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Exciting work by Anna Sokol! The first one is the hardest (😎) Congratulations! 🥳

Oh great, that preprint is now a Nature report🫠 Y'all, this makes no sense. You simply can't compare the carbon emissions of people and objects. An individual’s total carbon footprint estimate can't be attributed to their profession. See my rant here: x.com/SashaMTL/statu…

*Super helpful* insights for setting out the roadmaps of what AI regulation still needs to sufficiently address:

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For years I’ve been interviewing data annotation workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry. For years I’ve heard the same story: the platforms they work for wield total power, leaving them precarious & vulnerable to exploitation. A horrible example of this just happened 1/

Update: This is worse than I thought. Workers in Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa are also reporting that they are being blocked from the website or cannot create an account. It's possible that Scale AI suspended Remotasks far beyond just Kenya.

As part of Notre Dame's exciting new Ethics Initiative, we're seeking candidates for up to two assistant research professors for the ND-IBM Technology Ethics Lab. Find all the details here: apply.interfolio.com/143072. #NDIAS #NotreDame

When #AI support was provided to 140 radiologists, there was marked variability and unpredictability as to its impact on performance nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine Pranav Rajpurkar Feiyang (Kathy) Yu

The AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) 2024 call for papers has been posted. I'm one of the program chairs. Bay Area, October 21-23. Please submit your best work and spread the word. aies-conference.com

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1. Today, 24 competition and consumer protection enforcement agencies issued a statement that makes clear that integrating technologists and technical experts into the policy and enforcement process is of global importance: bit.ly/3x5NlES

🚨Looking for two assistant research professors for the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab. Some of the key topics are AI for Good, AI Governance and Regulation, and the Social, Environmental, and Economic Cost of AI. Reach out if you have any questions! apply.interfolio.com/143072

Agora que já todos reconhecem o embuste do choque fiscal para a classe média, vale a pena ouvir o Alexandre Mergulhao explicar o verdadeiro choque fiscal que aí vem

The first in-person workshop of the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series has started at UC Berkeley w/Karen Hao Lam Thuy Vo The majority of upcoming sessions are online! Sign up here pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

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Thinking for no particular reason about ND’s much-celebrated “Lady of the Lake World Peace Plaza,” just down the hill from where students were arrested. It includes a plaque honoring conscientious objectors.

I've been blown away by the incredible response to the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, our program to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting. Already hundreds of signups & counting. Thank you to Nieman Lab for highlighting our mission & work! 1/ niemanlab.org/2024/05/pulitz…

Another AI Spotlight Series intensive is in the books! 💫Thank you to our wonderful coaches Lam Thuy Vo & Gabriel Geiger & to the excellent journalists who were selected from countries around the world. Next Intensive starts on September 16 -- registrations will open soon!

People have been rewriting history and saying that "everyone has always believed that LLMs alone wouldn't be AGI and that extensive scaffolding around them would be necessary". No, throughout most of 2023 (the "sparks of AGI" era) the mainstream bay area belief was that LLMs were