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Humans are not Boltzmann Distributions: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Human Feedback and Interaction in Reinforcement Learning

May 21, 2023

🔬 Research Summary by David Lindner, a doctoral student at ETH Zurich working on reinforcement learning from human feedback. [Original paper by David Lindner, Mennatallah El-Assady] Overview: Current work … [Read more...] about Humans are not Boltzmann Distributions: Challenges and Opportunities for Modelling Human Feedback and Interaction in Reinforcement Learning

A Prompt Array Keeps the Bias Away: Debiasing Vision-Language Models with Adversarial Learning

December 6, 2022

🔬 Research Summary by Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, PhD student at the Oxford Neural Interfacing groups at the University of Oxford. Siobhan is also a member of the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society, along with the … [Read more...] about A Prompt Array Keeps the Bias Away: Debiasing Vision-Language Models with Adversarial Learning

Sociotechnical Specification for the Broader Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles

November 14, 2022

🔬 Research Summary by Thomas Krendl Gilbert, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech’s Digital Life Initiative, and has a Ph.D. in Machine Ethics and Epistemology from the University of California, … [Read more...] about Sociotechnical Specification for the Broader Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles

Broadening AI Ethics Narratives: An Indic Art View

October 23, 2022

Summary contributed by Ajay Divakaran, a senior technical director, Center for Vision Technologies, SRI International. [Original paper by Ajay Divakaran, Aparna Sridhar, Ramya Srinivasan] Overview: The paper … [Read more...] about Broadening AI Ethics Narratives: An Indic Art View

Can an AI be sentient? Cultural perspectives on sentience and on the potential ethical implications of the rise of sentient AI.

October 13, 2022

✍️ 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.

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Tech Futures: Introducing the Resist List

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