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On Thursday evening, Penn State s Student Farm Club hosted a panel of alumni who did some form of agriculture-related service after graduation.
The panel, which was called Strengthening the Corps: Advancing food system sustainability through Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and FoodCorps, featured three alumni - one from each service organization. The three panelists discussed their experiences serving with these organizations and how current agriculture students can get involved.
The panel was held over Zoom and was moderated by Meg Mitchell, the programming director of the Student Farm Club.
The three panelists were each given an opportunity to individually answer questions from the moderator before the floor opened for anyone in the audience to ask questions.
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February 24th, 2021
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AI and ML systems have advanced in both sophistication and capability at a staggering rate in recent years. They can now model protein structures based only on the molecule’s amino-acid sequence, create poetry and text on par with human writers even spot specific individuals in a crowd (assuming their complexion is sufficiently light). But for as impressive as these feats of computational prowess are, the field continues to struggle with a number of fundamental moral and ethical issues. A facial recognition system designed to identify terrorists can just as easily be leveraged to monitor peaceful protesters or suppress ethnic minorities, depending on how it is deployed.