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Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects

Mar 24, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Harms of AI on Communication

4min

The Importance of Context in Communication

6min

The Collapse of Context

4min

The Importance of Context Collapse in Communication

5min

AI and the Fragmentation of Context

4min

The Distribution of Human Natural Language

4min

The Cost of Deception in a Zero Trust Environment

3min

The Importance of Understanding the Environment

2min

10.

The Impacts of AI on Privacy

5min

11.

The Paradox of Maintaining Social Norms

3min

12.

The Importance of Trust in Relationships

4min

13.

The Impossible Future of Relationships

3min

14.

Plural Publics: How to Fix Our Norms

4min

15.

How to Fix Twitter and All of Social Media

5min

16.

Deniable Messaging in Cryptography

2min

17.

The Importance of Context in Group Chat

3min

18.

The Future of the Information Landscape

3min

19.

The Dangers of Decontextualizing Technology

5min

Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”.

Shrey’s recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plural Publics” is linked in the episode notes.

Links & References:

Georg Simmel and The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies
John Dewey on The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry on JSTOR
Scamming in AI via The Washington Post - They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam.
"Privacy as Contextual Integrity" by Helen Nissenbaum
Also see: Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of... (book)
Jaron Lanier on How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media - The Atlantic
AI Education - Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The Atlantic
Shrey Jain, Divya Siddarth, and E. Glen Weyl. “Plural Publics.” Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, March 20, 2023.

Bios:

Shrey Jain (he/him) is an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects. His research area is AI Security and Cryptography with a specific focus on information integrity in an era of generative AI. Shrey's work has been featured in CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, National Post, CTV News, and the Toronto Star.

Shrey’s Social Links:
Twitter: @shreyjaineth
Connect with Shrey on LinkedIn
Shrey’s Substack: Glasswing

Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.

Matt’s Social LInks:
Twitter: @m_t_prewitt
Matt’s Substack: Matt's Writings

Production Credits:

Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.
Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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