Upol Ehsan
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🤔When an algorithm causes harm, is discontinuing it enough to address its harms?
💡Our
#FAccT2022
paper introduces the concept of the _The Algorithmic Imprint_ to show how algorithmic harms can persist long after it’s discontinued
📜
A tweetorial👇
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Is hallucination in LLMs inevitable even with an idealized model architecture and perfect training data?
This work argues YES and offers a formal proof.
Let's dig in ⤵
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A key sign of how broken CS/AI/ML
#PhD
programs is when there is an *unspoken* requirement that if you want to be competitive, you need to published already.
I mentor at least PhD applicants esp from the Global South/Majority World.
One super talented applicant asked me:
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🎉 Super excited to spend the summer at
@MSFTResearch
working w/ the amazing
@haldaume3
&
@QVeraLiao
.
I'll be at the FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, & Ethics) group tackling challenging Human-Centered Explainable AI (
#HCXAI
) problems!
#AI
#HCI
#XAI
@PhDVoice
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We ran the study in 2018.
Results were fascinating.
Wrote the paper in 2019.
Then peer review started sh*tting on it.
More times than I care to count.
Testament to the quality that a study from 2018 in XAI gets accepted to
#CHI2024
.
Good science has a long shelf life.
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CS Theory prof during an on-site interview: so Upol, why do you think HCI is part of CS?
Me: I'd argue you cannot have CS without HCI
Him: How?
Me: Name one computing system in this planet or even in space that works in a vacuum without human interactions
Him: (ponders for a few
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When I applied to PhD programs, I wish I knew the "person over topic" principle.
That is, given a chance to work with a generous, kind, and supportive advisor, work with them even if there isn't a "perfect" topic match.
Topics can be changed. Personality traits, not so much.
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One thing I wish I knew the day I started my PhD in CS/AI:
Reading about the history of technology often leads to novel ideas about the future.
Ignorance of the history often leads to sloppy research.
Starting point? Read Science & Technology Studies (STS) literature.
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@AcademicChatter
Getting a quick win is more important than getting a big win. E.g., a third author paper relatively quicker is better than waiting years to get your first first-author. Having a win sooner than later builds credibility w/ others. You leverage that to move to better things.
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Foolproof icebreaker at academic conferences:
What's your recent work I should read or cite?
I have used it for 9 years. Never failed. People love talking about their work. This makes the conversation about them (not you) and creates space for a deep dive.
#CHI2024
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🤯 Every Explainable AI (XAI) system has a silent killer
⚡️ It’s called the sociotechnical gap
🧐 How do you detect & diagnose it?
🔥 Our
#CSCW2023
paper “Charting the Sociotechnical Gap in XAI” gives you a framework to do it
📰
A Tweetorial ⤵️
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🚨 New pre-print alert! 🚨
Excited to share “The Who in Explainable AI: How AI Background Shapes Perceptions of AI Explanations”
w/ the amazing team:
@samirpassi
,
@QVeraLiao
,Larry Chan,Ethan Lee,
@michael_muller
,
@mark_riedl
🔗
💡Findings at a glance...
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With
#emotionalIntelligence
becoming critical, it's time our
#computers
are not tone-deaf to our emotions.
#AffectiveComputing
is step 0.
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I love CHI.
I love Eid.
Just don't love it when the two coincide.
For three straight years.
Especially when Eid moves 10-12 days every year.
Imagine traveling on Xmas day to catch CHI. Many observing Eid just had to do that today.
#chi2023
#EidMubarak
#CHImubarak
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After reading
#chi2023
reviews, I'm reminded that
- this is a marathon, not a sprint.
- luck matters: landing on the right 1AC matters more than we'd like to admit
- death by subcommittee is real
- academic peer-reviewing has high entropy
#AcademicTwitter
#phdvoice
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Rumors are true! I am on the job market 🚀
As a first-gen PhD, this is simultaneously daunting & exciting 💯
🎯 Top consideration: finding an academic home that values my flavor of XAI and RAI with supportive colleagues.
💌 Pls repost & help me reach beyond the filter bubble
Did you know that Upol Ehsan
@UpolEhsan
is on the faculty job market? He's an amazing researcher in Explainable AI (XAI) and Responsible AI (RAI). You want to hire him.
Keep an eye out for his application materials, or reach out if you don't see it.
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The goal of
#ComputerScience
should be a society where
#coding
is no longer a required skill to program. Everyone should enjoy the joy.
