Critical reporting as always by Karen Hao. One critical issue, connected with exponential increase in energy use and renewable reliance is how other parts of the economy are pushed back in line to transition and get access to renewables, big tech outbids everyone else.

A holistic approach to designing, managing, and supervising public algorithmic systems. Roel Dobbe @[email protected] emphasizes the importance of considering societal factors in algorithmic decision-making, striving for equitable outcomes. Read his story here: bit.ly/3Zazmq1

Potentially massive decision shaking up the illegitimate, proprietary harmonised EU standards roadshow.

🚨Read this before you use OpenAI for Hiring🚨 Leon Yin Davey Alba and I ran thousands of resume screening tests with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and found that the tech will racially discriminate applicants based only on their name. Serious implications. 🧵 1/10 bloom.bg/3It4cE4

SCOOP: National Institute of Standards and Technology is facing an internal crisis as staff members and scientists have threatened to resign over the anticipated appointment of Paul Christiano to a crucial position at the agency's newly-formed US AI Safety Institute, sources say. venturebeat.com/ai/nist-staffe…

Our stressed-out power grids can’t handle the AI revolution and tech companies are deliberately hiding both their bidding and their resource use. Time for standards and transparency to avoid a true crisis and ensure accountability ↘️ on.ft.com/3wSjuzJ

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.

In Rio de Janeiro voor #FAccT2024. Excited to see old friends and make new ones!

Finally some answers to the mystery that is Common Crawl - what is it ? Why is it? How can it be curated? What does it do to LLMs? My god this looks useful facctconference.org/static/papers2…

📣FAccT community: 🚨 We are convening an Emergency Meeting for Palestine to discus and organize against our field's complicity in ongoing apartheid and genocide. 🇵🇸 Tomorrow, June 5 at 12:50pm in Grego Room + Zoom, RSVP here: bit.ly/FAccT-Palestine

I was listening to the latest Dwarkesh Patel with Leopold Aschenbrenner and I'm just kind of shocking how many times I hear the same take that is an extrapolation of trend lines guaranteeing us "AGI" by making models bigger. Honestly this feels like the prominent intelligence explosion

Learning from safety engineering, we delve into frameworks, practices, and organizational culture to tackle the challenges of identifying and addressing new harms from ML systems. The Speaker Shalaleh Rismani, AJung Moon and Roel Dobbe are talking about it. #FAcct2024

This talk will also be streamed. If you want to tune in, please check the link. Thursday, 13th of June 2024 2pm CET edu.nl/ja4t3

With the cover all set, I’m delighted to announce my upcoming #book😊 In #Algorithmic Rule by Law, I argue that the uncritical use of algorithmic regulation in public services can erode the rule of law & hurt democracy. Available this Autumn (with CUP): cambridge.org/core/books/alg…

Want to know more about AI & climate? Join the next TU Delft AI Lunch on the unprecedented environmental impacts of AI: a transdisciplinary discussion with Benedetta Brevini, Olya Kudina, @junesallou and Roel Dobbe @[email protected] on July 2nd. Register via: tudelft.nl/en/events/2024…

🚨 Twitter heeft net stiekem een standaardinstelling geactiveerd om al jouw berichten te ‘mogen’ gebruiken om hun AI-model te trainen. Ze hebben dit nooit aangekondigd of om toestemming gevraagd. Je kunt dit uitschakelen via het web (niet via de app) via een diep weggestopte

Finally, the tort question du jour in real life!!!

NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o Gael Varoquaux 🦋, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160