Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/porta…
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)
Thinking about content moderation, equity, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Now: Chancellor's Fellow (~Asst. Prof) @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Past: MBZUAI, SFU, Uni of. {Sheffield, CPH}
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Special issue on ethics in NLP and CL in Computational Linguistics Journal | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org
Cate Blanchett Launches 'Human Consent Registry' to Help Protect Your Likeness From AI Industry Scraping gizmodo.com
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Articles & links
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“…it should be noted that there does not appear to be any sort of enforcement method in place for making AI firms actually comply with this at this time, and you are turning over a lot of personal data to a third-party, so uploader beware.”
AI Weekly's analysis
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- RSL Media, co-founded by Blanchett and three others, launched a free Human Consent Registry for US and EU residents.
- Users choose from three consent levels covering name, image, voice, and movement, then receive a Human Consent ID AI systems can check.
- The registry has no enforcement mechanism; compliance by AI companies, data vendors, and representative organizations is entirely voluntary.
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NLP reviews suck! But why is not clear– @aclrollingreview.bsky.social provides *a lot* of guidance for how to review, but in that, first principles get lost. So @adamlopez.bsky.social and I have written down some of our thoughts on first principles.
Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) reposted
📩 New edition of the #AIBulletin out now! This month: 🔹 EU Parliament and Council reach a deal on the AI Omnibus, including a ban on “nudifying” #AI 🔹 Commission drafts AI Act implementation guidelines 🔹 Pope Leo XIV addresses AI in his first encyclical letter 👇 Read more & si…
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