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Thrilled to share that my
#CHI2023
paper has not been brutally accepted & that we're submitting it elsewhere🔥✌️👑🥳
CHI's loss will be some other conference's gain soon 🥲
Kudos to everyone playing the reviewer roulette 🫡
Congrats to those whose tributes were accepted! 🏆
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🎉NIST just announced the launch of ARIA, a new program to advance sociotechnical evaluation of AI risks.
Here are some reflections: ⤵️
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May future generations of CS scholars never have to justify that HCI is CS work.
May they never have to justify why qualitative work can be rigorous. If they do, may the burden be symmetric on the quant scholars.
I will do my bit in this group project. Hope others will join.
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As I finalize
#chi2023
reviews, I'm trying to embody what my mentors taught me
- was I kind & constructive (not an a-hole) in my rigorous feedback?
- did I fulfill my job to be "selective" not "rejective"?
- have I given actionable feedback to make the paper better?
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I SAID YES 💍💍💍💍🥰 to way too many CHI review requests. Now I'm regretting that life decision.
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"Isn't the PhD supposed to be the training to learn how to publish & be a good scientist?"
I wish I had a better answer than the one I gave her.
#academia
#academicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
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About to embark on the first of N(>=6) on site job talk visits!
Wish me good luck and good health.
Here's to productive discussions & building new relationships.
No matter how this search ends, I know I'll be better off for it.
Best of luck to everyone on this journey!
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CHI reviewers have been CHI-nd to us😉
🎯Our paper "Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems" has been accepted to
#CHI2021
🥳🎉🍾
Extremely grateful to my amazing collaborators
@QVeraLiao
,
@michael_muller
,
@mark_riedl
,
@gratefulspam
.
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I asked
#ChatGPT
to summarize a paper.
It's insane how good the hallucination is.
Sadly it's not correct.
No, these two authors didn't write that paper nor was it published at
@FAccTConference
.
I know because it's one of my papers 😅
#GenerativeAI
#LLM
#ModelHallucinations
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🎉Delighted to share that the Human-centered Explainable AI (HCXAI) workshop will return to
#CHI2022
!
💡Fully virtual. More details later!
🎊Congrats to the amazing org team:
@philwintersberg
,
@QVeraLiao
,
@watkins_welcome
,
@CarinaManger
@haldaume3
,
@AndreasRiener
,
@mark_riedl
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I'm really enjoying reviewing in-depth 20+ page papers at
#chi2023
. Without a strict page limit, some of the qualitative work gets the required legroom to take the analysis to a depth I haven't seen before. Moreover the paper feels more self contained than part of a trilogy 😅
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Pro-tips reviewing tips from my mentors that you can't find in an official guide (relevant for
#CHI2024
reviews):
1) Use "paper-first" language. We evaluate *this version* of the paper, not the authors. E.g., opt for "the paper does not address X" vs "authors did not do X".
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#corporate
#accountability
is as rare as
#peace
in the world today.
#consumers
are powerless with gag clauses built into the system.
#Resist
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After five back-to-back paper rejections, finally an acceptance, a strong one at that!
This Reviewer's comment made my day. They didn't have to say it, but they did.
Kindness, indeed, is radical.
Today is a good day; cherishing it.
#AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
@OpenAcademics
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🎉Status update: accepted at
#CHI2024
While the process was demoralizing at times, the friendship with my co-authors forged through the trenches was worth the struggle.
Learn the surprising ways in which people with (or without) an AI background interpret AI explanations⤵️
🚨 New pre-print alert! 🚨
Excited to share “The Who in Explainable AI: How AI Background Shapes Perceptions of AI Explanations”
w/ the amazing team:
@samirpassi
,
@QVeraLiao
,Larry Chan,Ethan Lee,
@michael_muller
,
@mark_riedl
🔗
💡Findings at a glance...
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Toxicity was a major problem for GPT-3. If you've used ChatGPT, you may have noticed that it's relatively decent at avoiding toxicity. Is it because of some magical AI trick?
Not really. So what was it? 👇
#ChatGPT
#AI
#ghostwork
#ResponsibleAI
#ML
#OpenAIChatGPT
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🎯Care about Explainable
#AI
(
#XAI
) & Responsible AI?
🎁Want to join a *PAID* interview study with experts from
@MSFTResearch
&
@gtcomputing
to explore new ways to make AI systems explainable & increase user empowerment?
Sign-up:
Please RT & share!
