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What an awesome way to spend a weekend. 6 hours in uncomfortable conference chairs nerding out on rules to a successful bounty submission. Great group of judges on the generative red team challenge!

After Schumer’s forum, so much of the focus from media & government officials was anchored to the speculations of the wealthy men in the room. So I wrote in @TheAtlantic about another view -- the grounded complexity brought by unions & civil society: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

We've released annotated slides for a talk titled "Evaluating LLMs is a minefield". Current ways of evaluating chatbots/LLMs don't work well, especially for questions about societal impact. There are no quick fixes. More research is needed. w/ @sayashk 🧵cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks…

Ps. I am hiring!!!! jobs.lever.co/bostondynamics…

It’s official! I've joined the Boston Dynamics AI Institute to lead their ethics & society research initiative. I'll keep MIT as an academic home, but I’m thrilled to be building my own team at a cutting-edge robotics research institute. theaiinstitute.com/news/ai-instit…

Registration now open for We Robot 2023 🥰bu.edu/law/engagement…

For this weekend’s paper, I wrote about @techdirt founder @mmasnick who has been blogging about tech for an astounding 26 years and has the ears of lawmakers, activists, journalists, and Mark Zuckerberg. nytimes.com/2023/07/29/tec…

My book comes out in two months(!!!). If you want to read it and haven’t pre-ordered yet, here’s a convenient little link. 🙏 amazon.com/Your-Face-Belo…

So far 77 people completed the #FaccT2023 survey; last year we had 200. There were *numerous times* we consulted the survey results to guide planning; please weigh in if you can. form.typeform.com/to/aL59wmNs?ty…

The second is to try to convince everyone that AI is very, very powerful. So powerful that it could threaten humanity! They want you to think we’ve split the atom again, when in fact they’re using human training data to guess words or pixels or sounds.

The first reason is to focus the public’s attention on a far fetched scenario that doesn’t require much change to their business models. Addressing the immediate impacts of AI on labor, privacy, or the environment is costly. Protecting against AI somehow “waking up” is not.

You may be wondering: why are some of the very people who develop and deploy artificial intelligence sounding the alarm about it's existential threat? Consider two reasons--

📺 This summer, we'll be sharing recordings of our Law & Tech talks online! We're kicking off this series with @geomblog's brilliant talk "Reflections on the AI Bill of Rights, technology policy and the role of the academy" (from April 4, 2023) youtu.be/e-pW6GpsTeA

📢 WE'RE HIRING @mozilla! 📢 Position: fellow in responsible computing FT one-year contract, remote US, $90k/year This is really a special team to work with on so many important issues. Humanities expertise esp welcome. Feel free to share widely! boards.greenhouse.io/mozilla/jobs/5…

📢 I'm thrilled to announce our new @NSF Institute on Trustworthy AI in Law & Society! @trails_ai's premise is: Participation Builds (Appropriate) Trust. 🌐 Details: trails.umd.edu 💼 Postdoc, Director, ...: trails.umd.edu/getinvolved 🗓️ Events: trails.umd.edu/events >

We've been hard at work on the Generative Red Team event we're doing at @defcon for a while and are excited that the @WhiteHouse announced it this morning. Here's more details: aivillage.org/generative%20r…

There’s one existential risk I’m certain LLMs pose and that’s to the credibility of the field of FAccT / Ethical AI if we keep pushing the snake oil narrative about them.

Big announcement from the White House today on what companies need to do to ensure responsible AI development. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/… Let's unpack the details. And there will be grades! (this is after all the end of semester). 🧵

A video of my @berkeley_ai lecture on generative AI meets copyright is now available on youtube; will copyright law bring generative AI to its knees? youtube.com/watch?v=6sDGIr…

So... @NeurIPSConf finally has a Code of Ethics! 🥲 This took literal years of thoughtful deliberation with input from as many diverse stakeholders as possible. Far from perfect but such an important first step towards moving the ML field towards more ethical research practices!