Join us for a special workshop on Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating Research into Policy for AI Oversight.
Keynotes by California State Senator Jerry McNerney and Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
Thursday, 4/30, 1–5:30 p.m. Registration required.
simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...
I miss fafblog
"AI experts who have been sounding the alarm within the tech community about the harms of building AI without guardrails see the public’s reaction as an escalation of the mistrust toward AI that has been simmering for years."
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
getting reviews like "shallow engagement with AI ... won't policymakers just be trying to replace the whole system with AI anyway. what's the point about technical modeling" is a little frustrating.
The broader tech backlash in the light of the attack on Sam Altman's house and why we need more guardrails for AI, by @lorenaoneil.com. With quotes from @alondra.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social and me, among others.
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Uh no. Thankfully I've forgotten that incident.
You get express passage through the airport
Messaging Aditya right now
I was today years old when a student told me, "Oh I'm going old school and using google scholar for a lit search"
don't try to come to SLC. you have been warned
Just for the record, and because I'm loyal, the correct answer is the allosauras fragilis, an official state fossil of Utah, which you can see a spectacular skeleton of in the Salt Lake City airport.
nhmu.utah.edu/allosaurus-f...
2nd choice: Utahraptor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utahrap...
What would it look like for hiring + promotion/tenure to explicitly value (and signal that they value) components of academic work that are NOT publishing papers?
We welcome applicants who engage in public scholarship
who create software and artifacts
who have strong editorial experience
... etc.
CDT’s Jake Laperruque: “The attitude we’re seeing from FISA 702’s boosters right now is, ‘If we can pretend it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’... But the problems are there. They are very real, and in some ways, they are worse than ever.”
So sad to hear that Michael Rabin passed away. One of the most brilliant computer scientists ever, and a very caring, thoughtful teacher. I was lucky to be able to take a theory of computation class from him, way back in the day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...
It was hilarious!
Michael Rabin just died. His contributions to theoretical CS are absolutely incredible (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...). The Miller-Rabin primality test was the best method I knew for primality testing all the way upto 2002 when Agrawal, Kayal, and Saxena finally proved that PRIMES is in P.
Screen shot from the article linked in the first post of the thread
Area Man Grossly Misunderstands Tolkien
This is an amazing team and anyone would be fortunate to work with @mkgerchick.bsky.social and folks there.
The Tech Team at ACLU is hiring! We are looking for a Data Scientist with expertise in NLP and AI ethics to work on using language tech to support ACLU's mission. Come help us tackle questions about how AI systems can be carefully applied to support the public interest. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
In case it's not super obvious- you...can't get doordash delivered to anywhere inside the White House fenced off complex, much less the West Wing much less the patio of the Oval gd Office. No need to treat a stunt as something real!
We had to sit through security briefings where they would explain how far away from the WH complex we had to go to pick up our delivery orders.
Advising success means your students bring you videos of otters they have seen.
A doctor costume, honestly, not Jesus…
NEW: We’re joined by 75 organizations in calling on Meta to cancel plans to install facial recognition technology on their “smart” glasses.
This tech would allow anyone who wears the glasses to identify and spy on those around them.
Meta must stop this all-out assault on our privacy and safety.
AI is shaping young people’s transitions from education to work, according to our report with @nuffieldfoundation.org
This first in-depth exploration of AI in career guidance sets out three foundations for appropriate, ethical & effective use.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/navig...
comparing and contrasting the machine learning development pipeline to the genAI development pipeline, it's clear that their affordances are very different, and as a result, policy interventions dependent upon specific technical affordances are incredibly brittle.
Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers whose performances shaped the country’s musical memory and modern cinema, has died. She was 92.
As a former National Academies program director, 12 year State Department negotiator, student of argumentation theory, and graduate alum from a Socratic institution (SJCA):
The format for this event (particularly a NAS online event using Slido) is not structured to support this type of dialogue.