{ "134714-21874780": { "datetime_modified":"20250411T102027", "datetime_start":"20250411T110000", "datetime_end":"20250411T130000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2025-04-11", "date_end":"2025-04-11", "time_start":"11:00:00", "time_end":"13:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"David Widder: Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"David Widder: Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Workshop \/ Seminar", "event_type_id":"21", "description":"Talk AbstractIn the context of unprecedented \r\nU.S. Department of Defense (DoD) \r\nbudgets, this talk examines the recent history of DoD funding for \r\nacademic research in algorithmically based warfighting. I draw from a \r\ncorpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023, focusing on those \r\naddressed to researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). \r\nConsidering the implications of DoD funding for academic research, the \r\ntalk proceeds through three analytic sections. In the first, I offer a\r\n critical examination of the distinction between basic and applied \r\nresearch, showing how funding calls framed as basic research nonetheless\r\n enlist researchers in a war fighting agenda. In the second, I offer a \r\ndiachronic analysis of the corpus, showing how a \u2018one small problem\u2019 \r\ncaveat, in which affirmation of progress in military technologies is \r\nqualified by acknowledgement of outstanding problems, becomes \r\njustification for additional investments in research. I close with an \r\nanalysis of DoD aspirations based on a subset of Defense Advanced \r\nResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) grant solicitations for the use of AI \r\nin battlefield applications. Taken together, I argue that grant \r\nsolicitations work as a vehicle for the mutual enlistment of DoD funding\r\n agencies and the academic AI research community in setting research \r\nagendas. The trope of basic research in this context offers shelter from\r\n significant moral questions that military applications of one\u2019s \r\nresearch would raise, by obscuring the connections that implicate \r\nresearchers in U.S. militarism.\nSpeakerDavid Gray Widder (he\/him) studies how people creating \u201cArtificial \r\nIntelligence\u201d systems think about the downstream harms their systems \r\nmake possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics \r\nwhich shape these thoughts. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, and earned his PhD from the School of Computer Science\r\n at Carnegie Mellon University. He has previously conducted research at \r\nIntel Labs, Microsoft Research, and NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. \r\nHis recent research has been accepted to FAccT, Nature, CSCW, and Big Data & Society. His scholarly and activist work has appeared in Motherboard, Wired, the Associated Press, and the New York Times. David was born in Tillamook, Oregon, and raised in Berlin and Singapore. He maintains a conceptual-realist artistic practice, advocates against police terror and pervasive surveillance, and enjoys distance running. You can engage with him on Mastodon, Bluesky, or Twitter.\n\n\n", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"134714-21874780@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/134714", "building_id":"", "building_name":"", "campus_maps_id":"", "room":"", "location_name":"North Quad 2255", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["Sessions"], "website":"https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/p\/track\/14197", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"Sessions @ Michigan", "group_id":"4791", "website":"https:\/\/sessions.studentlife.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":1, "first_occurrence":21874780 } , "134638-21874646": { "datetime_modified":"20250410T101007", "datetime_start":"20250411T110000", "datetime_end":"20250411T140000", "has_end_time":1, "date_start":"2025-04-11", "date_end":"2025-04-11", "time_start":"11:00:00", "time_end":"14:00:00", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Above- and Belowground Functional Trait Variation and Its Effect on Tree Seedling Response to Environmental Change", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Above- and Belowground Functional Trait Variation and Its Effect on Tree Seedling Response to Environmental Change: Samuel Schaffer-Morrison", "event_subtitle":"Samuel Schaffer-Morrison", "event_type":"Workshop \/ Seminar", "event_type_id":"21", "description":"Dissertation Title: Above- and Belowground Functional Trait Variation and Its Effect on Tree Seedling Response to Environmental Change\r\n\r\nAbstract: To predict forest composition and function under global change it is important to understand tree responses to environmental shifts. This is especially true for seedlings, as the seedling stage represents an important forest recruitment bottleneck. Therefore, understanding the capability of seedlings of different tree species to respond to environmental changes will provide insight into how forests may look in the future. Tree responses depend on their ecological strategies, which can be defined by the functional traits of their leaves and roots, organs responsible for resource uptake above- and belowground. Prior work at the interspecific scale suggests that traits separate into three independent axes: above- and belowground resource conservation axes describing plants resource uptake efficiency and investment in organ construction, and a belowground collaboration axis describing the degree to which plants rely on mycorrhizal fungi \u2013 key root symbionts that aid in resource capture belowground. However, no work to date has explicitly tested if the proposed collaboration axis accurately describes how plants associate with mycorrhizal fungi, and therefore the extent to which roots and their symbionts contribute to nutrient uptake within species remains largely untested. My dissertation addresses this through four chapters that systematically examine patterns of plant functional trait variation and their implications for seedlings success.\r\n\r\nIn Chapter 1, I outline the current understanding of the relationships between roots and mycorrhizal fungi in trees, proposing that because roots and mycorrhizal fungi operate together, we should examine both simultaneously to get a thorough understanding of resource acquisition strategies belowground. In Chapter 2, I examined whether the collaboration axis exists independently of the two resource conservation axes intraspecifically within seedlings of Quercus rubra, Acer rubrum, A. saccharum, and P. serotina collected across Michigan. I found that aboveground traits are independent of belowground traits, however belowground traits aligned on a single axis, further calling into question the functionality of the collaboration axis.\r\n\r\nIn Chapter 3, I examined the degree to which plant functional traits of tree seedlings vary with communities of mycorrhizal fungi across a nitrogen (N) gradient. Changes in N impact the function of plants and mycorrhizal fungi alike, though no study to date has examined both simultaneously. I collected seedlings of two different mycorrhizal types: Q. rubra (ectomycorrhizal; EcM), and A. rubrum and P. serotina (arbuscular mycorrhizal; AM). Some EcM fungi can provide access to organic N that is otherwise inaccessible to plants, providing an advantage at low N. I found that seedlings tended to be more acquisitive belowground at higher N, EcM access to organic N decreased with N, and that traits not included in the collaboration axis change with mycorrhizal function, suggesting that the proposed collaboration axis is insufficient to describe plant reliance on mycorrhizae.\r\n\r\nIn Chapter 4, I applied the trait patterns observed within species in prior chapters to see how variation in traits affects seedling growth under multiple environmental stresses. Prior work examined responses of plants to a single stress; yet stresses rarely occur alone. I grew seedlings of Q. rubra, A. rubrum, and A. saccharum in the greenhouse under three levels of water and light, measuring their growth and functional traits. I found that growth decreased under multiple stresses less than is expected based upon the reduction in growth experienced when exposed to singular stresses. 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