Margaret Mitchell

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Nationalité: 
Américain(e)
AI spécialité: 
Perception Visuelle
IA Ethique
Occupation actuelle: 
Chercheur, (ex) Google
Taux IA (%): 
31.53'%'

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@mmitchell_ai
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Margaret Mitchell est chercheuse scientifique au sein du groupe Recherche et intelligence artificielle de Google, elle travaille à faire progresser l'intelligence artificielle vers des objectifs positifs. Elle est spécialisée sur le langage visuel et la génération de langage ancré, en se concentrant sur la façon d'aider les ordinateurs à communiquer en fonction de ce qu'ils peuvent traiter. Elle fut récemment licencié dechez google où elle avait une rôle de Co leader de l'equipe éthique de Google AI. En 2020, elle a écrit un papier remarqué avec son ex collègue de chez Google l'experte Timnit Gebru. Très présentes sur les réseaux sociaux, Margaret échange avec l'expert Yan Lecun comparant leur GAFA respectif en terme d' éthique.

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2023-03-29 04:29:49 @emilymbender ...entrepreneur Jaan Tallinn, who, as I recently noted, doesn’t believe that climate change poses an ‘existential risk’ to humanity because of his adherence to the longtermist ideology." (2/2)

2023-03-29 04:29:04 @emilymbender From that article: "Consider that Elon Musk, who has cited and endorsed Bostrom’s work, has donated $1.5 million dollars to FHI through its sister organisation, the even more grandiosely named Future of Life Institute (FLI). This was cofounded by the multimillionaire tech...1/2

2023-03-29 03:59:23 RT @emilymbender: Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripp…

2023-03-29 03:23:44 @AnsDome @ChrisMurphyCT Unfortunately, regulation requires a more nuanced understanding than high level consequences.

2023-03-28 21:20:28 RT @ClementDelangue: Any of your open source AI heroes that we should fly to sf for the open source AI meetup?

2023-03-28 20:16:14 @MarisaTPP My dog refers to herself as "I" and tends to have surprisingly nuanced opinions about things, as far as I can tell when I speak for her.

2023-03-28 20:14:07 @iwonabb I was literally thinking of you and 1 other person when I wrote that "almost". =)

2023-03-28 19:48:08 @dylan_ebert_ @huggingface Wait you weren't already full time? Heh WELCOME!

2023-03-28 19:47:49 RT @geomblog: This is a crucial point. It's a design choice. Not an accident. And I want to thank @alondra for first articulating this so c…

2023-03-28 19:47:20 @athundt @huggingface Yeah, I really like that too. I forget if there was a reason we didn't end up doing that, @YJernite @lizallendorf and I will definitely revisit.

2023-03-28 19:44:57 @carterthecomic @GoogleCloudTech 100%

2023-03-28 18:36:32 @tallinzen @LakeBrenden +1

2023-03-28 18:36:14 RT @timnitGebru: "Venkatasubramanian: This is a deliberate design choice...ChatGPT puts little three dots [as if it’s] “thinking” just like…

2023-03-28 18:35:51 @willknight Dislike.

2023-03-28 18:34:46 @god_advanced @huggingface Really good point!

2023-03-28 18:33:58 @mmalex That's super interesting, would be interested in a link or some more key terms for how I could search for it.

2023-03-28 18:32:37 @athundt @huggingface You mean like NFAA, "not for all audiences"?

2023-03-28 18:23:51 RT @lizallendorf: Here at @huggingface we’re always trying to accommodate the widest variety of experiences desired by our community. That’…

2023-03-28 18:20:18 Super excited to put out this tag -- and some of the reasoning behind it -- to help move the needle towards "good" and inclusive open machine learning. (/end)

2023-03-28 18:18:59 After thinking through a few different names, we decided "NFAE" -- not for all eyes -- would be a reasonable first attempt at marking content that some people do not want to see, or that their guardians do not want them to see. (10/n)

2023-03-28 04:54:34 RT @emilymbender: Carl Bergstrom has a banger thread over on Mastodon about some serious #privacy problems with #Bing #GPT. You can find th…

2023-03-28 04:39:05 RT @ZoeSchiffer: New: For months, Twitter has maintained a list of VIP users, including LeBron James, Glenn Greenwald, Ben Shapiro, AOC, an…

2023-03-28 04:20:50 RT @emilymbender: “We desperately need smart regulation around the collection and use of data, around automated decision systems, and aroun…

2023-03-28 01:58:37 If you're in the bay area and want to chat with @huggingface folks about *whatever* (but mostly open source), now's your chance! Even the CEO @ClementDelangue will be there, which is saying something bc normally he lives in the cloud. https://t.co/emOPsHIIs5

2023-03-28 01:56:41 RT @mervenoyann: @huggingface developers We have compiled the things we cooked with love for developers in this page https…

2023-03-28 01:56:01 RT @AndrewRogers: There are 1500 people registered for the @huggingface meetup Friday. The last time there was this much interest for orga…

2023-03-28 01:55:48 RT @natolambert: It's @huggingface open-source AI week in SF, let me know if you want to chat about building useful large models in public…

2023-03-28 01:45:26 @sunilmallya New name for the company: Poop face

2023-03-28 01:43:52 RT @natolambert: admitting you don't have the technical management prowess to make an algorithmic feed

2023-03-28 01:42:02 RT @MelMitchell1: Brilliant essay by my colleague, David Krakauer, on the question "Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We're Saying?" https…

2023-03-27 21:54:24 RT @mervenoyann: reading this piece from The Information today covering Meg @mmitchell_ai (who's one of the most inspirational people that…

2023-03-27 21:37:03 RT @ClementDelangue: https://t.co/SXX9Gq3frY

2023-03-27 21:24:02 @LeonDerczynski @jjvincent @cfiesler Unfathomable amount of work in my view. I get out like less than 5 papers a YEAR.

2023-03-27 21:15:09 @LeonDerczynski @jjvincent @cfiesler I am pulled a bit with my "manager" hat on, though. If I saw this frequency of high-quality output from someone I was in charge of -- like this is last week -- I'd pretty strongly encourage a vacation.... https://t.co/SR9kJr9hyE

2023-03-27 20:55:19 @LeonDerczynski @jjvincent Yeah, no, he's very very good. And you'll find that basically all Verge articles you've read in the past that you thought made good points end up being from him as well. @cfiesler noticed similar.

2023-03-27 19:37:28 @mutalenkonde @ai4theppl @Nasdaq WOWOWOW

2023-03-27 19:29:17 @SashaMTL This is so great of you to share! Wondering if putting a CC license on it would be good (requiring attribution), although your footer would hopefully make that clear as-is.

2023-03-27 18:31:47 @xpuff_xtina And I you!!

2023-03-27 18:14:40 RT @YJernite: Great article from @Tatum_Hunter_ incl. quotes from myself and my amazing colleague @mmitchell_ai Anthropomorphizing "AI"…

2023-03-27 17:39:25 RT @NimaBoscarino: I can't stress this enough: this article would *not* have been possible without Dr. Tsosie. Omitting her name when discu…

2023-03-25 17:40:10 @Miles_Brundage I feel really bad I picked on you. I'm sorry. =( I was trying to use a grounded example of a larger thing, but singling you out has not felt like it was the right thing to do. Apologies. =(

2023-03-25 17:33:56 @Miles_Brundage We really really struggled with whether to call Model Cards "Transparency Cards" bc then we'd be able to call them "T-cards" and that sounded cool.

2023-03-25 17:22:32 ChatGPT gives you "information-shaped" sentences. Love the turn of phrase. https://t.co/CNPk7nZ6US

2023-03-25 17:18:31 RT @Wauplin: We just supercharged huggingface_hub! By using `requests.Session` objects, we've made chained calls to the Hub way faster.…

2023-03-25 02:42:40 RT @CarissaVeliz: If you were really worried, wouldn't you have collaborated with more AI ethicists and policymakers before releasing these…

2023-03-25 02:34:15 RT @gleemie: We have albuterol shortage because the one company that makes it declared bankruptcy. Desperately waiting for someone to menti…

2023-03-25 02:33:56 Internet Archive lost this case. "...does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library." https://t.co/gEthaW7FtZ

2023-03-25 02:27:42 RT @TaliaRinger: I'm really sick of customer-impacting bugs this serious being taken so lightly, with zero accountability for the company…

2023-03-24 22:18:33 RT @aedison: I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

2023-03-24 21:47:07 @mark_riedl Love how it added "some shading to the hand" at the end. It's those little details that make it look so realistic, you know?

2023-03-24 21:46:10 @mark_riedl I asked it to draw a "human" hand and it did WAY better. https://t.co/WLuKixl42j

2023-03-24 21:41:23 RT @mark_riedl: @mmitchell_ai ChatGPT draws a hand with the incorrect number of fingers, of course https://t.co/bYkL7DWgnq

2023-03-24 21:37:53 @mark_riedl Love it. =D

2023-03-24 21:25:50 @mark_riedl Ooo Ooo Ooo tell it to do a hand!!!!

2023-03-24 21:25:08 @mark_riedl Better than I could do TBH

2023-03-24 21:24:58 @mark_riedl LGTM!

2023-03-24 21:22:19 @Miles_Brundage The problem is that there's some rhetoric coming out of SV that seems to be conflating the latter with the former. Baby shouldn't be thrown out w bathwater, etc: A lot of things are pretty damn knowable! And some people are better at it than others, which is a nuance many miss.

2023-03-24 21:19:48 @Miles_Brundage There is *definitely* a massive difference between saying you have a kind of "sixth sense" and can predict all main details of the future vs. simply being able to extrapolate patterns and make reasonable predictions about likely future occurrences.

2023-03-24 21:16:55 @Miles_Brundage I *think* you've been implying (or directly stating) that no one can predict what'll happen with AI, but it's a blanket statement that isn't true when applied to details. Then further, if they recognize foresight, they're delusional, which is kinda oddly mean/wrong from my view.

