Savannah Thais 👩🏼‍💻

Just wrapped teaching my first semester of AI Ethics! My first full semester course and entirely designed from scratch…I’ll have many more thoughts to share but for now very thankful to my students for their engagement and willingness to think across disciplines 1/

@sarahookr We were just talking about similar things in the RegML workshop today. Definitely interested!

I would love to do a deep study into why nuclear safety or airline safety is not equivalent in safety protocols or complexity to the many ways deep neural networks can be used. Historians/computer scientists — if interesting to you, let me know. We will kick off next year.

Also can’t wait for @willie_agnew co-design workshop!

I wish I had been in this room (or actually out as queer) in grad school. This space is an absolute treasure 💕

Happy to be in my favorite space at NeurIPS! To me, AI is political and my queerness is political and @QueerinAI holds space for me to embrace that rather than trying to suppress it. Beautiful discussions about community building in research and the world.

Super excited for this panel discussion on one of my favorite topics: the role of world models in building AI (especially AI for science)!

I’m heading to Vancouver for NeurIPS! I’ll be speaking at the ML4PS workshop, the Regulatable ML workshop, and the Symmetry and Geometry workshop! Will share more details but my favorite part is always chatting with folks so please hmu if you’d like to grab coffee or a drink!

@sarahookr @NeurIPSConf Looking forward to it :)

Who will be at @NeurIPSConf 2024? Looking forward to being in Vancouver in a week and catching up with everyone.

@Abebab Congratulations!! I can’t wait to see the excellent work to come

yes! thrilled this is finally out in the world

@BlancheMinerva @Columbia @mozilla Ooh this looks awesome! Who from Columbia are you collaborating with?

Excited to be in San Francisco discussing a vision for AI Safety that isn't defined by corporate expedience with @columbia @mozilla and many open source and non-profit leaders. I think the swag says it all.

ide.mit.edu/events/the-bus… Sidenote, if you're around MIT I'd love to chat! 2/2

Next up, this afternoon I'll be on a panel "AI for All: Advancing Responsibility, Fairness, & Queer Representation in Technology" at @Hunter_College , hosted by my friend/colleague Raj Korpan. Such an important topic as building truly useful & trustworthy AI takes everyone!

(including Secretary @HillaryClinton and Governor @KathyHochul!). eventbrite.com/e/conference-o…

actionable cybersecurity recommendations. Much of this work is led by my amazing students Selena Ding and Keri Yu. In addition to presenting our research, I'm very excited to discuss the way AI is reshaping the cyber threat landscape with so many public policy experts 2/

I'm speaking at three very exciting events this week! First up today, the Columbia and New York State Conference on Cyber Regulation and Harmonization at Columbia | SIPA. I'll be presenting our research using customized AI models to identify, extract, and categorize 1/

I’m at my first @AIESConf! Presenting my paper on AI Hype tonight. Hit me up if you’re around!

AI is unpredictable. Can physics make it trustworthy? Read our Q&A with @DataSciColumbia ’s Savannah Thais: bit.ly/3U9t0Ht #AI #DataForGood #Ethics

I'm thankful to have been working and learning in this rich interdisciplinary space for nearly a decade now and so excited to see how in continues to grow with increased education opportunities and industrial and governmental investment 7/7

While of course trustworthy AI is ultimately a sociotechnical problem and science cannot get us all the way there, I fundamentally believe that science has a critical role to play. 6/

Leaning into the Nobel Prize excitement, I'm very excited to share my new piece in Nature Reviews Physics @NatRevPhys exploring how physics data and approaches can help us develop more trustworthy AI (read for free here!) rdcu.be/dWfr3 1/