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Announcements for #FAccT2026! 📣
#FAccT2026 will be on June 27-30 at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montréal!
Keep reading for important information about submitting papers! ⬇️
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I finally had the chance to read Karen Hao's Empire of AI and it is excellent! From my understanding, these honest corrections don't detract from, but rather emphasise, the severe natural resource drain these data centres demand.
Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."
Watch the AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote from the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. We discussed the progress different countries are making, key challenges, and what is needed to build responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI ecosystems across the continent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWA...
Happening now - Exhibit Hall C,D,E poster #404
I heard there will be good vibes at this poster 🤙
I'm beyond thrilled to give a keynote at the 20th WiML workshop! 😍 I've given opening remarks before, but this is my first RESEARCH talk at WiML. It's a dream. Join us! I'll talk about supporting appropriate reliance, human agency, & critical thought with GenAI.
sites.google.com/wimlworkshop...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Something that comes to mind is the work of RobotsMali to create short stories for children set in Malian culture and contexts. There might be some inspiration in their methods? robotsmali.org/vers-une-lit...
hive-mind, know of any research/academic work that has detailed the various ways social media/large platforms have made audits/critical investigation of these platforms practically impossible. exuberant API fees, access only to partial data even when you can pay fee, retaliation again auditors, etc
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉
Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
It's sad that AI conference reviewers use "incremental" as reason to reject a paper -- e.g., "the contribution of this paper is incremental; reject". Where do they think most progress in science comes from, and what eventually fuels big discoveries?
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
every large public institution (esp, universities & schools) reliant on big tech infrastructure should take note as the "bursting of the AI bubble" will bring these sectors down with it
do you now see how the likes of Oxford signing contracts with OpenAI was a grave mistake
what a great honour to receive the 25th Irish Tatler Women of the Year Award in the category of Innovation. the optimist in me thinks this marks a turn for recognition of the importance of critical work and accountability in AI
www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...
I'm on the job market looking for CS/ischool faculty and related positions! I'm broadly interested in doing research with policymakers and communities impacted by AI to inform and develop mitigations to harms and risks. If you've included any of my work in syllabi or policy docs please let me know!
We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/
Pitch your AI startup at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! The application deadline is just a month away on October 15th.
Learn more and apply now: neurips.cc/Conferences/...
Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)
Fingers crossed you made /
will make the deadline! 🤞
Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below!
youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0
want to help shape the future of AI in latin america? then don't miss out on @lasalaai.bsky.social next march!
the past instances of this event have been truly fantastic, and i'm super pumped for the next one next year. don't miss out and apply today!
hope to see you in quito!! ♥️🇪🇨
Sinners was fun. I enjoyed that film. Good stuff sure.
We have a really strong position paper that has been rejected multiple times from arxiv, both CS.AI and CS.CY, because our "submission does not contain sufficient original or substantive scholarly research and is not of interest to arXiv." Appealing has not helped. Any ideas of what we can do?
Honored to be named in TimeAI 100 list, along w/my awesome Google colleagues Josh Woodward & Hartmut Neven & many awesome people.
My recognition is due to collaboration with many great colleagues, so thank you to everyone I've been fortunate to work with over many years! 🙏
time.com/collections/...
We gathered in Kigali 🌍 for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. Nearly 3,000 applied, 1,294 joined in person, 400 virtually. 6 days of AI research, debate, teaching & learning. From 300 in 2017 → to a pan-African Baobab tree. 🌳 #DLI2025 @DeepIndaba 1/
An absolute 🔥🔥panel today at the Centring Data in African AI workshop at #DLI2025.
Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.
“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.
⚡️⚡️AI Ethics
💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding
💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.