Help CII combat mis/disinformation

The Center for Information Integrity (CII) brings together nationally-renowned faculty from across academic disciplines — computer and data science, communications and linguistics, law and political science, medicine and public health, learning and information sciences, geography and psychology, art and the humanities — to identify, evaluate, and mitigate the impact of mis/disinformation in key areas of public life, including public health (e.g., vaccine hesitancy), climate change, and the integrity of democratic processes.

CII supports collaborative research, public discussions and community outreach to understand the root causes of mis/disinformation, to identify the driving forces, methods, and accelerants behind its spread, and its legal, ethical and political ramifications, and to develop multi-pronged approaches to combat mis/disinformation.

Goals:

Position CII as the “Conscience of AI” by drawing attention to and inviting conversation on AI impacts in society with a focus on information integrity, ethics, equity, social and environmental justice, educational and legal strategies through:

• Speaker Series to share the diverse range of perspectives of CII Members with students, faculty, staff and the public.
• Podcast in partnership with LINKT, “AI and US: Demystifying Artificial Intelligence.”
• Developing frameworks to assist educators at both secondary and post-secondary levels in making decisions about incorporating AI in classrooms.
• Building an AI Conscience, a collaboration between UB CII and HI to be published as a peer-reviewed volume by SUNY Press. 
• Facilitating civil discourse initiatives integrating humanistic traditions with emerging AI technologies