🔬 Research Summary by Haoran Wang, a doctoral student at Illinois Institute of Technology, with an interest in building trustworthy AI systems to verify natural language information. [Original paper by Haoran … [Read more...] about Attacking Fake News Detectors via Manipulating News Social Engagement
Research Summaries
Automating Extremism: Mapping the Affective Roles of Artificial Agents in Online Radicalization
🔬 Research Summary by Giuliana Luz Grabina, a philosophy undergraduate student at McGill University, with an interest in AI/technology policy regulation from a gendered perspective. [Original paper by Peter … [Read more...] about Automating Extremism: Mapping the Affective Roles of Artificial Agents in Online Radicalization
Building a Credible Case for Safety: Waymo’s Approach for the Determination of Absence of Unreasonable Risk
🔬 Research summary by Dr. Francesca Favaro, who leads the Safety Best Practices team at Waymo (prev. Google Self-Driving Car Project), where she manages the development of the company safety case and works on external … [Read more...] about Building a Credible Case for Safety: Waymo’s Approach for the Determination of Absence of Unreasonable Risk
Auditing for Human Expertise
🔬 Research summary by Rohan Alur, a second year PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. [Original paper by Rohan Alur, Loren Laine, Darrick K. Li, Manish Raghavan, Devavrat Shah and … [Read more...] about Auditing for Human Expertise
REAL ML: Recognizing, Exploring, and Articulating Limitations of Machine Learning Research
🔬 Research summary by Jessie J. Smith, a 4th year PhD candidate in the Information Science department at the University of Colorado Boulder, researching best practices for operationalizing ML fairness in industry … [Read more...] about REAL ML: Recognizing, Exploring, and Articulating Limitations of Machine Learning Research