PALMS is NeurIPS accepted as a spotlight presentation‼️🔦 Thank you*100 to our hard-working reviewers 🙏🏽 Adjustments to come & stoked for the conference and honored to work with Christy Dennison. More social impact 🤝technical systems, shoutout to my humanities degree Brb telling my dad

To credibly identify a virus as capable of causing a pandemic – of inflicting more casualties than any nuclear warhead – is to give thousands the power to wield it as a weapon. Let's not. #PandemicNonproliferation washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Our #PennBioengineering seminar series continues on Oct 21 with Dr. Emma Chory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): "“Phage and Robotics-Assisted Biomolecular Evolution” #bioengineering #research #chemicalengineering #robotics #evolution beblog.seas.upenn.edu/be-seminar-pha…

#NeurIPS2021 Tutorials: Lilian Weng Lilian Weng (Open AI) and Jong Wook Kim Jong Wook Kim 💟 (Open AI), will be giving a NeurIPS tutorial on “Self-supervised learning: Self-prediction and Contrastive learning”. Dec 7, 01:00-05:00 (GMT) neurips.cc/Conferences/20…

Instead of determining whether individual viruses can bite us, most of which would never spill over anyway, let's pour resources into monitoring and excellent PPE that will work against any pandemic - or several at once. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Our first AI alignment paper, focused on simple baselines and investigations: A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment arxiv.org/abs/2112.00861

Come hang out with Christy Dennison and me at #NeurIPS2021 's poster session this Tuesday the 7th from 11:30a.m. - 1 p.m. ET!! We want to hear your thoughts, questions, ideas, you! And do feel free to reach out regardless if we can be handy (PALMS pun🥁)

4) Pandemic prevention often requires data analysis. You can find work as a SWE eg: telisbio.com securedna.org/main-en Or take your valuable programming skills, do life sciences grad study, and have your pick of roles 80000hours.org/problem-profil…

I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip.

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You may have heard that AI is biased because the data it’s trained on is biased. That’s really just the tip of the iceberg. The fairness crisis goes much deeper than that. 🧵 1/8 vox.com/future-perfect…

Loved chatting with the deeply thoughtful Sigal Samuel!! and ofc bestie Christy Dennison It's hard to encompass a complex field in a few words, which is why we must keep asking: for whom is this safe? For *whom* is this fair? And with so much power in tech, silence can truly be violence

In today’s paper: In an effort to curb Lyme disease, scientists hope to release thousands of genetically altered mice on Nantucket, the Boston Holocaust museum begins to take shape, and more. trib.al/Tp5jt5y

DALL-E 2 knows what women really want

I put my whole self into making AI work for the many cultures its affecting and it's really warming to have that recognized in MIT Technology Review 35 under35 alongside this rad group! More cultural value alignment research 👏🏾 technologyreview.com/innovator/iren…

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OpenAI is nothing without its people

I'm super excited to talk with ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪᴇssʟᴇʀ 🛡️ and Jackie Bow tomorrow. They are both super thoughtful about AI and security and can't wait to explore the intersection with them.

🎉 Today marks a major milestone at Semgrep— we’re excited to announce that Semgrep has secured $100M in Series D funding! 🚀 This milestone, led by Menlo Ventures with support from our amazing investors. With this boost, we’re more committed than ever to revolutionizing the

🎉 Huge thanks to James Rundle and The Wall Street Journal for their insightful coverage on our series D funding round and the importance of software security! With this new round of funding, Semgrep will further develop our AI capabilities, expand our sales and marketing presence, and hire more