New capabilities of language and diffusion models enable applications that interact with users across different modalities, perform independent actions, and leverage external tools. In the seminar, we will study how these capabilities create new privacy and security challenges by analyzing recent papers in ML and S&P communities and connecting discovered problems to fundamental issues from previous decades. As part of the course there will be an opportunity to conduct a research project that goes deeper into these problems.

This interdisciplinary course teaches students how to translate feminist scholarship for a popular audience. Students practice how to use knowledge and concepts they have learned in their women and gender studies classes to write publicly in a range of formats, including book and film reviews, interviews, opinion editorials and feature articles. The course explores the history and practice of feminist public writing, with particular attention to how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, disability and citizenship in women’s experiences of public writing.