Responsible Computing of Culture & Contextualizing Social Knowledge

What does it mean to work with culture as data responsibly, and how does this change across disciplines and industries?

In-Class Agenda

• Any questions from last week?
• Discuss LLMs as Research Tools and look at their data and survey https://openreview.net/forum?id=p0BwJk3R1p#discussion
• Discuss Myths of Generative AI
• Discuss Responsible Datasets in Context and Final Projects
• Start discussing focus with your groups, which are assigned here and the GitHub Style Guide.

Assigned Materials

• “Mission.” Responsible Datasets in Context (blog), n.d. https://www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/mission.html and discuss final projects
• Liao, Zhehui, Maria Antoniak, Inyoung Cheong, et al. “LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers’ Usage and Perceptions.” arXiv:2411.05025. Preprint, arXiv, October 30, 2024. https://arxiv.org/html/2411.05025v1.
  
• Salvaggio, Eryk. 2024. “Challenging The Myths of Generative AI” Tech Policy Press, August 29. https://techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai.

Assignments

• Complete Initial Interest Survey (link available on Canvas) due by January 21 at midnight.