[WTI-trainee] AI in Research Roundtable — April 8th, 9.30 AM (1116)

[Wu Tsai Institute Student and Postdoc Committee]

Dear all,

Names like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other AI technologies have quickly become familiar presences in many of our laptops. These technologies are increasingly being used as practical aids for everyday academic work. At the same time, their growing use raises difficult and important questions. How should we use AI technologies? What are the implications (if any) for authorship, transparency, reproducibility, bias, scientific accountability, privacy, and critical thinking?

Many of us have likely encountered these questions in informal conversations with colleagues, trainees, and collaborators. We are organizing a roundtable on the use of AI in research to bring these conversations into a shared space across the WTI community.

📅 When: Wednesday, April 8th, 9:30–11:00 AM (*trainee morning coffee starting early at 9 am)
📍 Where: Workshop Room 1116, 11th Floor, Wu Tsai Institute, 100 College Street

The event will feature three panelists bringing complementary perspectives on the promises, limits, and implications of AI in academic research:


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Jess Morley<https://dec.yale.edu/jess-morley>, de Vries-Sherif Associate Research Scientist at Yale’s Digital Ethics Center, whose work focuses on digital ethics, governance, and the societal implications of emerging technologies, including AI.
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Ben Glaser<https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/profile/ben-glaser>, Director of AI Initiatives in the Humanities at Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, who brings expertise on the use of AI in teaching, pedagogy, and academic practice.
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Julian Jara-Ettinger<https://psychology.yale.edu/people/julian-jara-ettinger>, Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at the Department of Psychology and WTI, whose work bridges cognitive science and computational approaches to understanding human social intelligence.


To help shape the discussion, we also invite you to share your own questions, doubts, or examples related to the uses (or misuses) of AI technologies in research. These can be shared anonymously via this form<https://forms.gle/5Zoa65GT7q8jWGMF8>.

The goal of this event is not to provide definitive answers to these difficult questions, but rather to create an initial forum for joint discussion about how we want to navigate the use of AI technologies in research.

Don’t forget to add this event to your calendar using the attached calendar invite and invite friends – all welcome!

Hoping to see many of you there!

Best,
Merve Erdogan, Ashlea Segal, and Irene Echeverria-Altuna


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