Digital technology is incorporated into nearly every facet of American life; it is integral to commerce, community, healthcare, food systems, transportation, education, media, entertainment, and employment. What emerging technologies are complicating the ability to verify authenticity and integrity in a digital world? And what emerging technologies enable the creation of systems of trust that enforce standards of authenticity, integrity, and security? How can partnerships between government, universities, and companies shape public policy to prioritize authenticity and integrity within systems, and who will be the stewards and custodians of such systems?
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Kristina Johnson, Chancellor of The State University of New York
TRUST IN THE DIGITAL FUTURE
Janna Anderson, Director of the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University
Lee Rainie, Director of Internet, Science, and Technology Research at Pew Research Center
DIGITAL TOOLS FOR PREVENTING FAKERY, DECEPTION, AND BIAS
Identiying and quantifying bias in language models; building consumer trust in IoT systems; and using media forensics to detect image manipulation
Aylin Caliskan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the George Washington University
Danny Huang, Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Matt Turek, Media Forensics Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
ENSURING AUTHENTICITY AND TRUST IN DIGITAL SYSTEMS
Can quantum computing and blockchain enable solutions to verifying and ensuring authenticity and integrity in digital systems?
Mark Jackson, Scientific Lead of Business Development at Cambridge Quantum Computing
Mike Orcutt, Associate Editor for MIT Technology Review
DATA ETHICS, GOVERNANCE, AND PARTNERSHIPS
Wendy Belluomini, Director of IBM Research Ireland
Anjanette Raymond, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University