🔬 Research Summary by Grace Wright, Business Development Manager at a technology start-up and has worked in research roles focused on responsible and ethical development and use of AI and other emerging … [Read more...] about Scoping AI Governance: A Smarter Tool Kit for Beneficial Applications
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Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI
🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [Original paper by Raphael Koster, Balaguer Jan, Andrea Tacchetti, Ari Weinstein, Tina Zhu, Oliver Hauser, Duncan Williams, Lucy Campbell-Gillingham, … [Read more...] about Human-centred mechanism design with Democratic AI
An Algorithmic Introduction to Savings Circles
🔬 Research Summary by Christian Ikeokwu, a PhD Student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley with a focus on Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. [Original paper by Rediet Abebe, Adam Eck, … [Read more...] about An Algorithmic Introduction to Savings Circles
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.