Excited to head to Copenhagen next week for #DIS2024! I'm part of the organizing team for the workshop "Making Trouble: Techniques for Queering AI and Data Systems." If you'll also be there and want to grab coffee or lunch, get in touch! makingtroubledis.cargo.site

📚 From our book series with Berghahn Books Ethnographies of Deservingness by Jelena Tošić & Andreas Streinzer Reviewed as "a major contribution to social scientific understandings of inequality through its focus on categorisations of ‘deservingness" buff.ly/45flDBP

Check out our SIG's call for proposals which is focused on unsettling academia's silence and complicity. docs.google.com/document/d/11y…

Super thrilled to tell you that our poster Pratyasha "Understanding the Perceptions and Practices of the Machine Learning Professionals in Bangladesh" has been conditionally accepted at ACM CSCW #CSCW2024. This poster is more my authors than it is me.

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Now that #SheikhHasina fled the nation, Bangladeshi students demand a secular, religion-free government. They said, the protest isn't over yet. #Bangladeshstudentprotest

First step to the reformation. Hope youngsters lead it well! Happy Independence Day 2.0, Bangladesh!

Happy Independence Day 🇧🇩 36 July, 2024 / 5 August, 2024. August is the month when the dictator was dethroned #HasinaCriminal #Bangladeshstudentprotest

#Bangladesh young women were central to the student movement, but aren’t often as photographed as their male counterparts who gave frequent interviews & part of government cabinet now. This is particularly true for Nusrat Tabassum, one of the student leaders who was also jailed.

I am looking to hire two Ph.D. students this coming Fall 2025. If you have strong design/system-building skills and are interested in any of the following- -Privacy and security solutions for marginalized and underserved communities -Human-in-the-loop governance for LLMs -Usable

Excited to share my summer research Center for Democracy & Technology😃 I interviewed NLP researchers building automated mod tools in low-resource languages🎙️ Takeaway: Mod is hard but more so for low-resource languages due to colonial biases+systemic inequities affecting mod research pipeline ⬇️

iaseai.org/conference I'm excited to be a program co-chair (along with Dylan HadfieldMenell , Adam Gleave and Elizabeth A. Seger) for the inaugural conference of the international association for safe and ethical AI (6-7 February 2025). Please submit your expression of interest or a talk

All AI systems make mistakes. 🧐 What if users could leverage AI flaws to understand it & take informed actions? 🚀 Our #CSCW2024 paper on Seamful XAI offers a process to foresee, locate, & leverage AI flaws—boosting user understanding & agency. But why should you care?⤵️ 1/n

Presented our poster at #CSCW2024 on Nov 12, find the poster here - dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

I made a notebook with a few notes on Diffusion Models for a "tutorial" in a project-workshop yesterday. Not really an introduction, but I give some insights that I usually don't see elsewhere. Feel free to reuse. 🔗colab.research.google.com/drive/1EyqALXF… (copy from 🦋 where I'm more often)

Excited to share our🔥New #NeurIPS2024 Paper🔥: 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫? The project website (paper, code, demos): agent-trust.camel-ai.org The slides: tinyurl.com/mryyusmm 🌟TLDR: We

This ACM CSCW paper confirms the findings of the recent Nature paper on chrono feeds. Algorithmic feeds lead to more centrist, trustworthy content, but have little impact on user behavior. An independent audit of platforms w/o access to internal data! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Three books highly, highly recommended by Angela Davis at the MLK 2025 lecture at Cornell 1. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (2020) by Rashid Khalidi 2. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (2025) by Peter Beinart 3. The Palestine Laboratory (2023) by Antony Loewenstein