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Do you like roses *and* research in Computer Science? Consider pursuing a PhD in CS at SCU! 🙃 Find more info on my website: oanaignat.github.io. Apply here: tiny.cc/oana-phd 🌹💻 #AI4All #AIforGood

🎉CVQA is accepted in the NeurIPS as an oral presentation! Amazing work by all collaborators, especially David Romero, Chenyang Lyu 吕晨阳, Haryo, thamar | (MBZUAI) for their hard work on this project Achievement unlocked: my first-ever NeurIPS paper!

Do models personalize results when we ask them to and avoid stereotypes otherwise? No. Well are they at least transparent about it? Also no… ⚠️ If the model can infer your race you might get racially biased recommendations! 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05613 🧵1/8

"The Invisible Minority" – Older Adults 👵👴 Age bias is often overlooked compared to gender or race, yet by 2030, 1 in 6 people will be over 60! Our study at #EMNLP2024 reveals LLMs tend to align with younger values. Let's explore to make AI helpful and harmless for all ages!

Why AI is W.E.I.R.D.(Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic—a concept from psychology) and why it shouldn’t be.🌍🌎🌏 Very proud of our new paper outlining challenges & opportunities in developing AI for everyone, with everyone, by everyone. arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16315

She exposed the truth about AI bias. Google gave her an ultimatum: Retract or leave. She chose integrity. Here's how she exposed AI's biggest problem:

Klarna was the company that went all-on replacing customer support with an AI bot and went on to brag about the cost savings. Now they are reversing course. Easy to see more companies blindly replacing quality customer support with a worse AI implementation will follow...

Tomorrow at #AAAI25 we’ll present our paper “Why AI is W.E.I.R.D.* and why it shouldn’t be”— a position paper on challenges & opportunities in developing AI that works equally well for everyone. 🌍🌎🌏 arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16315 This is the result of a truly global collaboration,

Very proud of my lab’s work to be presented at #NAACL2025, all aligned with this year’s special theme on NLP in a multicultural world 🌎 Come find us throughout the conference!

We present Eeyore—a language model that simulates depression for mental‑health training. It leverages curated real-world conversations, expert-verified psychological profiles, instruction tuning, and preference optimization. Link: github.com/MichiganNLP/Ee… aclanthology.org/2025.findings-…