Business Analytics (BA) Seminar: Rebekah Brita Baglini, AU

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Info about event

Time

Wednesday 6 November 2024,  at 13:00 - 14:00

Location

Fuglesangs Allé 4, Building 2632(L), Room 242

Speaker: Rebekah Brita Baglini, AU

Title: Talking about risk: Computational approaches to modeling risk discourse at scale

Abstract: The early 2020s have been defined by the concurrent global crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and intensifying events related to climate change, raising new questions about how we collectively reason and communicate about risk.  Risk narratives---linguistic reports linking causal factors to undesired outcomes---are a window into how humans reason causally and counterfactually, a capacity widely held to be the hallmark of human intelligence, and a key topic in research on science and crisis communication, mis/dis-information, and public trust and solidarity. Presently, risk narratives can only be studied qualitatively or indirectly, which imposes limits on the generalizability and scalability of research findings. In this talk, I will present work-in-progress which aims to address this problem, by leveraging the theoretical framework of Structural Causal Models (SCMs) and state-of-the-art AI large language models (LLMs) to implement a computationally-assisted approach to modeling communication about risk and causality at the scale of collective discourse.

Website: https://cc.au.dk/en/about-the-school/staff/show/person/rbkh@cc.au.dk

Host: Jesper Wulff


Organisers: Surabhi Verma and Hartanto Wong