Calendar

Februrary

Genz and Johnathan Haidt / Wed 26th 4 – 5pm (Zoom) Sold Out, we’ll share a recording afterwards.

PHONES IN SCHOOLS?

February 26th, 4pm

A SMC Community Conversation – with moderator Emma Lembke 

March

Board Meeting / 5pm / 6pm Thurs March 6th. (Mintz and In Person)

Richard Stengel and Kanika Mehe / March 6th – 6-8pm / Mintz and Zoom.

America’s Information war comes home. 

Presented in partnership with All Tech is Human and Mintz. 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/americas-information-war-comes-home-tickets-1244075877439?aff=oddtdtcreator

SXSW – Emma Lembke / Monday March 10th — Austin 16ab

Talk Summary: “How Gen Z is Rebuilding Social Media from the Ground Up”

Speaker: Emma Lembke, Gen Z Board Member at the Sustainable Media Center

Emma Lembke, a leading advocate for digital well-being, co-founder of Log Off, and Gen Z Board Member at the Sustainable Media Center, explores how young people are taking an active role in reshaping social media. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z has grown up fully immersed in digital spaces—witnessing both the benefits and the deep harms of platforms designed for profit-driven engagement. Rather than passively accepting the status quo, they are rejecting extractive models and rebuilding social media from the ground up, centering mental health, authentic connection, and user empowerment.

SXSW – Steven Rosenbaum / 11:30 – 12:30 Wed March 12th. / Austin Salon C
Can AI Be Trained to Be Ethical, and Will It?

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP149992

As AI systems become increasingly integral to our daily lives, ensuring they operate ethically is critical, but it might be impossilbe. This panel will explore the feasibility of training AI to adhere to ethical guidelines and the real-world implementation of such principles. Our esteemed panelists will discuss current methodologies for embedding ethics into AI, the role of regulatory frameworks, and the challenges faced in maintaining ethical standards in diverse applications. Through this dialogue, we aim to uncover whether ethical AI is a plausible goal and the steps needed to achieve it.

April

TED – Vancouver, Advisors mtg, and embargoed news.