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SUMMARY:Campus Lecture with Chelsea Manning
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DESCRIPTION:Chelsea E. Manning\, Prof. Carmela Troncoso\n"The Future of P
 rivacy and Data in Wartime"\n\nOrganized by C4DT - EPFL Center for Digital
  Trust\, and Trust Valley\n\n@ EPFL Campus Forum Rolex\, and online\n\nPro
 gram\n\n5:15pm Door opening \n5:30pm Welcoming words\n5:40pm Panel discus
 sion with Chelsea Manning and Prof. Carmela Troncoso\nModeration by Dan
 iel Saraga\, Journalist\n6:15pm Q&A\n7:00pm Cocktail\n\nIntroduction\nChel
 sea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert whose actions
  showed the world that the conscience of individuals can make urgent chang
 e through bravery and determination. She speaks on the social\, technologi
 cal\, and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence\, and on the p
 ractical applications of machine learning. She is a vocal advocate for gov
 ernment transparency and queer and transgender rights as @xychelsea on Twi
 tter and through her op-ed columns for The Guardian and The New York Times
 .\n\nHistory\nChelsea E. Manning worked as an intelligence analyst for the
  U.S. Department of Defense where she publicly disclosed classified docume
 nts that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S.
  wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Upon being sentenced to 35 years for unauth
 orized disclosure of government documents—an unprecedented amount of tim
 e for the charges alleged—she publicly identified as a trans woman and a
 sserted her legal rights to medical therapy. After serving 7 years in mili
 tary prison\, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence to time served.
  She was released in 2017. After release in 2017\, she ran in the 2018 Mar
 yland state senatorial primary\, receiving the second highest number of De
 mocratic votes\n(just over 6%). In 2019\, she was the subject of the docum
 entary film XY Chelsea. In March 2019\, she refused to testify before a fe
 deral grand jury on ethical grounds. She was jailed for a year and forced 
 to pay a civil fine of $256\,000. In 2021\, Manning worked as a security c
 onsultant for Nymtech\, a privacy\noriented technology project\, before tr
 ansitioning to an employee for Nym as a hardware optimization and security
  advisor.\n\nAbstract\nChelsea E. Manning shares her insights on the parad
 ox presented by rapid advances in technology: On the one hand\, we have gr
 eater access to information\, connection\, entertainment\, and innovation 
 in the fields of communication\, and healthcare than we have ever had befo
 re\, and this capacity is only growing. On the other hand\, technological 
 advances can and have been used to surveil\, control\, anticipate\, and so
 metimes even kill. This capacity too\, is growing. The wild diversity of c
 ultures\, languages\, lifestyles\, and relationships that are so often cit
 ed as some of the miraculous outcomes of our connectivity is also shrinkin
 g due to these same advances. Here\, we think about statistical “nudges
 ” in big data algorithms that create gender\, racial\, ethnic\, gender i
 dentity\, sexual orientation\, religious\, political and other biases acro
 ss large swaths of the online population\, intensifying polarization. We t
 hink about the heavy focus on precision targeting swing voters in the poli
 tical realm. In short\, no technology is neutral\, and internal biases nec
 essarily shape the outcome of technological change. Real people in real pl
 aces in real time are affected – sometimes on an immense scale. Manning 
 discusses the importance of the human element in development of technology
  and the imperative to operate with responsibility\, accountability\, and 
 a strong moral compass\, for the sake of not only our privacy\, but for th
 e future of humanity\, which may very well depend on it.\n\nTopics\nartifi
 cial intelligence\, government transparency\, human rights\, technology\, 
 transgender rights\n\nLinks\n\n	https://www.aaronswartzday.org/chelsea-man
 ning-2015/\n	https://www.vogue.com/video/watch/chelsea-manning-sxsw-interv
 iew\n	https://www.heidi.news/innovation-solutions/exclusif-chelsea-manning
 -rejoint-le-projet-d-une-start-up-suisse\n	https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2
 021/08/25/privacy-startup-nym-hires-whistleblower-chelsea-manning-to-audit
 -mixnet/\n
LOCATION:Forum Rolex https://youtu.be/PhOk3vVa6zE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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