Invited talk by Pardis Emami-Naeini on October 30!

Pardis Emami-Naeini (Duke University) will give an invited talk at the DAMS lab meeting on Friday, October 30, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. The talk is open to all — please get in touch if you would like to attend.

Enhancing Digital Safety for People with People

Privacy and security risks are not merely the result of technical flaws, but of deeper failures that have effectively excluded stakeholders from the design process. This exclusion has produced privacy, security, and policy artifacts that fail to address people’s needs, leaving society exposed to consequential risks. As AI technologies become the new “technology,” there is mounting evidence that current digital safety and policy guardrails are insufficient to protect users. These failures are particularly critical in domains such as health and wellness and embodied systems, where risks extend beyond digital harm to affect users’ physical safety and well-being. In this talk, I will discuss how I leverage a highly interdisciplinary, human-centered approach to advance digital safety and AI governance in high-impact AI systems, including conversational AI for mental health and social robots.

About the speaker

Pardis Emami-Naeini is an Assistant Professor at Duke University. For more about her work, visit her homepage.