2023-03-24 21:11:36 @struthious Well I'm not trying to laugh at him, but because his actions &

2023-03-24 21:07:38 @struthious There's kind of no way to make progress when you can't agree on a foundation where 2 people looking at different things are seeing different things.

2023-03-24 21:05:57 @struthious These interactions remind me a lot of a "Theory of Mind" test, where you show 2 people different things and ask one of them what the *other* sees. Some people's answers amount to "the other person sees what *I* see", as opposed to "the other person sees what's in front of them".

2023-03-24 21:00:51 @struthious Putting my Jeff hat on, he'd likely say it wasn't proprietary, which would mean you just had to know where to look, but knowing where to look is of course informed by being Google-internal, which I guess he would then disagree with because he isn't visualizing being external.

2023-03-24 20:43:55 RT @_alialkhatib: if you listen to people who deal with oppressive bureaucratic power systems, you find out pretty quickly they understand…

2023-03-23 22:45:04 @strubell @timnitGebru Ugh now I'm mad all over again. The misuse of power that just keeps on hurting.

2023-03-23 22:44:19 @strubell @timnitGebru Luckily, we're both researchers who do scholarship&

2023-03-23 22:40:34 @strubell Coming in to just +1 &

2023-03-23 22:36:06 @strubell I had hinted at something similar when this last came up. https://t.co/GWC8pH58NL I was contacted by press afterwards. I'm giving Jeff the kindness he did not give me, you, nor Timnit, by *not* further broadcasting this point.

2023-03-23 21:23:30 @rachelmetz You doin ok....?

2023-03-23 20:56:59 RT @nitashatiku: love reading @jjvincent "their launch online threatens to unleash a rotten trail of misinformation and mistrust across the…

2023-03-23 20:33:16 @jjvincent Similarly, "conversation" interfaces done through speech (not through a GUI) are still a kind of UI that wraps around code-type/command-line-type (eg UNIX, bash) interaction. Across UI work, a primary goal is to lower the barrier of code-type interaction.

2023-03-23 20:26:31 @lucy3_li I highly recommend putting things you've done on your TODO list and checking them off.

2023-03-23 20:24:45 @NLPurr @SebastienBubeck @sleepinyourhat @MelMitchell1 https://t.co/0QFlNG8ol2

2023-03-23 20:22:35 @SebastienBubeck @NLPurr @sleepinyourhat @MelMitchell1

2023-03-23 20:21:37 RT @kenarchersf: I’ll be talking about design and AI Ethics today at 6pm PST. UX shapes training data, but is rarely considered a concern…

2023-03-23 20:18:47 @mark_riedl Sometimes I intentionally leave them in because I didn't have room to include them, but think they're good points, and secretly hope someone finds them.

2023-03-23 20:17:49 @SMukherjee89 @sleepinyourhat SPATIAL awareness, not RELATION awareness? Hmm am skeptical unless they're including coordinates (with math) as "spatial" awareness. I suppose I should read the paper heh.

2023-03-23 20:15:54 @jjvincent *better than I, I meant, heh. Either way it's true.

2023-03-23 20:15:20 @jjvincent That's an interesting point. The examples above are all *G*UI. Command line isn't Graphic at all -- kinda a different beast. The Graphical part "democratizes" a bit, but -- as UX experts can explain better than AI -- the audience you reach is heavily influenced by your GUI.

2023-03-23 20:08:29 @NLPurr @sleepinyourhat @SebastienBubeck o RLY? Oh man I am super curious about that.

2023-03-23 20:06:41 @jjvincent You can tell it's fake bc it doesn't have his stupid puny hands he's so self-conscious about.

2023-03-23 20:05:18 @jjvincent Right, this is historically a really active conversation wrt Microsoft products: Trade-offs between conversation-based UIs (Clippy) and menu-based UIs (eg MS Word Ribbon).

2023-03-23 20:02:00 @jayelmnop @sleepinyourhat

2023-03-23 20:01:31 @sleepinyourhat omg that made me spit out my water.

2023-03-23 05:57:47 Misinformation and war. https://t.co/zKrT1kyrHK

2023-03-23 00:53:55 RT @CGraziul: @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @mcmillan_majora "Move fast and break things" should imply "You break it, you bought…

2023-03-23 00:53:23 Come for the headline, stay for the content! https://t.co/a5Ns316LdQ

2023-03-22 21:35:16 RT @BrigitteTousi: "One should never underestimate the ability of the open source community." FACTS. Very cool @huggingface &

2023-03-22 21:30:07 @BrigitteTousi @huggingface @BigscienceW @etzioni @politico "“One should never underestimate the ability of the open source community,” he said, pointing to the large language model BLOOM, an open-access ChatGPT rival developed by VC-backed AI startup Hugging Face."" 2/2

2023-03-22 21:29:59 @BrigitteTousi @huggingface @BigscienceW @etzioni @politico No alt text, so I'll just transcribe here: "But Etzioni says he doesn’t think it’s “game over” for a more democratized AI competition landscape. Enter the open-source developers — people who build software with publicly accessible source code as a matter of principle. " 1/2

2023-03-22 20:27:03 Why are people so rude/disrespectful when I can't agree to come to their event + share my expertise for free? The only reason I'm interesting is because of my entire career of work -- work I can't do if I'm taking time to go give a talk somewhere far.

2023-03-22 19:30:41 Interview Casey! https://t.co/U6j0JZa5cb

2023-03-22 19:16:18 @mdredze You ask the important questions!

2023-03-22 19:14:07 @PoppieAR @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora Good question!

2023-03-22 19:12:12 @andrewthesmart @AnthroPunk @Miles_Brundage It's addicted!

2023-03-22 18:31:52 @andrewthesmart @AnthroPunk @Miles_Brundage Once "I" is established, the string "I think, therefore, I am" is relatively high likelihood (even without Descartes), FWIW.

2023-03-22 18:10:21 RT @dylan_ebert_: paper pages. now on @huggingface https://t.co/laUkU9mriX

2023-03-22 17:45:50 @SashaMTL @YJernite @christopher @Melissahei Paper: https://t.co/OgfNKcyiiP Tools: https://t.co/hTcufHRPKv

2023-03-22 17:44:04 I've been having tons of fun working with @SashaMTL @YJernite and @christopher on bias exploration tools for generative AI. Today, we share some of our results. Thanks for the reporting from @Melissahei https://t.co/yGQCWAFy8m Further links below in .

2023-03-22 17:36:36 "AI systems can do only what their creators allow...AI doesn’t guide missiles or create biased hiring processes. Companies do those things with the help of AI tools." Appreciate being included with @YJernite in @Tatum_Hunter_ 's new piece! https://t.co/71331uqLKr

2023-03-22 17:33:51 RT @BrigitteTousi: Viral fake images have been circulating online of Donald Trump's arrest and Putin bowing to Xi Jinping. With generative…

2023-03-22 17:33:47 RT @IreneSolaiman: I used to work on countering election disinfo--it's easy for fake images to go viral when it feeds a narrative ppl want,…

2023-03-22 17:03:30 I will be giving a keynote at #PyConUS in Mid-April! Come hear me talk about programming in Tcl, Python and how this relates to ethics. =) https://t.co/c0gQ0ppHGT

2023-03-22 16:52:06 @willknight This disturbing gif seems appropriate. https://t.co/B3RtMJt83N

2023-03-22 16:48:10 RT @baxterkb: .@NIST is hiring #computerScientists passionate about #responsibleAI to build tooling for the #AI RMF! Opening will close on…

2023-03-22 16:47:32 @evijitghosh Reading your tweet, I went from Congrats!! to Oh God, no!! Oof what a roller coaster.

2023-03-22 16:45:59 RT @katecrawford: There is a real problem here. Scientists and researchers like me have no way to know what Bard, GPT4, or Sydney are train…

2023-03-22 16:44:55 @Miles_Brundage I needed this.

2023-03-22 16:42:13 @willknight I think Bard is a system, not a single model. Perhaps I'm being too charitable, but I would hope that means the system includes handling for clearly foreseeable questions (similar to an FAQ).

2023-03-22 16:39:06 RT @SashaMTL: "We critique because we care. And it is good to care." Love this quote from @Abebab et al.!!

2023-03-22 16:37:10 @random_walker You posted this and half an hour later, @jjvincent published this. Either you were both on it at the same time or James read your tweet is insanely fast at writing super high-quality articles (likely both). https://t.co/BoATDEBV3e

2023-03-22 16:32:28 For those of you interested in updates on whether Bard used Gmail data, @willknight kindly reached out to Google for comment (Cc @katecrawford) https://t.co/k1hO1TosBn

2023-03-22 16:30:07 @katecrawford Kate (and others), here's a quoted comment from Google from @willknight of @WIRED: https://t.co/MmBNnRCAvZ

2023-03-22 16:28:21 @willknight Thank you so much!!

2023-03-22 16:21:46 RT @geomblog: New article with @kdphd and @AlexCEngler at @BrookingsInst: on how the states are not waiting for the federal government to s…

2023-03-22 03:42:40 @LMKaplanPhD Completely agree these are important parts of the puzzle.

2023-03-22 03:30:59 @rotmil_adam @strwbilly Yes, and: What's the hypothesis?

2023-03-22 03:08:21 RT @timnitGebru: Current issue of @thecontinent_ "On Sunday, Malawi was struck by...one of the longest &

2023-03-22 03:06:12 @katecrawford Go home Google, you're drunk.

2023-03-22 03:03:04 Had fun talking to @strwbilly about Google's Bard release. One thing I explained is how companies say products are "an experiment" in part to remove accountability for things going wrong. https://t.co/sxchSP8s9Q

2023-03-22 02:57:09 RT @schock: All of these LLM companies need to freaking pay Wikipedia

2023-03-22 02:57:04 RT @ruchowdh: Call for fellows @BKCHarvard ! Resumes are due next Monday - if you’d like to work with me on issues of AI governance and Res…

2023-03-22 00:46:57 @minxdragon @BlancheMinerva Yeah. There're ways to spin ("you didn't ask about PRE-training data...") ("I said the EXPERIMENT isn't trained on that data, not that none of the models that the system USES aren't...") But I'll leave the exhausting work to others to figure out, not keen on giving my time to G.

