Events

Kara Stewart will speak with us about NC's current American Indian tribes, highlighting her own tribe, the  Sappony, whose traditional territory straddles the NC/VA state line. You can find North Carolina's state and federally recognized tribes on the NC Commission of Indian Affairs website. This meeting is a Zoom “hybrid” meeting.  We will meet at our […]

Automated license plate reader cameras are often presented as simple crime-fighting tools, but systems like Flock create a searchable record of where ordinary people drive, when they travel, and who they may be visiting. This talk will explain how these camera networks work, why they raise serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, and why communities […]

AI is rapidly becoming mandatory for modern militaries. Drone swarms, autonomous weapons, the use of AI for identifying military targets and directing weapons can be highly effective where human control fails. To what extent should AI be trusted with lethal force? What limitations should be placed on AI on the battlefield? What levels of human […]

We are not  having a program since it is the July 4th weekend, and many of you will be out of town. Have a good weekend!

Amid all the wins and losses we have seen in combatting climate change, have we learned anything?  We will listen to two short TED talks about climate change and what funding strategies for combatting climate change actually work, and don't work.  We will then discuss whether we agree with the points made by the two […]