State Senator Kristen Gonzalez
• Sean Rowland, Master of International Affairs Student, Baruch College
• Moderator: Angie Beeman, Professor, Marxe School of Public & International Affairs; Affiliate Faculty with Black and Latinx Studies, Baruch College

11:15 – 12:00: AI & Democracy: Political and (dis)information landscapes

• Ofer Hermoni, Founder and Chief AI Officer at iForAI, and Co-Founder and former Technical Advisory Committee Chair at the Linux Foundation AI & Data Initiative
• Andrew Miller, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School 
• John Deckers, Master of International Affairs Student, Baruch College
• Moderator: Rhiannon Neilsen, Assistant Professor, Marxe School of Public & International Affairs, Baruch College

Midday sessions: 

12:00-12:45: Lunch

12:45 – 1:20: Fireside chat: AI in Business and Finance

• Minerva Tantoco, Tech Strategy Consultant and Board Director, Former First CTO of the City of New York
• Moderator: William Organek, Assistant Professor of Law, Baruch College

1:30 – 2:15: Keynote

• Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
• Moderator: David Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Law, Baruch College

Afternoon sessions: 

2:30 – 3:15: AI & the Environment: Environmental impact of generative AI

• Kiran Garimella, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
• Marc N. Conte, Professor of Economics, Fordham University
• Ariel Taub, Master of International Affairs Student, Baruch College
• Moderator: Valerie Watnick, Professor of Law, Baruch College

3:30 – 4:15: AI & Creativity: Promises and perils  

• Katherine Behar, Professor of New Media Arts, Baruch College 
• David Schwittek, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Graphic Design, Lehman College, CUNY
• Michael Loiacono, VP of Global Sales, Bria.ai 
• Moderator: Yafit Lev-Aretz, Associate Professor of Law, Baruch College

4:15 – 5:00: Networking Reception

Organizing Committee

Elizabeth Edenberg, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Weissman School, Baruch College

Yafit Lev-Aretz, Associate Professor of Law, Zicklin School, Baruch College

Rhiannon Neilsen, Assistant Professor of International Security, Marxe School, Baruch College

Registration

Complimentary registration is required to attend. Register online or via e-mail:

• To register online, please click here or
• E-mail us at ruzdo.srdanovic@baruch.cuny.edu

PELTA

The Ethical A.I.ms Symposium marks the launch of PELTA, a Policy, Ethics, Law, Technology and AI initiative at Baruch, which will include a podcast and a series of interdisciplinary policy briefs. 

As part of the launch of Baruch College’s PELTA – Policy, Ethics, Law, Technology and AI program – we are advertising PAID prizes ($250.00) for ~10 undergraduate and/or graduate Baruch College, CUNY students. This will be a research assistantship contributing to the PELTA project, and it provides students with an exciting opportunity to publish on the political, ethical, or legal implications of AI in PELTA.

For additional information please click here.

Program Support:

The conference is made possible by generous support from The Provost’s Office, the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity at Baruch College, and CUNY’s Office of Academic Affairs AI Innovation Fund.