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🎉 Excited to be the invited guest at
@HarvardHci
for their "Tea with Interesting People" series on Nov 8
🌟Eager to discuss two topics close to my heart:
(1) Human-centered Explainable AI
(2) Algorithmic (In)justice
What excites me most is the innovative format where...
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Finally, our time has come
#academics
. We are in vogue. No makeup required, all natural.
@PhDVoice
@OpenAcademics
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#Technology
is not the solution; rather, it's an enabler to assist people with
#autism
.
#AutismTech
#Nonverbal
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Importance of
#culture
in
#nonverbal
communication, esp during
#business
negotiations.
#HBR
#affectiveComputing
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Excited to announce that our workshop on "Operationalizing Human-centered Perspectives in Explainable AI" has been accepted at
#CHI2021
.
Organizing w/
@mark_riedl
,
@philwintersberg
,
@QVeraLiao
, Martina Mara, Marc Streit,
@SandraWachter5
,
@AndreasRiener
#HCI
#AI
#Design
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PhD admits: got a campus visit coming up? Or a chance to talk to current PhD students? Here's a hack that I wish I knew when I started:
Try to get a sense of how the program treats the students who are struggling. The programs will advertise their superstars, but...
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Other scientists: this is a really complex concept, how are you going to explain this to your study participants?
Me (explaining the concept at the study): have you seen this meme?
Participant: Say no more.
@PhDVoice
@AcademicChatter
@OpenAcademics
@r2mustbestopped
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Implications for algorithm deployers:
🎯Critically ask: does the problem really *need* an algorithmic intervention?
💯Despite being made out of “soft”ware, algorithms can leave hard imprints on society
💡That is, there’s no simple “undo” button for algorithmic deployments
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Probably the most well-articulated thread on the
#PodSaveJon
issue.
After four years of reading peer reviewed research to try to get a handle on facts instead of propaganda, I really have too much to say about the
#PodSaveJon
situation for a single thread.
So, I want to talk about dads. 🧵
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Almost all researchers have to deal with the two evil twins called procrastination and perfectionism.
@PhDVoice
#AcademicChatter
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🎁 This episode of the paper drop covers my favorite part-- the humans behind the work.
💡 Open any paper, what's right after the title? The authors.
🤔 Isn't it odd that we seldom talk about them in paper explainers?
🔥 Time to change that. I'll start
#academicTwitter
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Academics: liked reading a paper?
Email the author(s). Thank them. Takes <2 mins and makes someone else's day while making you feel you did something good.
I can attest both as a receiver and sender.
We often only take time to criticize.
We should also do it to appreciate.
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The most helpful
#writing
advice I ever got was:
- The more complex the thought, the simpler the sentence should be.
- One thought/idea, one sentence.
It came from a Pulitzer Prize winner.
#AcademicChatter
@PhDVoice
#writingtips
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🚨 Thrilled to be a co-editor of a Special Issue on Human-centered Explainable AI (
#HCXAI
) at ACM TiiS.
🎯 It’s on making XAI more inclusive, actionable, & responsible.
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 21, 2022
🔗
Please RT🔊!
🤔 What’re we looking for?👇
(1/4)
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Unpopular opinion:
The *first* thing a new PhD student can do to is to become a *second* author of a paper ASAP, esp if you don't have prior pub experience.
This approach can produce that vital early win, understand the unwritten rules of the game, & learn *how* to collaborate
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🎉 Excited to give a talk on the Algorithmic Imprint at
@google
Research's Expanding Responsible AI Speaker Series!
Thanks for inviting me Andrew Smart & the Impact Lab!
w/
@mmadaio
@mark_riedl
@undersequoias
@gtcomputing
@ICatGT
@mlatgt
@datasociety
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🎉 Thrilled to give a talk at the
@UniofOxford
's Responsible Technology Institute on "The Algorithmic Imprint"
🎯 Join us for a deep dive on how algorithmic harms can persist even after it’s destroyed.
🗓️ 3pm UK, Oct 13, 2022
🎟️
@datasociety
@mlatgt
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If I could care less about one thing, it'd be the status quo.
#disruptiveinnovation
#innovation
#startup
#Leadership
#challengeYoSelf
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I did something weird for
#chi2024
.
I maximized attending non-LLM talks.
I thought I'd regret this, but I had a great time.
But this was harder than expected given the LLM-fication of HCI these days.
Don't get me wrong: HCI of LLMs is crucial to make LLMs usable.