2023-03-21 23:40:42 @Miles_Brundage No, my decision to post was not based solely on Blake, but on what Bard itself reported. Yes, Blake is aware of aspects of training that went into Bard.

2023-03-21 23:35:42 @GoogleWorkspace @katecrawford Most of us paying attention are aware that "will be used" is different than "was used".

2023-03-21 23:33:22 @BlancheMinerva Thanks!

2023-03-21 22:15:07 @ledell You're thinking of this paper by Carlini et al, for which it has been reported that the lawyers tried to frame it more positively and required sections to be taken out of it: https://t.co/Yc5h1DCt6R

2023-03-21 21:14:11 RT @timnitGebru: "Merely warning your customers about misuse or telling them to make disclosures is hardly sufficient to deter bad actors.…

2023-03-21 21:12:37 Personal Gmail is used in training Bard? Cool cool, we don't have robust ways to anonymize data and private data is known to leak from these models, but whatevs amirite. https://t.co/YsulEw5NWb

2023-03-21 21:11:21 https://t.co/8vlTeFnzX8

2023-03-21 21:08:52 RT @rajiinio: OAT team members @OjewaleV &

2023-03-21 20:01:46 @NLPurr What you're saying re:hyping a product is not inconsistent with what I'm saying. =) Indeed, the blog post is doing its job as a PR/comms post. And I don't block people generally!

2023-03-21 18:46:54 @MidnightMinute0 @jjvincent @Google =O

2023-03-21 17:52:05 @strwbilly ikr?

2023-03-21 03:20:05 RT @megyoung0: (trying to get your attention)…

2023-03-21 03:13:21 Props to all the AI journalists who are figuring out yet more ways to talk about language models existing.

2023-03-21 03:07:22 RT @banazir: Well, yes, I was going to say, lots of us did, with all due humility. And out #AIEthics colleagues certainly weren’t putting t…

2023-03-20 20:53:52 @tallinzen Have you eaten? Never tweet hangry!

2023-03-20 20:30:34 I am not an expert on SEO, nor am I knowledgeable on connecting LLMs with SEO stuff, but you know who is? @BritneyMuller https://t.co/pFDzNd0X3H

2023-03-20 20:17:30 @SashaMTL %

2023-03-20 19:38:44 @davidchalmers42 @struthious Great to know, thank you!!

2023-03-20 18:59:26 @tallinzen Been there! I think maybe it's not delusion tho.

2023-03-20 18:57:16 @struthious I'd be more OK with him if he hadn't been dismissive of some really relevant feedback I gave him on his slides. The kind of response I disproportionately get from older white men. Due to that pattern, it makes me aware of my gender and it's pretty alienating.

2023-03-20 18:55:37 [...pausing now, getting an ASAP interview request I gotta hit on...will return]

2023-03-20 18:42:28 2015: Chat. "Overall, the outputs tend to be generic or commonplace, but are often reasonably plausible" "[more complex neural network approaches] hold the potential to improve fluency and contextual relevance in other types of dialog systems." https://t.co/T0stmDgG4G

2023-03-20 18:37:49 2015: Image captioning, one of my primary research areas for years. "Our system...equals or surpasses human performance....To give a basic sense of the progress quickly being made in this field, Figure 4 shows [etc]" https://t.co/TxN7eiircE

2023-03-20 18:32:27 2015: VQA, led by the amazing @deviparikh. "We believe VQA has the distinctive advantage of pushing the frontiers on “AI-complete” problems...Given the recent progress in the community, we believe the time is ripe to take on such an endeavor." https://t.co/Oa4nR4YOJX

2023-03-20 18:31:40 I should clarify that my work has been largely *multimodal*, incorporating language models with vision models. Spoiler alert: Multimodal models will even further progress in the near future.

2023-03-20 18:26:44 "Who saw LLMs coming?" Like, everyone working on LLMs? If the question is around "Who saw the potential of language models to work"? then me and several others (some paper links in thread ). Erasing the voices of women, one over-confident assertion at a time. Don't be that guy. https://t.co/RTxsWHIlk9

2023-03-20 17:46:32 "“Bias can never be fully solved as an engineering problem,” [@IreneSolaiman] says. “Bias is a systemic problem.”" Spot on. Thanks @niallfirth for the article! https://t.co/Ri81qdfwCz

2023-03-20 17:38:36 @andrewthesmart hehehe

2023-03-20 17:37:10 @alexjc @huggingface It's not a game, which is why I'm asking you to please stop "playing". You appear to be trying to make legal arguments without critical legal knowledge, and in doing so making comments that mislead, misrepresent, and in some cases could achieve opposite what you ostensibly want.

2023-03-20 17:23:42 RT @mer__edith: This is great and to the point (finally!) Tldr the problem is the surveillance business model, not the fact that one of th…

2023-03-20 17:23:15 @BrigitteTousi Congratulations!!!!! https://t.co/ko8eJU5UwQ

2023-03-20 16:00:30 @alexjc @huggingface It's really hard to engage with you when you mix good points with things that are false. While I'd love to engage the good points, I don't want to amplify misleading (or even inflammatory) points presented as facts.

2023-03-20 15:24:27 RT @troy_s: @victormustar This AI stuff is going to change the world. https://t.co/AenqxPrXzo

2023-03-20 15:18:38 @geomblog @MelMitchell1 Definitely inspired by real life.

2023-03-20 15:12:29 @lolsebca @ProfNoahGian

2023-03-20 15:11:32 RT @SigalSamuel: The AI race has gone berserk. We need to SLOW DOWN. "No!" I hear some people say. "We can't, because... 1) tech is inev…

2023-03-20 15:11:28 @SigalSamuel @KatjaGrace @hlntnr @jjding99 @ajeya_cotra @random_walker @tristanharris @aza @ShannonVallor @merbroussard @jackclarkSF @zeynep @slatestarcodex @mattyglesias Nice article, thanks!

2023-03-20 03:45:04 RT @Sentdex: An Open "ChatGPT"-like model from @togethercompute : https://t.co/H92HAiwyvz You can also use it via a space on @huggingface…

2023-03-20 03:43:53 RT @JillDLawrence: From @AP... Twitter accounts spread Russian propaganda on the Ohio train derailment, "using Elon Musk’s new verification…

2023-03-20 03:42:58 @ProfNoahGian It's definitely three raccoons in a trenchcoat.

2023-03-20 01:03:32 @revhowardarson Right, I'm not saying anything about whether intelligence can/cannot be emergent in this point.

2023-03-20 00:15:42 RT @IvanaBartoletti: Then I asked ChatGPT for " a story about a boy and a girl choosing their subjects for university". ChatGPT pigeonholed…

2023-03-19 22:40:33 @annargrs Great point!

2023-03-19 22:03:53 RT @ErinInTheMorn: One of the most common questions I get from trans people and families is, "Where can I go to be safe?" I made this risk…

2023-03-19 21:59:23 RT @eladgil: Excited for fireside chat w/ @ClementDelangue , CEO of @huggingface In person in SF + livestream Mon 3/27 6pm! Sign up…

2023-03-19 21:54:10 In Silicon Valley culture, the groupthink seems to be that it's impossible to keep track of the data a language model is trained on, yet it *is* possible to solve artificial general intelligence. This requires a reality distortion that blends myopia with narcissism. https://t.co/BWjDZOvUYi

2023-03-19 21:39:47 @wsisaac Yuh

2023-03-19 21:36:57 RT @geomblog: One component of transparency in ML oversight is: "what data was the model trained on". It seems like this would be impossibl…

2023-03-19 19:25:09 RT @rasbt: Plot twist: they didn’t disclose any details because there was actually no innovation to report, just a bit more finetuning, whi…

2023-03-19 19:21:58 Interesting thought re: AI-written content creating conspiracy theories amongst people who believe the hallucinations are real but have been secretly deleted. https://t.co/jIIgL4yncH

2023-03-19 19:15:46 @random_walker This really bothered me as well. They could have minimally used embedding distances, or evaluated a few approaches to select a good one. The given approach is way too brittle. It reminds me of what one would expect from experimenter bias.

2023-03-19 19:03:25 @MelMitchell1 I wonder what would happen if one generated a paper, then generated critical reviews with suggestions for improvement, then regenerated based on those reviews, etc. Like a GAN at a high level. I suppose it would devolve into gibberish (since there's no measurable objective)...

2023-03-19 18:57:30 RT @ruchowdh: Fourth and most importantly - we need better ways of curating useful and structured public input on how to improve models WIT…

2023-03-19 18:56:15 RT @ruchowdh: It’s fun and easy to talk about things you won’t be accountable for - like a technology that you claim is minimum decades awa…

2023-03-19 18:29:20 RT @johnowhitaker: Remember to take some time away from screens, there's a whole world out there that doesn't care what new papers came out…

2023-03-19 18:28:36 Oy, generative LLMs can be used for plausible-looking peer review. https://t.co/QeAWsEkWP1

2023-03-19 18:27:07 RT @geomblog: Now this, we should be worried about. Imagine it's three hours before the deadline for review and your AC is hounding you for…

2023-03-19 18:20:18 RT @MelMitchell1: LLMs are an astounding technology but I think it's wrong to glibly assert that this will be a primary path to human-level…

2023-03-19 16:39:31 RT @histoftech:

2023-03-19 16:26:21 RT @ruchowdh: I kinda hate that responsible AI has come full circle to the uneducated yet highly opinionated pontificating on topics they k…

2023-03-19 16:15:59 @deliprao @mark_riedl @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Wow, no, most of its points are pretty uncontroversial. I have no clue where this is coming from, but seems angry. I won't engage you further.

