New piece in The Atlantic! We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. Still, I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer that are outweighed by broader societal harms. Gift link: www.theatlantic…
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Emma Pierson
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Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement."
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
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I’d Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast theatlantic.com
Transluce transluce.org
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Excited to join Transluce (transluce.org) part-time as a senior research fellow! (I'll remain full-time faculty at Berkeley.)
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New paper in Nature Communications! We show you can map out urban flooding by using vision-language models to detect floods in large-scale street scene datasets. In New York City, our method identifies flooded neighborhoods, home to 100k people, that current methods miss. 1/
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