But not every
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While writing a paper, I was getting frustrated because I couldn't find the right words to capture a complex thought.
I reminded myself that it's okay to struggle finding words in your 4th language.
I know there are others like me. We need to be kind to ourselves
@PhDVoice
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Started my
#CHI2024
talk by taking a group selfie with the audience.
Thoughtful audience questions + amazing session chair (
@Jay4w
) are the best gifts one can expect from conf talks.
Care about Explainable AI?
Want to learn about how people with and without an AI background interpret AI explanations? Curious about a new type of harmful effect in XAI?
Where : 313B
When: 12-12:15 pm
You'll get exclusive access to behind the scene details on how this
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Reviewer: this paper is a flaming piece of garbage.
Authors during rebuttal: we thank the reviewer for their insightful comment
@PhDVoice
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#ShitAcademicsSay
@OpenAcademics
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🎉Super excited to welcome & host
@QVeraLiao
at Georgia Tech for her talk today on
#HCXAI
, my favorite topic🔥
🎁 She is a cherished & generous mentor of mine and such a joy to collaborate with!
GT peeps, come to the talk & give Vera a Yellow Jackets welcome!
@gvucenter
@ICatGT
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Using the vulnerable, underpaid, overworked RAs as human shields during a pandemic is a reflection of the school's character. The world is watching. Good luck on recruiting. Any deaths will be on your hands. I hope the fees and profits are worth it.
Georgia Tech is using RAs to deliver meals to quarantining students.
Underpaid and overworked RAs are on the front lines of Georgia Tech’s covid response.
GT is conscripting students to fight the outbreak which GT is causing.
#JacketsProtectJackets
#JacketsInfectJackets
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As I CALMly read the
#book
with great pleasure. Thanks
@dr_morton
for sending me the book! Great read!
http://t.co/ln611x30gu
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🌟My summer highlight at
@MSFTResearch
has been working w/ the amazing
@QVeraLiao
,
@haldaume3
, &
@samirpassi
🔥 From difficult conceptual transfers to 40+ interviews, we tackled really hard topics in
#XAI
& had a hell of a good time doing it!
As a researcher...
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We went from
"this paper looks like it's written by ChatGPT"
to
"this REVIEW looks like ChatGPT wrote it"
almost overnight 😅
#chi2024
#AcademicTwitter
@AcademicChatter
@AcademicsSay
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I'm starting to see a trend of people using "radical candor" as a disguise for being a "total jerk".
Friendly reminder: radical candor goes hand in hand w/ radical (not ruinous) kindness. Without the kindness, you've haven't created the space for effective candor.
#leadership
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Hey
#CHI2024
folks, if you are looking for a *free* transcript generating platform that works really well (way better + faster than YouTube), try Riverside.
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🎉 Excited to give a talk on the Algorithmic Imprint at
@IBMResearch
's Human-centered AI Speaker Series!
💌 Thanks for inviting me
@heloisacsp
,
@wernergeyer
, &
@gratefulspam
!
w/
@mark_riedl
@undersequoias
@gtcomputing
@ICatGT
@mlatgt
@datasociety
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⚡️ Submit your best work & join us at the Human-centered Explainable AI (
#HCXAI
) workshop at
#CHI2022
!
🎯 Deadline: Feb 22, 2022
💡 Deets:
w/
@philwintersberg
,
@QVeraLiao
,
@watkins_welcome
,
@CarinaManger
,
@haldaume3
,
@AndreasRiener
,
@mark_riedl
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#AI
#XAI
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👋Hi!
Instead of a TL;DR thread, switching it up with an “author’s cut” on
#CHI2021
paper "Expanding Explainability: Towards Social Transparency in AI systems" w/
@mark_riedl
,
@QVeraLiao
,
@michael_muller
,
@gratefulspam
.
Paper➡️
A commentary thread.
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We academics need to chill.
Stop policing folks why they didn't write "conditionally" when sharing
#chi2024
good news on social.
This is a subtle academic toxic trait.
Partake in others' joy. Your joy will increase.
Help with others' pain. The collective pain decreases.
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Haven't seen family in 2+ years. About to embark on the first international trip in the pandemic. If there's a time for the vaccine booster to work, that'd be now.
#travel
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Unpopular Opinion:
Almost all academic papers do a decent job of *what* they found, many do pretty well to describe *how* they did it, very few do a stellar job of *why* they are doing it and *why* the community needs it.