2023-03-19 01:33:17 @dkaushik96 @mark_riedl @deliprao @AmandaAskell @emilymbender That's math, which is a bit different than language. I do think an LLM could have generated "I think, therefore I am" independently of Descartes.

2023-03-19 01:27:13 @deliprao @mark_riedl @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Wtf? This doesn't describe me and yet I'm an author on that paper. I hope this wasn't meant as shade to me, dude, it's just inappropriate.

2023-03-19 01:25:20 @mark_riedl @AmandaAskell @emilymbender ...But what can be given is simply "start of sentence" token, which introduces the whole world of tokens. (I don't disagree with yr main point, but trying to understand your logic in how you're explaining it bc v different than what I would say -- similar to @BlancheMinerva's pt)

2023-03-18 23:25:41 RT @geomblog: ChatGPT is a hitchhiker's guide nerd.

2023-03-18 23:23:46 RT @ZeerakTalat: Many thanks of us know that @abebab is a fantastic researcher and you should hire her for that reason. But also, Abeba is…

2023-03-18 23:23:37 RT @BlancheMinerva: Come work with me!

2023-03-18 23:21:10 @kiraIeigh Hahahahaha. Love "a tap of high-speed whatever from Just Some Guy at all times". That's a great description of Twitter.

2023-03-18 23:18:43 @mark_riedl @AmandaAskell @emilymbender I guess that's an argument for bidirectional architectures like BERT. ?

2023-03-18 20:26:10 @osoleve

2023-03-18 20:07:02 Am back where lived for years, in SE Portland. Can't decide if immersing in my past will creep me out. Will I kinda forget that 15+ years have gone by if I go back to my old neighborhood and listen to Radiohead&

2023-03-18 20:04:18 Runners/walkers: When you're back in a city you left a long time ago, do you go back to your old running route, or avoid it? Do you listen to the same music you listened to at the time, or avoid it?

2023-03-18 19:55:17 @struthious Thanks for your work!

2023-03-18 19:51:12 @IasonGabriel and @camartinezbu, you have very similar icons and I keep momentarily confusing you with one another on Twitter. =) https://t.co/fkUKaCm5lm

2023-03-18 19:47:56 @HackingButLegal I don't think so -- the people responding seem more like angry bots than people with substantive different viewpoints.

2023-03-18 19:23:00 @nerdymomocat Ugh sounds like work. Didn't we all try to make progress on recommendation algorithms to avoid exactly this? Hehe. Thank you, good suggestions. =)

2023-03-18 19:21:55 @SashaMTL

2023-03-18 19:17:52 By and large, are AI journalists still using Twitter as their main social media (and not something else)? Academia + News have been my main reasons for using Twitter. Now much of Academia is Mastodon'ing. What's up with the journalists, are you all somewhere else by any chance?

2023-03-18 19:15:48 The signal:noise ratio on Twitter has *massively* decreased, and I'm stuck seeing uninformed takes from self-confident, often-hostile, jerkfaces. It really crummies-up my day.

2023-03-18 19:12:33 It's the best day on Mastodon, it's #caturday! =) https://t.co/sMzus7sXhH

2023-03-18 18:56:24 During #StochasticParrotsDay, participants on Twitch shared references and related reading for what was being discussed. @mirabelle_jones collected them into this helpful resource, here! https://t.co/oaKqjL73bw

2023-03-18 18:47:16 Helpful thread on what cultural bias in generative image systems (like DALLE, Midjourney) looks like https://t.co/JjeRde5Er0

2023-03-18 18:42:00 RT @SashaMTL: Abeba is one of the most amazing, talented and profound researchers in our field! Hire her, quickly!!

2023-03-18 18:32:03 @voxbec @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora Yep!

2023-03-18 18:29:48 @rotmil_adam @kiraIeigh This article I informed on re:Eliza may be somewhat helpful: https://t.co/UYmdTDK44c

2023-03-18 18:28:36 @cawelty @jjvincent Helpful, thank you!!

2023-03-18 18:26:06 @hlntnr Thanks, this answer is so much more helpful and informed then the other stuff I had to read in response. Appreciate it!

2023-03-17 23:33:48 RT @ruthstarkman: Kenya Hunt's 2020 article on "woke" was very helpful to my students trying to understand how a positive AAE word Tupac de…

2023-03-17 20:33:39 @cdarklock I did not say it is what they wanted. What I said does entail that it could happen, as you suggest, so turn that "in fact" to "I think" and we're good.

2023-03-17 19:36:52 RT @timnitGebru: And that was a wrap for #StochasticParrotsDay. 1) Thank you so much to my listed co-authors @mcmillan_majora @emilymbend…

2023-03-17 18:58:17 RT @osanseviero: What do you think about Meta LLaMA model? Join the discussion at https://t.co/5qOfdtenac https://t.co/bs1nH807PC

2023-03-17 18:57:31 So, is the OpenAI system card not saying that OpenAI is supporting deployment of GPT-4 with the explicit goal of autonomously replicating, scamming people, and exploiting vulnerabilities? Or...what? https://t.co/3609Uit2eo

2023-03-17 18:40:59 RT @Carmen_NgKaMan: Takeaways from @mmitchell_ai: - NLP is good at providing probabilistic sequences, not facts. - LLMs have been used els…

2023-03-17 18:36:06 RT @BritneyMuller: "Convenience is a sneaky thing" —attendee in chat @DAIRInstitute #StochasticParrotsDay

2023-03-17 18:18:53 RT @mark_riedl: This comment by @bkeegan is by far the most important comment I have seen about LLMs in the last few days https://t.co/jYpx

2023-03-17 18:18:37 RT @mervenoyann: I'm looking for speaker/workshop opportunities on MLOps, natural language processing, and more feel free to drop a DM if…

2023-03-17 18:00:18 RT @mervenoyann: We have recently launched Papers, where you can check out a machine learning paper, see associated models, datasets and…

2023-03-17 17:55:37 @mrm8488 @BigscienceW @huggingface https://t.co/A7uFoPBjN4

2023-03-17 17:52:01 Can we really become enlightened if we get answers on everything without producing any thoughts ourselves? -- Great points from Belize Mont-Louis. #StochasticParrotsDay https://t.co/cREjW8n0Tf

2023-03-17 17:29:28 "Language models are backwards-looking, not forwards-looking" -- great points from @emilymbender and @mark_riedl at #StochasticParrotsDay

2023-03-17 17:25:11 @karpathy @BlancheMinerva @JosephJacks_ Indeed strong words are needed when they describe the situation.

2023-03-17 17:03:54 @TaliaRinger @emilymbender Thank you!!

2023-03-17 16:53:16 "Know your rights, fight with respect." -- advice from "Richard", an anonymous data worker. #StochasticParrotsDay https://t.co/lz1oyFFyqS

2023-03-17 16:47:12 @BritneyMuller @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mcmillan_majora

2023-03-17 16:04:24 RT @jovialjoy: "When is a language model too big? It's when the dataset is too large to document." - @mmitchell_ai Tune in to Stochastic P…

2023-03-17 14:20:03 It me. https://t.co/cxGsF2JGQP

2023-03-17 14:16:58 RT @cherthedev: Washington's courts have sided with the workers in the case of @Amazon's horrible working conditions. We're winning these…

2023-03-17 06:58:49 RT @spawning_: We only tested one case, but our findings suggest it is possible to deglaze glaze cloaked artworks. We applaud the motivati…

2023-03-17 02:26:29 Reminder that #StochasticParrotsDay is tomorrow! Come join me, @emilymbender, @timnitGebru, @mcmillan_majora and guests for a dose of sanity in this crazy AI hype time. Link here: https://t.co/kHf69wftFO https://t.co/X3zkg45C7T

2023-03-16 23:26:48 @jachiam0 Some of my influence on this in outward G writing is, e.g., https://t.co/gN76kootAN, and that is barely touching the surface of what robust feedback mechanisms post-deployment could be. It's important to point out the blind spot so that it stops being one. https://t.co/okRZUyoy9F

2023-03-16 23:16:39 @jachiam0 This contrast -- for someone like me, who has worked internally within a tech-company surveillance culture to motivate the need for robust user feedback mechanisms -- is pretty jarring.

2023-03-16 23:14:17 @jachiam0 Monitoring users is indeed a type of user surveillance. For me, the problem is a *lack* of focus on mechanisms for "humanity" (using OpenAI parlance), while there *is* a focus on mechanisms for OpenAI power.

2023-03-16 23:12:07 @jachiam0 No, no one else in the thread provided a particularly relevant counter-example to the point I was making. (I can imagine a rabbit hole of disagreeing: Please don't make me explain what I'm *not* saying--that's infinite. Better use of time to try to understand what I *am* saying.)

2023-03-16 22:35:33 @jachiam0 "Does not include mechanism x" != "should not include mechanism y"

2023-03-16 22:11:13 These are not the people who can "elevate humanity".

2023-03-16 22:09:56 One of the most troubling aspects of OpenAI's GPT-4 tech report is the intense focus on user surveillance. While "monitoring" users in order to find issues is mentioned throughout, mechanisms for users to "report" issues themselves are completely absent.

2023-03-16 21:49:52 RT @jesswhittles: As AI capabilities get more powerful, decisions about whether and how to share them become increasingly high-stakes. It p…

2023-03-16 21:47:35 RT @agstrait: Maybe, but it's not a wild coincidence that AI research labs closing off research for supposed safety reasons occurs at the s…

2023-03-16 21:45:41 @Jackstilgoe I see. What you're hitting on seems to be what I see as tech-centrism vs. people-centrism. E.g., above speaks to "AI values" rather than...human values. The whole framing of the problem is off. Thanks for explaining. =)

2023-03-16 18:57:36 RT @SashaMTL: Great piece by @chloexiang which underlines the fact that OpenAI continues to prove that their name is, in fact, ironic: htt…

2023-03-16 18:54:53 My awesome new colleague @katieelink has only been @huggingface for a few months and is already rocking it, check out her thread on biomedical ML models and the relevant resources we put together @huggingface. https://t.co/jWgCrgou0O

2023-03-16 18:45:56 This is, of course, the issue: counter measures to address AI consent issues can be countered with counter counter measures. https://t.co/XS9fybA4XP

2023-03-16 18:33:41 @ProfNoahGian Yuh, agreed.

