🚨PAPER'S OUT! 🚨Very excited that today we’re releasing a new holistic framework for evaluating the safety of generative AI systems. Big evaluation gaps remain + we suggest steps to close these. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.11986, blog: bit.ly/socialethicalG… (1/n)

If you are building technology and too insecure to acknowledge the reality of limits, guardrails & criticism, then you are likely not actually interested in creating any real value. Beware of those hyper-sensitive to scrutiny - they are likely peddling sandcastles & vaporware.

🚨New paper: The Illusion of Artificial Inclusion (CHI'24) Many are using LLMs to replace humans (researchers and participants) in research and development. We study this practice and present three arguements against LLM use in human subjects work: 1/10🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2401.08572…

With a voice overwhelmed by exhaustion from hunger, Anas Al-Sharif posts a heart-wrenching video about the famine in the northern Gaza Strip. بصوت يغلب عليه الإعياء من الجوع، أنس الشريف ينشر ڤيديو يدمي القلوب عن المجاعة في شمال قطاع غزة. أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif

gen ai people--what are the positive uses? what are the positive uses that justify the massive investments, disruptions, and harms? I'm genuinely curious

It seems like there are just endless bad ideas about how to use "AI". Here are some new ones courtesy of the UK government. ... and a short thread because there is so much awfulness in this one article. /1 ft.com/content/f2ae55…

"One small note on the page says that it “may occasionally produce incorrect, harmful or biased content,” but there’s no way for an average user to know whether what they’re reading is false."

Check out our new paper on Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants, led by Iason Gabriel Arianna Manzini and Geoff Keeling. Chapter 15, Opportunity & Access was cowritten by myself and the magical Renee Shelby.

Our chapter on Access got a nice shoutout by the great _ and Erica R. Brown on CBS news - as well as Dr. Nahema Marchal 's great piece on misinformation cbsnews.com/video/explorin…

Podcast rec: Computer Says Maybe by @alixtrot . The lateston the humans behind AI is stellar - but I thought the same of their previous installment on AI and elections. saysmaybe.com/podcast

📢 Keynotes for the Safety in Conversational AI workshop LREC COLING 2024! 📢 Upcoming talks from Laura Weidinger, Stevie Bergman, and Maurice Jakesch! 🎉🎉 Stay tuned for details 👏 See you in Torino🥪! Laura Weidinger Stevie Bergman @maurice_jks Google DeepMind Bauhaus-Uni Weimar

Time to spotlight our amazing speakers! First, Stevie Bergman (Stevie Bergman) from Google DeepMind will be speaking at 3pm CET. We are so excited to have her join us! Check out our website for the full schedule.

Bobby Allyn man watched a Spike Jonze movie and said "I'm gonna completely miss the lesson from this film and make it real."

So very excited to see our work out in the world! Congratulations John Mellor, Laura Weidinger and team!

Please, we are 129 years old #NoCutsToLibraries

Violent anti-Syrian pogroms have broken out in several cities in Türkiye as crowds stormed onto the streets, damaging Syrian-owned property, including vehicles, shops, and houses, and hunting down Syrian residents throughout the night. At least 474 people were detained so far,

LLM evaluation is a confusing mess. Standardized eval frameworks have helped, but there's a long way to go. I think we should promote evaluation as a specialized activity carried out by impartial third parties who are not also developers. Of course developers will evaluate

📢We're hiring! We are looking for a UK Public Policy Lead to deliver our work influencing law and policy, as part of Ada’s mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society. Apply by 4 September 2024: adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/uk-public-…

It’s a common misconception that PhD students pay tuition. PhD students actually generally have their tuition covered by the university, which in exchange takes everything from them.