Greg Leppert, Harvard | The Most Boring Dataset in the World
Foresight Institute’s Intelligent Cooperation Group
The Most Boring Dataset in the World
Abstract: Data is a critical raw material in the construction of AI. And, like any component in a high stakes supply chain, it's also a point of leverage. How that leverage is used, or exploited, is a key to safe, reliable, and equitable AI systems. Fortunately, libraries have thoughts.
Bio: Greg Leppert is the Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard, a research initiative working to refine and publish library, academic, and government collections as public datasets for AI training. He is also the Chief Technologist of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Before academia, Greg built startups in NYC and Austin as a designer and engineer. Before startups, he toured the U.S. and Canada in post-rock bands and set type at Hatch Show Print. Greg is a strong believer that most people want to do good in the world and are simply looking for the right way to go about it.
Webpages:
Initiative: https://institutionaldatainitiative.org/
Personal: https://leppert.me/
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