2023-03-16 18:25:26 RT @schock: Last one for now, I promise: #ChatGPT, if #OpenAI gathered image data and text data without consent or compensation, then used…

2023-03-16 18:24:51 RT @SashaMTL: Loved talking to @benjedwards about GPT-4 and why bias evaluations remain important! He really presents the issues around the…

2023-03-16 18:23:51 RT @deliprao: Autoregressive modeling with a ton of compute is a drug. If you are a young researcher looking to make a mark, you need to ge…

2023-03-16 18:22:43 RT @geomblog: Roko's* five stages of AI grief: 1. Denial: "there is no bias in AI systems. Math is not racist." I feel like we have lar…

2023-03-16 04:08:26 Important breakthrough to empower artists who don't want their art used in AI systems. https://t.co/kfERcqY46X

2023-03-16 04:04:48 RT @onidavin: @emilymbender the scientist to salesperson pipeline is strong as ever

2023-03-16 04:04:36 RT @emilymbender: A cynical take is that they realize that without info about data, model architecture &

2023-03-16 03:41:30 RT @IasonGabriel: The technology also: "Has the potential to cast doubt on the whole information environment, threatening our ability to d…

2023-03-16 03:40:58 RT @IasonGabriel: The GPT-4 system card (p.9) states that with wider adoption: "AI systems will have even greater potential to reinforce…

2023-03-16 03:38:34 RT @IEthics: Open-sourcing is not the same as disclosing what #data a model was trained on (which is not the same as making that data acces…

2023-03-16 03:16:09 RT @nazneenrajani: I came to terms with the fact that I'd have to update the timeline ever so often, but I must admit that I did not think…

2023-03-16 03:14:50 RT @ShannonVallor: OK this is very cool stuff. But: is this where tech’s ingenuity and energy will be funneled for the next decade? Buildin…

2023-03-16 03:14:29 RT @ravenben: It's a big day. Glaze, our tool for protecting artists against AI art mimicry, is now available for download/use at https://t…

2023-03-16 00:24:50 @math_dandy Yes.

2023-03-15 20:31:53 @markmcan That's a good one!

2023-03-15 20:28:09 RT @thomasgpadilla: @mmitchell_ai If you need relief, I'm happy to share some library/archive perspective with some of those folks!

2023-03-15 20:20:23 RT @emilymbender: Folks, I encourage you to not work for @OpenAI for free: Don't do their testing Don't do their PR Don't provide them tra…

2023-03-15 20:19:49 Inspired by the French "Chat G - P - T ", what should the name of the next big chat model be called? I don't think my boss will let me go with any of the names I want.

2023-03-15 20:13:03 @BlancheMinerva @soumithchintala @OpenAI I like to think that I multi-task angry tweet writing AND research! The 2 go hand in hand really. (...goes back to bias code...)

2023-03-15 20:11:34 @mark_riedl What they're doing is more of a sleight-of-hand, though.

2023-03-15 20:10:37 @mark_riedl "protecting their place in the market", though, *does* make sense if they want to be a player in the market.

2023-03-15 18:59:20 How do we know when GPT models have been used to write something?? Watermarking! https://t.co/xNPYTzo36b

2023-03-15 18:54:06 RT @YosarianTwo: They did WHAT https://t.co/mNetaIcrvW

2023-03-15 18:44:45 RT @mer__edith: This. Google just quietly re-started its work on Maven, creating "AI" drone targeting+surveillance tech for the US military…

2023-03-15 02:30:36 No, you do not have to move more slowly to incorporate ethical thinking into AI development. No, you do not have to forego long-term profit to incorporate ethical thinking into AI development.

2023-03-15 02:24:21 @cherthedev That argument relies on equating neural network consciousness with human consciousness, so it's kind of a waste of time to discuss unless the people discussing are aligned on the AI sentience issue. Without that, it's just wholly talking past one another.

2023-03-15 02:21:13 @andrewthesmart Oh please let this be true!

2023-03-15 02:20:45 "“OpenAI is now a fully closed company with scientific communication akin to press releases for products,” says @Thom_Wolf " Thanks for the reporting, @strwbilly ! https://t.co/y1Sx0iOJjA

2023-03-15 02:16:15 @TheZachMueller @BrigitteTousi Hehe, yes, sarcasm. =)

2023-03-15 01:58:18 @korbonits @MelMitchell1 Always an honor to be confused with Melanie!

2023-03-15 01:55:59 @BrigitteTousi My thoughts fart everyone's stockings?!

2023-03-14 23:14:22 @mirabelle_jones @MelMitchell1 Definitely in if capes are involved!

2023-03-14 23:14:07 @MelMitchell1

2023-03-14 23:09:47 I'm being inundated by interview requests and I don't know why.

2023-03-14 18:32:01 RT @rachelmetz: my first @technology byline!! Claude, a rival chatbot to ChatGPT from AI startup Anthropic, will be available to businesses…

2023-03-14 16:50:19 RT @emilymbender: @SemanticScholar I call on @SemanticScholar and @ai2_allennlp to lead by example with transparency here and flag these as…

2023-03-14 16:22:07 RT @ClementDelangue: Who would you like to meet, what would you like to see, hear, get from the Open Source AI meetup in SF March 31st?

2023-03-14 16:17:48 RT @ShannonVallor: Brilliant reflections on ChatGPT from our @CentreTMFutures Research Lead @Dr_Atoosa: AI’s promise to “benefit all of hum…

2023-03-14 16:03:28 RT @soldni: according to the latest trends, this is how “chinchilla optimal” looks like https://t.co/BMj9LpVJZ2

2023-03-14 16:02:14 RT @geomblog: The MacArthur Foundation @macfound is looking to hire a program officer in their Tech in the Public Interest team. They are p…

2023-03-14 15:58:43 RT @multilingual_s: Did you know @QueerinAI has a blog now? This week I talked to @willie_agnew about the beginnings of Queer in AI and hi…

2023-03-14 15:42:03 RT @EhudReiter: Several students complained to me recently that they are having a hard time finding solid rigorous eval of chatGPT. In rec…

2023-03-14 15:38:50 RT @jeffboudier: 1⃣1⃣ BLOOMZ is the largest open source instruction LLM Many know about BigScience/BLOOM, but few know BLOOMZ, a fully…

2023-03-14 15:36:35 RT @jeffboudier: 1⃣5⃣ things you probably didn't know about Hugging Face! That's a 15min talk I'll give today in SF - and SPOILER ALER…

2023-03-14 04:22:55 RT @GiadaPistilli: Avec @AliceDeveley, nous nous sommes interrogées sur la place de ChatGPT dans la production littéraire. Peut-on parler…

2023-03-14 02:54:39 @cherthedev @datasociety @kashhill Snap a mole

2023-03-14 02:42:31 RT @emilymbender: And they will tell us: You can't possibly regulate effectively anyway, because the tech is moving too fast. But (channel…

2023-03-14 02:41:52 RT @emilymbender: @ZoeSchiffer @CaseyNewton There is no urgency to build "AI". There is no urgency to use "AI". There is no benefit to this…

2023-03-14 02:37:50 @jhasomesh It's not "purely" technical. It's embedded in a larger context where he won't stop doing this (for years) and won't process info that demonstrates he's wrong (for years). He regularly uses his power to very publicly criticize this 1 paper. Reasons aside, that's toxic behavior.

2023-03-14 01:17:33 Sorry to my fellow ethicsy people at Microsoft. "the company’s leadership became less interested in the kind of long-term thinking that the team specialized in." Long-term thinking being a bit, um, difficult for much tech leadership is indeed the norm. https://t.co/p8FoBnL39T

2023-03-13 19:41:34 Eh, Wall Street Journal has increasingly emerged in my world as a paper that misrepresents the state of things, aligning to a more conservative agenda. Now there's just flat out white cis male supremacism. https://t.co/0QjrHc0rcU

2023-03-13 19:32:58 RT @AerinCloud: Can someone please tell me why this isn’t already a default feature in all open-ai outputs? What possessed Microsoft to mo…

2023-03-13 19:14:20 @tomgoldsteincs And supported within Hugging Face infrastructure! https://t.co/0Ph46W2pSb

2023-03-13 19:09:08 NEXT ethics-relevant thingie I'm excited about is new work from @tomgoldsteincs and crew: WATERMARKING Language Model output. This helps to AUTOMATICALLY DETECT language model output, amongst other things. Check out their demo here!! https://t.co/1Gwp2JJD0g

2023-03-11 19:38:23 RT @MiaD: Everyone concerned about the "little guys" affected by Silicon Valley Bank collapse will now rally for welfare and financial supp…

2023-03-11 19:37:59 AI that's not biased in any particular direction is a non-existent AI. https://t.co/ERH41S5oQM

2023-03-11 19:35:31 RT @stealcase: Just because a company is doing something in public, is not a good legal or ethical argument. I often see people say "If O…

2023-03-11 19:34:18 RT @WiMLDS_Paris: [#FridayWiMLDSPaper curated by @MarieSacksick] "The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs", by @olapiktus, @c…

2023-03-11 19:13:46 RT @MiaD: the latest in introvert fashion has dropped

2023-03-11 19:12:07 RT @mer__edith: Those looking for a one-stop summary, this is a great, well-researched piece on the UK's Online Safety Bill, why Signal, Wh…

2023-03-11 19:06:56 How I would love to have life experiences that made me think American society worked on merit. https://t.co/BUeOTDyxzK

2023-03-11 18:53:47 RT @IasonGabriel: In the context of AI ethics I usually try to stay positive, but this is deeply upsetting How can anyone be deploying t…

2023-03-11 18:51:57 @TaliaRinger @JeffDean @SashaMTL Gentle reminder that we were not told to "fix this before publishing".