@PhDVoice
@OpenAcademics
#AcademicTwitter
#research
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📢BREAKING: You can attend the *hybrid* Human-centered Explainable AI (
#HCXAI
) workshop without an accepted paper!
💡Spots are extremely limited so fill this out ASAP:
Why are we opening things up?
💡Over the last 4 years, practitioners & policymakers
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Care about Explainable AI?
Want to learn about how people with and without an AI background interpret AI explanations? Curious about a new type of harmful effect in XAI?
Where : 313B
When: 12-12:15 pm
You'll get exclusive access to behind the scene details on how this
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What are the latest and best papers for Algorithmic Justice/Fairness/Bias?
Need your help to curate a reading list for (early) PhD students. Bonus points if papers have non-Western perspectives.
Please help amplify this for well-rounded input
#AcademicTwitter
#Ethics
#AI
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Exciting updates on the Human-centered Explainable
#AI
workshop at
#CHI2021
:
💪 76 registrants from 14+ countries-- academia, industry, & governance 🔥🔥
🎯 9 live and 14 recorded presentations
w/
@mark_riedl
,
@QVeraLiao
,
@philwintersberg
,
@martinamara
,
@AndreasRiener
,
@marc_streit
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Rethinking who controls AI: How can we shift from a monopolized AI landscape to a decentralized, community-driven model? This (spicy) policy brief from Joana Varon,
@schock
, and Timnit Gebru addresses this question and offers a path forward. My reflections and takeaways:
🔍
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@thesmitdesai
I often lament that we, as a community, have lost sight of the fact that reading is also active research. Reading is doing and building-- it's doing research & building your knowledge base.
Sorry to hear about this-- reviewing that must not have been fun.
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In academia, brilliance is often a given, but kindness is not.
My hack has been to seek out kind scholars.
The rest has taken care of itself.
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If your paper didn't get into
#CHI2024
, remember:
> you are not your work
> just bc the *current version* didn't get in doesn't mean the revised version won't next time
> luck plays a role in both accepts + rejects
> all you need is one win. Losses do not count
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What can we do?
1. Universities need to revamp how they teach AI-- focus on sociotechnical elements as much as the technical ones
2. Companies need to recruit multi-disciplinary folks like psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists in their *core* technical teams
[7/n]
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Saying goodbye to your family is hard as is when you leave home.
What makes it harder is saying goodbye to your aging grandparents not knowing if you'll ever see them again.
Only those in the diaspora can truly empathize with this feeling.
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This piece made me think of:
🎯doomers are "all lives mattering" AI harms
🔥 the highly influential doomers are all elites. Why is it that the elites are so bothered by x-risks? Because anything less catastrophic won't effect them. Their fearmongering comes from a selfish place.
NEW: AI experts challenge 'doomer' narrative, including 'extinction risk' claims - thanks to
@sarahooker19
@mark_riedl
@tdietterich
@YJernite
for speaking with me on this.
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Why did we make
#CHI2024
videos up to 15 mins and now are asking folks to create 10 min presentations?
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Reviewing for
#CHI2022
or for any other venue?
Overwhelmed with work and need to decline the request?
When declining, consider adding referrals-- others who you think might be good fits.
You can add their email addresses too.
The overworked AC/editor will be thankful. 🎁
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The exams you offer disproportionately affect students in over 100+ countries, most of which are your ex-colonies. Do international students not matter? Why are they never mentioned, not even in a footnote? Should they just take whatever you give?
#cancelcieexams2021
#ofqual
Today we’ve published the outcomes of our consultation with
@educationgovuk
on plans for awarding qualifications in 2021.
In our latest article, Chief Regulator Simon Lebus talks about how qualifications will be awarded this year.
Read it here
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Washington & Lee tops
#Kiplinger
's best value college list above Princeton and Harvard!
#GeneralsPride
@wlualum
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As my search gains momentum, I'm trying to find joy in the process, not the outcome.
I only control the input, not the output.
But what joy to be supported by people who believe in you!
🫶 to
@tongshuangwu
@profembwall
@kous2v
@VedantNeedMoEdu
@LangTechLara
@SachinPendse
for
Rumors are true! I am on the job market 🚀
As a first-gen PhD, this is simultaneously daunting & exciting 💯
🎯 Top consideration: finding an academic home that values my flavor of XAI and RAI with supportive colleagues.
💌 Pls repost & help me reach beyond the filter bubble
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