🎷Excited to present our paper, “Careless Whisper: Speech-to-text Hallucination Harms” at ACM FAccT! 🎷We assess Whisper (OpenAI’s speech recognition tool) for transcribed hallucinations that don’t appear in audio input. Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.08021, thread 👇

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Love to start the week with a note from one of my UVA School of Data Science students letting me know that he got into both Harvard University and Northwestern for his grad work---so proud, this is one of the best parts of being an educator! 🎓

🎙️‼️Super thrilled to announce that Ellen Simpson dr. ellen simpson joins UVA School of Data Science as 1st Sloane Lab postdoc! 🥳 She'll support our work on #AI + #recruiting + expand our collaboration w/ Sarah Lebovitz UVAMcIntire Roshni Raveendhran Darden School at UVA—WELCOME! 🧡datascience.virginia.edu/news/uva-resea…

Come work with me and a group of stellar faculty and postdocs at UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy on all things #tech and #democracy! We're looking for an #AI Project Manager, salary range $75-80k, this is an in-person role. More: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R006…

Local Cville area job🚨join us at the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab

Upping this call for papers: join us in asking WHAT IS SOCIOLOGICAL ABOUT #AI? Longer articles and shorter comments are both welcome! Deadline Jan 15, 2025.

📢 CO-OPTING #AI is BACK! We're starting the Fall w/ an exciting panel about #MATH: tune in on 9/17, 4pm ET, to hear stellar thinkers Aubrey Clayton, Alma Steingart & Theodore Porter discuss how statistics became key for describing our world. Free sign-up: karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-opti…

This will be an EXTREMELY intriguing conversation featuring three stellar thinkers who have all taken a hard look at math's dominance in describing (and governing) our social world. Come join us! karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-opti…

Honored and grateful to have been appointed as Affiliate Faculty with the University of Virginia's Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE) research initiative -- a great start to the semester! 🤓

Love to discuss #stats? Missing your #mathlete days? Dreaming about #matrixalgebra? Tune into UVA Dr. Mona Sloane's podcast on September 17th 4PM ET to listen to a riveting discussion among #statisticians. #math

This is happening TOMORROW! Come join us for an exciting conversation about #math and #AI! karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-opti…

Watch a panel of experts scrutinize AI's ontological infrastructure – math—and examine how statistics became key for describing the social world. This virtual event on September 17th is a new discussion in the series “Co-Opting AI." Dr. Mona Sloane karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/co-opti…

I am thrilled to announce Book Tour Part II for #TheLastHumanJob, taking the message to Silicon Valley/Forest/Prairie/Alley, etc. Come join us! Together we can shine a light on what's worth preserving about human connection Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Marianne Cooper Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) Dr. Mona Sloane

Absolutely thrilled that this is out -- huge congrats to Dr. Gallon Kim Gallon on this extremely insightful piece. It was so much fun to talk about all these thorny issues. Educators: put this on your Spring syllabus!

📢 If you missed last week's Co-Opting #AI: #Math even with Ted Porter, Aubrey Clayton and Alma Steingart, not to worry, you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=yPCO47…

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