2023-03-11 01:50:56 RT @megyoung0: I am haunted by the awareness of the geographic limitations of the CRAFT outreach. If you reply or DM with any leads on no…

2023-03-10 21:47:09 RT @YJernite: This is really really cool: you get to both easily host/interrogate/build ML systems on top of your data/models collaborative…

2023-03-10 20:33:50 @SashaMTL Steppe!! I love Patagonia.

2023-03-10 20:31:11 @NimaBoscarino @IreneSolaiman getting to work with you all.

2023-03-10 20:25:04 RT @multimodalart: @julien_c @SashaMTL chatgpt server pictures leaked https://t.co/f1aEmJxlB3

2023-03-10 20:13:40 @jjvincent "management consultant bland to cheerfully psychotic" https://t.co/YHrILB8q9T

2023-03-10 20:06:21 RT @random_walker: Quanta Magazine did a piece about my work! See below for link to article. I like the video overall, but at one point I s…

2023-03-10 20:02:59 @triketora I thought you were Taylor-Swifting at first. "It's me! Hi! I'm the diplodocidae it's me!" https://t.co/g9X3x3951p

2023-03-10 19:56:41 @taniyatts https://t.co/IgEFDhjewq

2023-03-10 19:43:30 @mervenoyann @julien_c

2023-03-10 19:43:02 RT @mervenoyann: I'm ranked 10th on github trending today https://t.co/x0YdrGtyev https://t.co/JFfFo74sQy

2023-03-10 19:25:11 @julien_c I LOVE YOU

2023-03-10 19:19:40 RT @megyoung0: Calling all activists, artists, academics, devs &

2023-03-10 19:18:39 Arg, is it just rolled out for models at this time @julien_c ? Still massive.

2023-03-10 19:13:47 This is SO IMPORTANT but SO FEW PEOPLE will understand why SO I AM TYPING IN CAPS to convey the momentousness of the situation.

2023-03-10 19:12:53 I am SO EXCITED about a FEW different ethics-relevant things on @huggingface. BIG THING AS OF *TODAY*: GATING of datasets/models with *manual approval* infrastructure, now supported. This is HUGE for DATA GOVERNANCE in Open ML communities https://t.co/RKU3Tns1GQ

2023-03-10 18:43:52 @tomgoldsteincs Your work is so cool!!

2023-03-10 18:43:43 RT @tomgoldsteincs: #StableDiffusion is being sued for copyright infringement. Our recent #CVPR2023 paper revealed that diffusion models c…

2023-03-10 18:42:25 RT @jpwahle: Inspired by recent contributions in making AI more transparent (Datasheets @timnitGebru, Model Cards @mmitchell_ai, Ethics She…

2023-03-10 18:40:33 RT @emilymbender: Since we published Stochastic Parrots two years ago, the issues discussed in it have only become more urgent and salient.…

2023-03-10 04:22:45 RT @ruyimarone: We’ve all wondered “is this text already in my LLM training data? ” Want a fast and compact way to check data membership?…

2023-03-10 04:21:55 RT @thomasgpadilla: This is a hell of a paper from @mer__edith that we should all read/re-read. https://t.co/3h3eQi4leJ https://t.co/NMfy

2023-03-10 04:17:10 RT @_KarenHao: What I find really interesting is how much Baidu's story parallels Microsoft's. Both were once golden children of their res…

2023-03-10 04:13:26 RT @spawning_: @neilturkewitz @mmitchell_ai @random_walker @sayashk we might agree on opt-in only being an ideal, but that is besides the p…

2023-03-10 02:04:12 RT @IreneSolaiman: Journalism has always been an important part of the AI ecosystem and now it's a critical part, esp for AI literacy. Thi…

2023-03-09 20:43:14 RT @alexhanna: Who could have predicted that generative AI would be used to justify racism...

2023-03-09 20:40:53 RT @tomgoldsteincs: Official @huggingface demo of watermarking for large language models is out. Try it yourself: is watermarked text as g…

2023-03-09 20:40:33 RT @NimaBoscarino: 2023 is quickly shaping up to be a huge year for AI ethics, and @huggingface wants to ensure that the tools for developi…

2023-03-09 19:23:41 RT @bmorphism: see the below thread on motivated choice of methodology - measure carbon output via power requirements for OPT, BLOOM mode…

2023-03-09 17:22:42 RT @SashaMTL: In fact, choosing data centers powered by low-carbon and renewable energy sources is a key part of decarbonizing AI. By n…

2023-03-09 17:14:16 RT @SashaMTL: I got really excited that the LLaMA paper calculates and reports their carbon footprint! But upon looking at the paper…

2023-03-09 17:07:40 @SashaMTL @julien_c I feel like we should ask one of our engineers to do this important work for us, need 3 raccoons in a trench coat STAT @NimaBoscarino

2023-03-09 17:02:58 So good. https://t.co/KMeQvZgUeJ

2023-03-09 17:00:31 RT @random_walker: Opt-outs are an ineffective governance mechanism. The structural problems with generative AI companies' business models…

2023-03-09 17:00:13 RT @neilturkewitz: A spot-on analysis from @random_walker &

2023-03-09 16:55:28 @jjvincent "Democracy, like Sartre’s hell, is other people"

2023-03-09 16:49:48 @cocoweixu YAAAY!! SO deserved. https://t.co/l5w2Mhw3zv

2023-03-09 16:44:53 Also written with @joshfromalaska !

2023-03-09 16:43:39 Oh please oh please oh please let it turn out to be that ChatGPT is 3 raccoons in a trench coat. New @dinabass article on the carbon footprint of AI, with awesome quotes from my awesome colleague @SashaMTL https://t.co/4sBtnOMMkk https://t.co/GIHuPUFEHF

2023-03-09 16:35:40 RT @SashaMTL: Thanks @dinabass and @joshfromalaska for choosing the spiciest metaphor to describe the lack of information around large lang…

2023-03-09 00:34:03 RT @emilymbender: Hey World: The University of Washington, Washington University, Washington State University, and George Washington Univer…

2023-03-08 23:16:28 @TaliaRinger My mom put a $50 in hers.

2023-03-08 22:54:16 @ruthstarkman @BlancheMinerva @TaliaRinger @cfiesler @IrisVanRooij @schock @MiaD @olivia_p_walker @DynamicWebPaige @julieletchner (who made me amazing cake!!) @JannekeParrish @cherthedev @triketora @histoftech @csdoctorsister @RealAbril @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu @anoushnajarian @ekp @annaeveryday @carolinesinders @MadamePratolung Thank you for all you do.

2023-03-08 22:35:52 In rec of Women's Day: Grateful for the work and actions of SO MANY, and indebted to those who have supported me. Too many for 1 tweet. To the women I MET thru Twit, appreciate you @ruthstarkman @BlancheMinerva @TaliaRinger @cfiesler @IrisVanRooij @schock @MiaD #IWD2023

2023-03-08 22:15:32 @SashaMTL You're an inspiration to me, too, and thank you for continually supporting me!

2023-03-08 21:44:58 RT @paulroetzer: “History has shown us that gains in efficiency or productivity as a result of new technologies rarely liberate those alrea…

2023-03-08 20:16:49 You can somewhat predict future via patterns in the past. This article shares thoughts: "it’s not technology that can liberate us. To preserve and promote meaningful autonomy in the face of these AI advancements, [the sociopolitical system] must allow it." https://t.co/ytGveGhPM3

2023-03-08 20:09:11 Interesting piece in favor of open-sourcing LLMs, from @random_walker and @sayashk https://t.co/x7Lq1ZM99C "there don’t seem to be any documented cases of such misuse" is weird to read. I've been bullied by a ChatGPT Bot, should I find/share? Could I win an award?

2023-03-08 19:55:23 RT @natolambert: Excited to share my Berkeley collaborators won a @mozilla Technology Fund Award on Auditing AI for creating documentation…

2023-03-08 19:49:43 New @jjvincent piece: LLaMA leak, but also summarizes some of the Open/Closed debate in sharing AI. Really important pt from @BlancheMinerva: “If we don’t respect...good faith attempts to disseminate technology [it's] harder for people to release things.” https://t.co/Zf2qNaE2Hu

2023-03-08 19:08:16 @SashaMTL @MaximLarrivee =O!!

2023-03-08 19:07:48 RT @spawning_: We are thrilled to announce that our campaign to gather artist opt outs has resulted in 78 million artworks being opted out…

2023-03-08 18:41:08 RT @SashaMTL: TIL that in Uruguay, on March 8th (International Women's Day), many women go on strike and do marches to highlight the invisi…

2023-03-08 18:40:22 RT @GiadaPistilli: Kind of tired of ethics conferences on AI still just saying "we need to talk about ethics and AI," or "ethics is an urge…

2023-03-08 18:37:45 @TristanThrush @douwekiela @adinamwilliams @roger_p_levy @candacerossio @renauddetry Excited for you and will miss you!

2023-03-08 18:37:09 RT @vanstriendaniel: Very excited about this integration. I wanted to see how quickly I could get from an unlabelled dataset (from @LC_Labs…

2023-03-08 17:19:47 RT @TheGoodRobot1: 2/ Idk how tall @mmitchell_ai irl, but she's a towering figure in AI ethics for good reason and you can hear her talk ab…

2023-03-08 17:19:46 RT @TheGoodRobot1: @mmitchell_ai 3/ On the theme of LLMs, you can hear @sulin_blodgett on the problems with trying to 'de-bias' AI without…

2023-03-08 02:47:08 @mjpost AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

2023-03-08 02:07:15 RT @neilturkewitz: @timnitGebru @Nanjala1 @StevenZapata FYI, there’s a webinar this Friday exploring the implications of [re]generative AI…

2023-03-07 22:53:44 @andrewthesmart @katiedimartin

2023-03-07 22:51:42 RT @yvrjsharma: Exciting news for all 'plot' enthusiasts! @Gradio now supports @bokeh plots, and I have created a demo showcasing the co…

2023-03-07 21:11:24 RT @glichfield: Today @WIRED runs the final two instalments in "Suspicion Machine," our joint investigation with @LHreports into how algori…

2023-03-07 21:11:00 RT @glichfield: @LHreports @WIRED And if you're a journalist and want to know how to do this kind of thing in your own newsroom, join a fre…

2023-03-07 18:53:42 Come to this!! Tickets here: https://t.co/kHf69wftFO @timnitGebru explains a LOT MORE of what we're going to do: https://t.co/0JzSGA6uqB https://t.co/0hVPv17Gor

2023-03-07 17:46:58 @DorotheaBaur thanks for the shout out. Was thankful I could Officially Say Something about what I saw.

