🔬 Research Summary by Niall Docherty and Asia Biega. Dr Niall Docherty is focused on analyzing, critiquing, and building ‘healthy’ sociotechnical systems, currently at Microsoft Research New England, and, from … [Read more...] about (Re)Politicizing Digital Well-Being: Beyond User Engagements
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Rethinking Fairness: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Critiques of Hegemonic ML
🔬 Research Summary by Lindsay Weinberg, a Clinical Assistant Professor in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University, and the Founding Director of the Tech Justice Lab. [Original paper by Lindsay … [Read more...] about Rethinking Fairness: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Critiques of Hegemonic ML
Can an AI be sentient? Cultural perspectives on sentience and on the potential ethical implications of the rise of sentient AI.
✍️ Column by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. Overview: Given the events with LaMDA, Connor Wright argues that LaMDA is not sentient, drawing on teachings from the philosophy of ubuntu. He then analyses the … [Read more...] about Can an AI be sentient? Cultural perspectives on sentience and on the potential ethical implications of the rise of sentient AI.
An Empirical Study of Modular Bias Mitigators and Ensembles
🔬 Research Summary by Michael Feffer, a Societal Computing PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University. [Original paper by Michael Feffer, Martin Hirzel, Samuel C. Hoffman, Kiran Kate, Parikshit Ram, Avraham … [Read more...] about An Empirical Study of Modular Bias Mitigators and Ensembles
Who will share Fake-News on Twitter? Psycholinguistic cues in online post histories discriminate between actors in the misinformation ecosystem
🔬 Research Summary by Verena Schoenmueller, an Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Bocconi University. Verena’s research focuses on how user generated content can reflect and affect consumers behavior. … [Read more...] about Who will share Fake-News on Twitter? Psycholinguistic cues in online post histories discriminate between actors in the misinformation ecosystem