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Today at 11am ET! SRI research Lead Nisarg Shah will speak about emerging ideas in using social choice theory to increase fairness in AI decision-making. This virtual event is hosted by Vector Institute. Tune in online; link below.
The new issue of University of Toronto Magazine examines AI's impacts on our lives, and features SRI researchers Roger Grosse & Sheila McIlraith on AI safety, Toryn Klassen on words with new meanings in the age of AI, Karina Vold on how humans can learn from AI, and more. magazine.utoronto.ca/issue/spring-2…
Hosting Kosuke Imai, Harvard, Friday 3 May 2024, noon (EDT), on 'Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation'. All welcome!
Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/84277066292
Signup: forms.gle/sXbEixoa1iJR4Q…
Details: rohanalexander.com/events-tdw.html
Thanks to University of Toronto Magazine for the piece on my current research project.
🤖 Check it out here: “AI Learns Everything It Knows from Humans. Will Humans also Learn from AI?”
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Check out the latest addition to the University of Toronto's downtown campus! • A Global Hub for Safe #AI magazine.utoronto.ca/campus/global-… Schwartz Reisman Institute
SRI Research Lead Beth Coleman and SRI Faculty Affiliate Rahul Krishnan continue their journey through AI as co-hosts of 'What Now? AI,' this time with guests Nick Frosst of cohere and Sanja Fidler of NVIDIA.
The 4th episode just dropped!🎧 uoft.me/wnai4
What kinds of claims can we make to access platform data? We're co-hosting a hybrid event on May 2 with the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society feat. #UofT 's Lisa Austin and David Lie.
Join us in person (Cambridge, MA) or online: uoft.me/arx
💐SRI Faculty Affiliate Wendy Wong @profwhw.bsky.social is named UBC Okanagan researcher of the year for her work on data and human rights!
🔎Read more about Prof. Wong's research: bit.ly/3QhSfFE
📺Watch a recording of her book launch discussion with Anna Su ([email protected]): bit.ly/4d5zVt4
Thanks to Schwartz Reisman Institute for inviting me to present our recent work on the Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants!
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For those who prefer an audio presentation, this should do the job – and please speed me up (1.25 minimum)!😅
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📅 Our annual conference is coming up in 2 weeks! We're covering all things AI + society incl. autonomous weapons, AI and democracy, AI in healthcare, and artificial agents with Ishtiaque Ahmed, Kristina McElheran, Branka Marijan, Bree McEwan, & Huili Chen.
absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com
New conference session announced! Roger Grosse will discuss putting AI risks into “AI Safety Levels,” how to build safety cases in levels, and how new work in training data attribution can help.
Session (May 7, '24): bit.ly/3UuGONk
Registration: bit.ly/3U9b6DT
'Now, Later, and Lasting: 10 Priorities for AI Research, Policy, and Practice,' forthcoming in CACM, with Vincent Conitzer Sheila McIlraith Peter Stone
#AI100 Communications of the ACM Association for Computing Machinery Stanford HAI Partnership on AI White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Carnegie Mellon University University of Toronto CIFAR arxiv.org/abs/2404.04750
SRI researchers beth coleman and Rahul G. Krishnan continue to plumb the depths of AI in their new podcast. This episode: innovation for good. See a snippet below and listen wherever you get your podcasts. ⬇️
“While the technology is capable of many things, the [adoption by industry] is still coming at a slower rate. I don’t think we need to panic; this is happening everywhere all at once.” SRI Faculty Affiliate Kristina McElheran comments on TVO.me's TVO Today | The Agenda. tvo.org/video/is-canad… University of Toronto Scarborough
SRI Associate Director Sheila McIlraith and SRI Faculty Affiliates dianelynnhorton, David Liu, and Steve Coyne are behind an award-winning program to integrate ethics education into computer science. Thanks to U of T Department of Computer Science for the excellent coverage! 🔗uoft.me/aq7
Have you registered yet? Our annual conference, Absolutely Interdisciplinary, returns May 6-8, 2024.
This year's speakers include harper 🤯, Reza Najafi, I. Glenn Cohen, Maaz Gardezi, Gillian Hadfield, Daniel Z Buchman, Peter Loewen, Regina Rini, & more.
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Are you a University of Toronto student passionate about bridging healthcare gaps? We're seeking 4 researchers for a project in collaboration with Gotcare and @QuinteHealh exploring AI-enabled solutions for improving healthcare accessibility in rural communities.
Apply ➡️lnkd.in/gjjxBAyK
Big news! Data from our joint project with Policy, Elections, And Representation Lab on measuring public opinion on AI is featured in the annual Stanford HAI #AIIndex2024 (@indexingai). 'Global Public Opinion on AI' was led by SRI Associate Director Peter Loewen.
Read all about it: uoft.me/ap8
The 2024 Maclean’s Magazine Power List has just dropped, and SRI Chair (and inaugural Director) Gillian Hadfield is named as one of the key people shaping Canada's future right now. macleans.ca/society/the-po…