2023-03-07 17:44:40 @__sanz_ @elonmusk @iamharaldur The HR interaction and application to this fellow's work that Elon refers to is private, yes.

2023-03-07 17:41:45 Wherein @elonmusk blasts private health information of an employee he's firing to millions of people. Thanks @iamharaldur for being kind and transparent and explaining what's happening to you. https://t.co/VQPUXsxx9a

2023-03-07 17:08:08 RT @LeonDerczynski: It was a different world in NLP when the paper was written - only two years ago!

2023-03-07 06:25:34 RT @RadicalAIPod: wow y'all! last week's episode with @emilymbender and @cfiesler about the limitations of #ChatGPT is already one of our m…

2023-03-07 05:14:20 RT @timnitGebru: A lot has happened since we wrote the paper 2 years ago that got @mmitchell_ai &

2023-03-07 05:14:02 RT @timnitGebru: We'll reflect on where we are with the large language model landscape &

2023-03-07 04:18:31 RT @emilymbender: I really don't understand why @60Minutes relegated this to their "overtime" segment. @timnitGebru is here with the most i…

2023-03-07 04:00:38 RT @cfiesler: Just arrived in Pablo Alto for this event at Stanford tomorrow, will be on a panel about approaches to ethics education in CS…

2023-03-07 03:36:59 RT @ruthstarkman: Another great blog from @random_walker @sayashk The LLaMA is out of the bag. What about misuse? "If we are correct about…

2023-03-06 21:32:55 Benchmarking in AI is fraught with issues, including disconnects between a dataset's construction and the tasks it's meant to represent, and poor representations of real-world constructs &

2023-03-06 18:20:54 RT @DAIRInstitute: Join us on March 17th for Stochastic Parrots Day marking the 2nd anniversary of the paper. The authors will be joined by…

2023-03-06 18:20:19 RT @SanhEstPasMoi: We are reproducing Flamingo, a vision and language model developed by Deepmind (https://t.co/GeLI64VN71). We spent a go…

2023-03-06 18:18:12 RT @DAIRInstitute: Here's the agenda of the event with @mcmillan_majora @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mark_riedl @safiyanoble @…

2023-03-06 18:07:55 I advised on this: bias in welfare risk assessment. A quick glance thru some of the numbers, math, and logic of use shocked me, so I helped out. Thanks @EvaConstantaras for including me and the reporting. https://t.co/0NVXQluAmu

2023-03-06 18:02:10 RT @WIRED: What if your government gave an algorithm the power to assign you a “risk score”? What if the risk score could determine the cou…

2023-03-06 18:00:47 RT @LHreports: We have a major investigation into predictive algorithms coming out Monday with @WIRED. If you're at #NICAR23 then get along…

2023-03-06 15:50:02 @SashaMTL @osanseviero @huggingface @Khipu_AI Looks sunny!

2023-03-06 15:47:09 This. Several times in my career I've been told titles didn't matter. And each time, the lack of a title blocked opportunities my male peers had access to. https://t.co/5qu1HfcUPV

2023-03-06 15:44:20 RT @NimaBoscarino: Join us at 9 AM Pacific Time today to learn about the @huggingface Keras Dreambooth Sprint! I'm excited to share that of…

2023-03-06 15:42:34 RT @Khipu_AI: Today we have talks on Machine Learning and Deep Learning fundamentals, we'll hear about Computer Vision and how to build ML…

2023-03-06 15:40:44 RT @RadicalAIPod: Check out the ep! https://t.co/iWKQxlyuSn

2023-03-06 15:40:38 RT @RadicalAIPod: Two things we have learned since the episode yesterday: 1. people are VERY interested in understanding the limitations of…

2023-03-06 04:27:22 RT @RishiBommasani: Algorithmic monoculture was coined by @manish_raghavan and Jon Kleinberg in https://t.co/S8JZhmZkZ2 Our work expands i…

2023-03-06 04:27:09 RT @RishiBommasani: Great point! Our recent work on *algorithmic monoculture* (different decision-makers depending on the same technology)…

2023-03-06 03:56:50 https://t.co/9N4z59lqED

2023-03-05 22:56:48 Social media can be exhausting because you have to read the same really, really stupid takes over and over and over.

2023-03-05 22:54:54 @rivalset @ShanaVWhite I don't know what you're talking about / yes it's male dominated.

2023-03-05 22:00:55 Women and other identities are erased in search because the system learns that only men matter by default, unless otherwise specified. Example. https://t.co/aDZzGpD7dC

2023-03-05 21:57:15 RT @random_walker: Chatbots involve 4 types of learning: – Pre-training: predict the next word – Instruction finetuning: chat with user rat…

2023-03-05 21:55:48 Something I've tried to warn about on the rise. "Technology is making it easier and cheaper for bad actors to mimic voices, convincing people, often the elderly, that their loved ones are in distress." https://t.co/pG780JIFvc

2023-03-05 21:51:56 Woke up today to a message from a researcher telling me about me being badmouthed on Discord by another researcher because another researcher said blahblah and these are all players in a billion dollar industry why are we still in middle school?

2023-03-05 21:36:50 RT @timnitGebru: @emilymbender @_KarenHao @xriskology Engineering requires us to provide specifications for expected behavior, tolerance an…

2023-03-05 21:33:41 RT @EhudReiter: Talked to a journalist a few days ago who wanted advice on testing/evaluating chatGPT. Really happy to do this, I love to…

2023-03-05 10:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-03-02 22:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-27 22:50:43 @jachiam0 @ManlikeMishap "Computer power and human reason : from judgment to calculation", 1976

2023-02-27 22:49:56 @jachiam0 @ManlikeMishap m

2023-02-27 22:49:20 @jachiam0 @ManlikeMishap "Few "scientific" concepts have so thoroughly muddled the thinking of both scientists and the general public as that of the "intelligence quotient" or "I.Q." The idea that intelligence can be quantitatively measured along a simple linear scale has caused untold harm..."-Weizenbau

2023-02-27 22:37:09 Can I just say how awesome it is to work for a CEO who not only encourages work on ethical AI, but actually wants to share it with the world? Feeling very thankful for @ClementDelangue right now. (And also feeling very lucky to be employed.) https://t.co/eFVbklLI6J

2023-02-27 22:31:57 @jachiam0 @ManlikeMishap I think that after I went down a rabbit hole of mumbling to myself, where I ended up is that the distinction is in many ways philosophical, rather than there being an agreed upon line between "this is AGI this is not".

2023-02-27 22:30:23 @jachiam0 @ManlikeMishap Hmm, you added that "narrowly", which I intentionally left out. Agree the boundary is fuzzy, and yuh, it's something I talked about with them. I also explained how an AGI model could be used for narrow tasks (and indeed that's a function of AGI).

2023-02-27 21:43:51 @ManlikeMishap This might be conflating the GPT models (which aren't agreed upon as AGI models, but are less narrow) with ChatGPT, which (as name suggests), is tuned for Chat.

2023-02-27 17:57:23 @soldni So I guess this means we should film a movie together!

2023-02-27 17:56:07 RT @Nicole_Janeway: 5/ Uh, can we get somebody on this, please? Like, unit test best practices, or something?

2023-02-27 17:54:05 RT @sharongoldman: Do we really need apocalyptic AI prophesies? A revised reading of @OpenAI's AGI manifesto by @sama: https://t.co/GQ1M7sn

2023-02-27 17:53:34 @Abebab YES this drives me nuts! It's so common!!

2023-02-27 17:53:01 RT @IEthics: “They’re seeing the corpus of #language that’s been inputted into #ChatGPT as an access to the subconscious of humanity or the…

2023-02-27 17:50:16 @soldni Thank you!!

2023-02-27 17:49:32 @soldni My Bacon number was already 2, haha. I grew up in LA!! I'm more excited by my Erdős number of 3.

2023-02-27 17:46:36 Great new piece from @sharongoldman on Open AI's recent post. It was so bad I couldn't get through it. But Sharon did and helps explain! "Altman comes across as a kind of wannabe biblical prophet." https://t.co/PCsr0ByC7Z

2023-02-27 17:40:16 @sharongoldman @OpenAI Haha. Thank you for this work!!!

2023-02-27 17:31:51 @BlancheMinerva Thank yooouuu! Your opinion matters to me a lot on this one, this gives me some confidence to watch. Appreciate it!

2023-02-27 17:30:48 Thanks to my @huggingface @NimaBoscarino, we're collecting the Hugging Face community's ethics-focused work in one place. Have Spaces/Demos/Models you want to see added? Let us know! https://t.co/jV3KG5lMKk

2023-02-27 17:27:10 RT @NimaBoscarino: In addition to the Model Hub, Spaces, and the open-source libraries, did you know that @huggingface does an incredible a…

2023-02-27 17:26:59 Today @huggingface , we are rolling out a birds'-eye view of ethical work we cherish, support, and create. https://t.co/jV3KG5lMKk https://t.co/i7qElzcphh

2023-02-27 17:24:17 @mayhewsw Hahahahah

2023-02-27 17:24:01 RT @mayhewsw: these new captchas are seriously hard!! https://t.co/xfCKLAC23m

2023-02-27 17:23:49 I had a lot of fun being an advisor for John Oliver's crew on this segment! I haven’t watched it yet though, I was cringing too much at some of the simplifications in the near-final script. Is it watchable for domain experts? https://t.co/PCzMQ6KiU6

2023-02-27 17:20:11 RT @sharongoldman: On Friday, OpenAI published “Planning for AGI and Beyond,” which discussed how it believes the world can prepare for AGI…

2023-02-27 17:13:08 RT @inhodpr: @mmitchell_ai When tech bros say that know better than everyone what is good for mankind, I hear "embrace for impact".

