Long before pandemic-related lockdowns, economic inequality has been one of the most significant issues affecting humanity. A report from the United Nations in January 2020 found that inequality is rising in … [Read more...] about AI Economist: Reinforcement Learning is the Future for Equitable Economic Policy
Research summary: Learning to Diversify from Human Judgments – Research Directions and Open Challenges
Mini summary (scroll down for full summary): Current algorithmic techniques frame the notion of diversity in the sense of using the presence of sensitive attributes in the result set as a measurement for whether … [Read more...] about Research summary: Learning to Diversify from Human Judgments – Research Directions and Open Challenges
Research summary: Adversarial Machine Learning – Industry Perspectives
Mini summary (scroll down for full summary): An emerging area of concern for companies that are seeing heavy deployments of ML systems in the industry is cybersecurity. There are many emergent risks that are a … [Read more...] about Research summary: Adversarial Machine Learning – Industry Perspectives
Research summary: Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning
Mini summary (scroll down for full summary): A very timely paper that in the post-ClearviewAI world brings forth some important issues about how to think about the societal implications of the work done in the ML … [Read more...] about Research summary: Politics of Adversarial Machine Learning
Research summary: Technology-Enabled Disinformation: Summary, Lessons, and Recommendations
Mini summary (scroll down for full summary): The upcoming election cycle and the current pandemic have made all of us into inveterate consumers of copious amounts of information from a variety of sources. For a lot … [Read more...] about Research summary: Technology-Enabled Disinformation: Summary, Lessons, and Recommendations