{"id":6350,"date":"2024-07-30T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/?post_type=pressmedia&p=6350"},"modified":"2024-07-30T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T20:27:00","slug":"second-annual-ccc-in-person-event-trust-and-human-connection-in-the-age-of-social-networks-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"pressmedia","link":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/pressmedia\/second-annual-ccc-in-person-event-trust-and-human-connection-in-the-age-of-social-networks-and-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Second annual CCC in-person event: Trust and Human Connection in the Age of Social Networks and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 7, 2024 more than 150 attendees, including many from CCC\u2019s closely affiliated non-profit, <a href=\"https:\/\/cortico.ai\/\">Cortico<\/a>, spent a full day at MIT engaging in conversation and exploration related to the rapidly changing world of social networks and the growing challenges of integrating generative AI into this changing landscape in a positive way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We covered a lot of ground in one day, so the CCC team put together a multimedia medley that we hope provides an overview of some of the event\u2019s key themes, including highlights from the three fireside chats (detailed below), CCC Director Deb Roy\u2019s \u201cstate of the network\u201d talk, and the six workshops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is only fitting, these highlights were gathered and produced by CCCers who listened to the recordings, created the highlights, and tagged those highlights with prominent themes from an AI-generated codebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MIT CCC May 7 Conversation Highlights | Audio Medley\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CFhZ1qHs4sc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the interactive workshops (some of which have highlights in the medley), attendees were invited to view more than 20 research projects that showcased new tools, methods, and systems focused on combining the ancient wisdoms of human conversation with emerging digital technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carrying through with the importance of facilitated conversations to CCC\u2019s work, the day also included a lunch-time game activity, where all attendees got to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.mit.edu\/projects\/analogia\/overview\/\">Analogia<\/a> with those at their lunch tables. The game, developed by CCC master\u2019s candidate Cassie Lee, involves sharing your honest\u2013and sometimes challenging\u2013stories as players use prompts and fantastical images to forge new human connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to learn more? You can find video highlights of key sessions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLNW93TBi3jJPozwMROoVNaLKDIV9dHnUJ\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>– CCC Director Deb Roy’s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wseyp_JvNYQ&list=PLNW93TBi3jJPozwMROoVNaLKDIV9dHnUJ&index=6\">opening remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>– CCC Director Deb Roy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jS6486xcMkk&list=PLNW93TBi3jJPozwMROoVNaLKDIV9dHnUJ&index=3\">State of the Network talk<\/a>, which outlined some of the challenges and potential solutions for a world where trust continues to erode at an alarming rate\u2013a world where the content of social media posts are too often divisive opinions and falsehoods that spread virally. He likened the current online experience to \u201cstumbling from private spaces directly into Times Square.\u201d Emphasizing that communications should only move \u201cat the speed of trust,\u201d Roy stressed the importance of trusted human connection and the role that a new <a href=\"https:\/\/cortico.ai\/platform\/\">social dialogue network<\/a> could play in fostering these connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>– <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Wseyp_JvNYQ?si=ni27YxO2Bl8v1SZN&t=624\">On Democracy<\/a>: Legal scholar and CCC senior advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/hls.harvard.edu\/faculty\/martha-l-minow\/\">Martha Minow<\/a><em>, <\/em>300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard Law School, in conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.virginia.edu\/faculty\/adjunct-profile\/mcb2be\/2698863\">Melody Barnes<\/a>, US public policy expert and director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/\">Miller Center of Public Affairs<\/a> at the University of Virginia, \u00a0moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/andrew-heyward\/\">Andrew Heyward<\/a>, CCC senior advisor and former head of CBS News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>– <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jS6486xcMkk&list=PLNW93TBi3jJPozwMROoVNaLKDIV9dHnUJ&index=3\">On Trust<\/a>: AI leader <a href=\"https:\/\/allenai.org\/team\/orene\">Oren Etzioni<\/a>, former chief executive officer at AI2, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, advisor and board member for AI2, and technical director of the AI2 Incubator, in conversation with disinformation expert <a href=\"https:\/\/vivo.brown.edu\/display\/cwardle\">Claire Wardle<\/a>, co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab, and professor of the practice at the Brown School of Public Health, moderated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/professor-dimitra-dimitrakopoulou\/\">Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou<\/a>, head of CCC\u2019s translational research team,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>– <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jS6486xcMkk&list=PLNW93TBi3jJPozwMROoVNaLKDIV9dHnUJ&index=3\">On Listening<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/person\/katherine-crame\/\">Professor Kathy Cramer<\/a>, Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science and Virginia Sapiro Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose research focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics, their connections to each other, and to their governments, in conversation with youth development practitioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarktrust.org\/robert_clark_cochair\">Robert Clark,<\/a> founder and CEO of the Newark Opportunity Youth Network, moderated by Deb Roy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6350","pressmedia","type-pressmedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pressmedia\/6350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pressmedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pressmedia"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccc.mit.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}