Swapneel Mehta visits the Chair – Talk in the DS 202 Closing Event

Dr. Swapneel Mehta, academic/entrepreneur and co-founder of SimPPL, will visit the Chair on Friday, January 30 as a guest to the Closing Wvent of the DS 202 class in room A.001–003 (B6, E-F), starting at 10.30 a.m. His talk is titled titled "Arbiter: Improving Digital Safety with AI Agents", the abstract reads:

“Arbiter is a public observatory for digital discourse built by the team at SimPPL, a nonprofit, focused on rebuilding digital trust. We work with journalists, civil society actors, and UN agencies to support the investigation of digital harms spreading across social networks including X, Meta, Reddit, TikTok, Bluesky, and others. Our work has previously resulted in Meta's adversarial threats takedown, internal investigations into Russian bots by Twitter, been featured by Google, Mozilla, and won several grants from philanthropic funders investing in information integrity. In this talk we will walk through how to develop systems like Arbiter to generate insights from public conversations online in order to rebuild digital trust in online information.”

Afterwards, the student teams of the class DS 202 – Seminar and Lab on Machine Learning and Causal Inference (MMSDS) will present the projects they did during the term. Each group has built a dashboard for a topic of their choice and will be presenting their finished product to the audience and answer questions.