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SUMMARY:The Crisis of Human Collective Decision-making in a Social Media Wo
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Carl T. Bergstrom\, professor in the Dept. of Biology 
	at the University of Washington\, Seattle\n\nWe are a species of informati
	on foragers. Individually and collectively\, we have evolved to scour our 
	natural and social environments for useful information. Over the past twen
	ty years\, society has fashioned the web into an information pipeline to s
	atisfy and profit from our evolved desires for novel information and socia
	l connection.\n\nWhat happens when the scale of human communication is rad
	ically transformed in the span of a generation\, and our mechanisms for cr
	eating collective understanding are upended? What happens when this entire
	 process is not stewarded to promote the spread of accurate information\, 
	strengthen democracy\, and advance human well-being—but rather is engineer
	ed by machine learning algorithms to get people to click on advertisements
	? What happens when large language models such as ChatGPT enter this globa
	l conversation with massive volumes of customized text indistinguishable f
	rom that produced by humans?\n\nIn this talk\, Bergstrom will look at what
	 social media and information technology more generally are doing to socie
	ty\, consider how we ended up here and explore some possible suggestions f
	or what we can do about it.\n\nThis talk is offered both in person and onl
	ine. Light refreshments will be served.\n\nEvent Website: https://www.libr
	ary.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/the-crisis-of-human-collective-decis
	ion-making-in-a-social-media-world-03-04-25/\n\nEvent Website: https://ucl
	a.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ezaBzlF-RIy5gSvOuF6Fdg#/registration\n\nSour
	ce: https://community.ucla.edu/event/fe6f9762-ad76-465d-8b0c-1f12aaff79b1
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) - https://ucla.zoom.us/web
	inar/register/WN_ezaBzlF-RIy5gSvOuF6Fdg#/registration
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