Oh dear, we haven't read this one yet but look forward to doing so...with some trepidation.

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New paper at #FAccT24. We performed a cross-national study on the public's perception of facial analysis AI. Paper: cs.cit.tum.de/fileadmin/w00c…

Incredibly excited to share that we received a Best Paper award for this work!!!! #FAccT24

Wonderful to engage with an excellent community of legal scholars at the eLaw Symposium 2024 at Leiden’s Center for Law and Digital Technology in the Netherlands! Thanks for engaging with my ongoing work “Countering Privacy Nihilism" co-authored with Helen Nissenbaum. More soon

Our ACM FAccT paper is now online📢 With Global South perspectives in AI Ethics, we show how faith blindness in data annotation — to achieve Western, secular values — lead to a context collapse. Rashidujjaman Rifat Ishtiaque Ahmed Future Intelligence Gates Cambridge Trinity Hall

Mental Privacy: A novel criminal offense against technological mind reading ("mind probing") on the basis of biometric data (and with the assistance of AI) .... New paper in the Journal of Law, Innovation and Technology - A thread ....

David is an incredible scholar and a wonderful colleague! Hire him if you get the chance.

Excited that this work is now accepted at #EMNLP2024! We provide first steps towards evaluating whether LLMs are "pluralistically aligned" with disagreeing users on safety-related questions. arxiv.org/abs/2406.06369

Philosophers say that studying philosophy makes people more rigorous, careful thinkers. But is that that true? In a large dataset (N = 122,352 students) Michael Vazquez and I find evidence that it is!🧵

The German government is trying to push through Parliament, at record speed, a "security package" that would increase biometric surveillance at an unprecedented scale. The proposed measures contravene the government’s own coalition and undermine European law and the German

I contributed some thoughts on our privacy for this compelling piece by Shira Ovide in The Washington Post, covering two students using smart glasses, facial rec & LLMs to identify anyone in public #pimeyes 🔗 washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 at Cornell Tech! If you are interested in topics relating to machine learning fairness, algorithmic bias, or evaluation, apply and mention my name in your application: infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions Also, go vote!

We’ve confirmed the #FAccT2025 venue! We’re so excited to welcome you all on June 23-26 to the Athens Conservatoire in the heart of downtown Athens! 🦉🇬🇷🌊🏛️ athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/