Tech Talks

Welcome to Tech Talks, our occasional conversations featuring academic experts tackling big, important and timely questions about how technology is changing human society, and the psychological impact of these new technologies.

• November 4, 2022: Technology, Trust, and Coordination (Online workshop - not recorded)

• October 29, 2021: Algorithms and Explanation: A conversation with Tania Lombrozo (Princeton University)

• September 27, 2021: The Privacy Paradox: A conversation featuring researchers Azim Shariff (University of British Columbia), Leslie John (Harvard University), Michal Kosinski (Stanford University). Watch the video!

• August 30, 2021 (11am PT / 2pm ET): Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of AI: A conversation featuring researchers Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse School of Economics), Iyad Rahwan (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), and Azim Shariff (University of British Columbia). Watch the video!

• January 11, 2021: Accelerating Work and Innovation: A conversation featuring experts Amy C. Edmondson (Harvard), Michael Bernstein (Stanford), and Melissa Mazmanian (UC Irvine). Moderated by Hila Lifshitz-Assaf (NYU) and Sarah Lebovitz (University of Virginia). Watch the video!

• October 26, 2020: Algorithms and Decision-Making: Early Career Researchers Data Blitz

  An exclusive virtual seminar featuring six presentations from early career researchers Noah Castelo (University of Alberta), Jennifer M. Logg (Georgetown University), Hatim A. Rahman (Northwestern University), Teodora Tomova Shakur (NYU), Heather Yang (MIT) and Michael Yeomans (Imperial College). Moderated by PTI co-directors Nate Fast (USC) and Juliana Schroeder (UC Berkeley). Watch the video!

• September 21, 2020: Technology and the 2020 Election: A conversation with the author of The Hype Machine, Sinan Aral (MIT), moderated by Nate Fast (USC Marshall, PTI). Watch the video!

• August 31, 2020: Technology and the Future of Power: A conversation with experts Adam Galinsky (Columbia), Deborah Gruenfeld (Stanford), and Jeremy Heimans (CEO, Purpose), moderated by Nate Fast (USC Marshall, PTI). Watch the video!

• July 27, 2020: How Technology is Changing Human Communication: A conversation featuring Alison Wood Brooks (Harvard Business School), Eli J. Finkel (Northwestern/Kellogg), and Jeff Hancock (Stanford), moderated by Juliana Schroeder (UC Berkeley Haas, PTI). Watch the video!