Guidelines to creating a chatbot

With all the hype around chatbots, I was glad to get a chance to actually get some experience in developing one. A few weeks ago, within our Immerstive Automation project, we had Nick Diakopoulos, an Associate Professor in computational and data journalism, lead a workshop on creating chatbots. I was very excited to get to build […]

Balancing privacy and ethical rights when detecting harmful behaviors

Over the past few years, companies like Google, Twitter, or Facebook have had to walk a fine line between policing negative behaviors such as hate speech, terrorism, fake news, etc., and supporting basic rights of free speech online. With the increase in aggressive, terrorism, cyberbullying, hate speech, and racist communication, as well as expressions of […]