🚨 Our paper was accepted for Conference on Language Modeling! As we face a mental health crisis and lack of access to professional care, many turn to AI as a solution. But how does ethical automated care look like and are models safe enough for patients? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.11852

I’m co-leading a project that studies how AI benchmarks are being used by stakeholders. If you’ve ever used a benchmark (e.g. results from a benchmark to make a decision or ran a benchmark on a model to understand its performance), or decided not to, we’d love to talk to you!

📢 Policy news: The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) just announced plans to work on safety cases for frontier AI systems! aisi.gov.uk/work/safety-ca…

This year at NeurIPS Conference was by far my worst experience with the reviewing process to date. - 1 reviewer suggesting not to follow Neurips citation guidelines & many other unconstructive comments - Reached out to AC to mediate & wrote detailed rebuttals to all reviewers - We're

If you don’t want to read papers, please don’t sign up to be a reviewer 🥲

In case others didn’t know that, either :)

Exactly one year ago, he said yes, and in less than two months I get to marry my favorite human being in the world ❤️ This was our nerdy engagement announcement back then to our CS friends: There was a pull request for two branches. Accepted, no merge conflicts. ❤️

The California Assembly just passed SB1047 with 41-9.

Is this a voluntary or a binding agreement Sam Altman OpenAI? Will any of the details of the agreement be publicly available?

New AI lawsuit filed today: A group of voice actors sued Eleven Labs, accusing the text-to-speech service of training its AI voice models using the actors' audiobook recordings.

That’s brilliant Sara Hooker, congratulations! Can’t wait to read your thesis 🤩

PhDs would be cooler if instead of "Dr", you earned a more personalized title - Janet the Broke, Toby the Anxious, John the Caffeinated, etc.

Couple weeks left to get in your abstracts. We'll also have invited papers from Henry Farrell and Hahrie Han, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Deirdre K. mulligan, Daniel Susskind and others—leading thinkers on politics, economics, and technologies of democracy. V keen for PhDs/ECRs to apply.

OpenAI Google Matt from the IT department Meta Anthropic

this is an absolutely bananas complaint to have about the Vice President of the United States

2/8 Unconscious bias often shapes our perception of what we deem as "good research." When most speaker lineups are dominated by white men, their perspectives become the default standard for judging research quality. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle.