CMU's Human-AI complementarity workshop is returning this September! Submit abstracts here by July 17; travel funding is available for accepted presenters. www.cmu.edu/ai-sdm/resea...
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Bryan Wilder
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Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon. Machine Learning and social impact. https://bryanwilder.github.io/
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Human-AI Complementarity Workshop - NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making - Carnegie Mellon University cmu.edu
What’s next for machine learning peer review? bryanwilder.substack.com
Call for the Special Track on AI for Social Impact - AAAI aaai.org
Do LLMs have beliefs? bryanwilder.substack.com
Articles & links
About a year ago, I wrote skeptically about LLMs in peer review -- not because of skepticism about their inherent capabilities, but because I don't want the research community to optimize for the taste of any one person/system. What's changed since then?
More broadly, the call emphasizes a range of ways AI work can have impact -- through field deployments, informing policy, changing what practitioners do, etc -- and we encourage authors to articulate a "theory of change" along any of these or other axes. aaai.org/conference/a...
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I'm co-chairing the social impact track at AAAI this year, with Andrew Perrault. Send us your best society-facing work! Personally, I'm especially hoping to see more work speaking to mediators of why and when AI has social impact (or not), like how AI fits into human organizations and decisions.
This week, I read "After Virtue" by Alasdair MacIntyre (only 45 years late!) Some thoughts about whether LLMs can be virtuous and how successfully the Claude constitution navigates these dilemmas ⬇️
Do LLMs have beliefs, desires, and so on? I think the answer is probably yes. But more than that, the journey leads to fascinating questions how they solve cognitive tasks and what approaches to safety/alignment could work. Here's a first post (of more to come) thinking through these questions ⬇️
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