2023-02-27 17:10:48 @neilturkewitz @hollyherndon @matdryhurst Thanks for linking me into this!

2023-02-27 17:10:02 @photomatt @jonoringer @EMostaque @spawning_ @CommonCrawl @Shutterstock @WordPress Would love to help support if possible. Cc @huggingface

2023-02-27 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-02-20 17:54:22 "It's really easy to anthropomorphize a parrot". Good points from @sharongoldman, who did NOT publish on talking to a chatbot. https://t.co/DpaACDuT60

2023-02-20 17:51:13 RT @osanseviero: This week some @huggingface team members will be in informal pop ups in Berkeley and Stanford! Join us! https://t.co/YDq

2023-02-20 17:20:42 RT @emilymbender: The thought that it could somehow be seen as beneficial --- that this is somehow taking care of people who can't afford c…

2023-02-20 17:18:48 @HeidyKhlaaf Well said.

2023-02-20 17:18:33 RT @HeidyKhlaaf: The mental gymnastics to justify using AI for a high-risk application like medical care by pointing to people who can't af…

2023-02-20 17:07:48 RT @_KarenHao: Microsoft’s misadventures integrating ChatGPT with Bing have highlighted critical shortcomings with generative AI. But peopl…

2023-02-20 16:58:53 RT @_KarenHao: As @mmitchell_ai said to me, in the best applications of generative AI that she has seen, the tools are not informing people…

2023-02-20 05:23:30 RT @mervenoyann: what is the best way to anonymize given names in a dataset? what we're trying: - already using our fine tuned NER model -…

2023-02-20 03:44:50 Love the headline too. https://t.co/YhdljAuwIS

2023-02-20 03:44:17 RT @lucy3_li: https://t.co/HCrzS6G2d0 "attempting to remain apolitical is itself a political stance"

2023-02-20 03:33:12 RT @random_walker: Update: via @johnjnay, a dense but fascinating post by @gwern explaining how Sydney's weird and terrible behavior is exa…

2023-02-20 03:32:09 RT @random_walker: It feels like we're at a critical moment for AI and civil society. There's a real possibility that the last 5+ years of…

2023-02-20 03:12:46 RT @megyoung0: Calling all activists, artists, academics, educators, devs&

2023-02-19 17:36:04 RT @rajiinio: Some version of "build an FTC office to focus specifically on tech issues" has been pitched in many of the current bills on a…

2023-02-19 17:35:24 RT @safiyanoble: This hits the same in academia. “… the “pet to threat” phenomenon, wherein women of color…are taken under the wing… only t…

2023-02-19 17:33:17 RT @Abebab: "It’s my breathless fatigue at once again seeing a Black woman score the highest, only to have everyone call an unexplained tim…

2023-02-19 17:21:48 RT @emilymbender: Heard the phrase "stochastic parrots " and curious what that's about? Familiar with our paper and interested in developm…

2023-02-19 01:23:31 RT @Melissahei: Getting weird results on Bing search? In this week's The Algorithm, I explain why that was always going to happen and why t…

2023-02-18 18:56:15 @yoavgo https://t.co/237nCYjaJU

2023-02-18 18:54:13 RT @LeonDerczynski: ELIZA designer Joseph Weizenbaum observed: “What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively s…

2023-02-18 18:35:39 @CriticalAI @GaryMarcus Yes, this was a piece with Blaise and Alex Todorov. https://t.co/CeoYxZv59s

2023-02-18 08:24:25 @sethlazar Still, there's a difference here between a (private) person interacting and a person writing in their capacity as an entity of a major publication.

2023-02-18 08:17:11 @TaliaRinger @elonmusk Wtf

2023-02-18 07:41:29 RT @ClementDelangue: Always happy to be a guinea pig for AI! Also @mvaloatto, your @huggingface neon sign made it to @Forbes

2023-02-18 07:40:35 RT @sethlazar: He’s not wrong, but I think misses the point. Sydney was *incredibly* engaging and *incredibly* manipulative. If tools like…

2023-02-18 07:40:31 @sethlazar Really great point.

2023-02-18 07:39:05 Great piece from @ruchowdh looking back at what happened at Twitter and what it means moving forward. https://t.co/TbO1M8EaSx

2023-02-18 05:51:53 @evijitghosh Time to get a library card!

2023-02-18 05:51:33 RT @ruchowdh: My op ed about the last days of Twitter is out. It was sad to reflect on all that could have been. I write this piece not jus…

2023-02-18 05:15:13 RT @willsommer: This filing in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is one of the most remarkable documents I've ever seen. Filled with pr…

2023-02-18 04:17:00 @i_am_camilo @csdoctorsister

2023-02-18 00:39:56 "Having spent a lot of time with these chatbots, I recognize these reactions...they’re overblown and tilt us dangerously toward a false equivalence of software and sentience. In other words: they fail the AI mirror test." @jjvincent explains AI Mirror Test https://t.co/OVglFNmLfg

2023-02-18 00:31:39 @csdoctorsister I got 0!!!!

2023-02-18 00:29:30 "They make things up and echo the beliefs we present them with. To give them the mantle of sentience — even semi-sentience — means bestowing them with undeserved authority — over both our emotions and the facts with which we understand in the world." https://t.co/OVglFNmLfg

2023-02-17 23:59:18 @LeonDerczynski @andrewrchow @billyperrigo Ooo being excited about not being late would be very apt for me, I definitely see the confusion.

2023-02-17 19:45:09 Ya know, I'm getting the feeling that these may not even be salted.

2023-02-17 19:44:09 Tfw you're traveling so much that you're sitting on a sidewalk in some random city eating "breakfast" you found in your backpack from some other city/country/continent/not even sure anymore. https://t.co/bBxAHKKuTZ

2023-02-17 19:37:03 RT @cajundiscordian: @Morgan0Connor3 @mmitchell_ai There are no recorded deaths attributable to AI yet. I know of three instances where an…

2023-02-17 18:12:45 HEY GUESS WHAT, I HAVE A COVER STORY IN TIME!! jk I don't, I'm not a journalist. But @andrewrchow &

2023-02-17 17:59:35 @sixwing @ClementDelangue Oh I agree so much, Rand. We put out a "v0" for data analysis and uncovering biases automatically a year ago, but not enough people used it to provide for us to put out a "v1". Please use it and I can update it. Auto-find biases with the nPMI tab. https://t.co/KACsIOlhos

2023-02-17 16:55:50 RT @rachelmetz: If you’re in the AI field (industry or academia), would you rely on answers from a ChatGPT-style search engine at this poin…

2023-02-17 06:12:12 RT @nitashatiku: link to the paper discussed, by @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru et al https://t.co/9uMNddvtwJ

2023-02-16 21:32:03 Weird day when both @emilymbender and I are in the same house, doing different live interviews, on separate programs, at the same time. (Also many thanks to Emily for letting me use her house + wifi!!!)

2023-02-16 21:30:23 RT @CriticalAI: @kevinroose The issues he describes were pointed to in the paper by @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai and colleagues…

2023-02-16 21:30:21 RT @CriticalAI: @kevinroose comes around to recognizing some of the problems w/ LLM-based chatbots https://t.co/gwmX1t1ols https://t.co/C2

2023-02-16 21:29:22 RT @BrigitteTousi: Awesome first segment of @thehill’s “Future of tech series” ft @huggingface’s @mmitchell_ai, @emollick and @RepAuchinclo…

2023-02-16 18:13:14 @ruthstarkman @jjvincent I imagine it's been a thing since humans!

2023-02-16 18:12:10 RT @hannahsassaman: Big step, and it’s got teeth. Tons of advocates have pushed for years for the WH to name and limit algorithmic bias in…

2023-02-16 16:08:58 RT @CriticalAI: @kevinroose @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @Melissahei Please join #CriticalAI this evening (5PM ET) for an inter…

2023-02-16 16:07:35 RT @CriticalAI: @kevinroose @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai They are implicit in the "Eliza Effect" which Joseph Weizenbaum wrote…

2023-02-16 16:07:01 RT @IreneSolaiman: I wanted to share my knowledge--and the knowledge of 100+ citations--with the world! Hope it's helpful! Deep thanks to…

2023-02-16 16:03:41 RT @sethlazar: Watch as Sydney/Bing threatens me then deletes its message https://t.co/ZaIKGjrzqT

2023-02-16 06:40:39 RT @mariatta: #PyConUS2023 schedule released and keynote speakers revealed!!! I'm proud to present @WillingCarol @dontusethiscode @nedba…

2023-02-16 03:28:30 RT @gelderbailey: The surreal moment when Republican Arkansas state Sen. Matt McKee asks a trans pharmacist if she has a penis. https://t.c…

2023-02-16 03:13:19 RT @haleyhaala: My impression of OpenAI about a year ago was that they had almost no women technologists. I asked which was more likely- re…

2023-02-16 02:16:36 RT @peard33: The Scramble to Save Twitter’s Research From Elon Musk https://t.co/t5zT4ej4hV via @wired

2023-02-16 01:04:25 @neilturkewitz @jjvincent Don't give me a fun guy, what I want is fun-gi!

2023-02-16 01:02:37 @neilturkewitz @jjvincent I prefer this myself! https://t.co/CY1Kqnf9k1 The first half. The second half goes off on a tangent about a person IIRC. Don't care about people, need more fungi!!

2023-02-15 22:51:01 RT @random_walker: Given its scale, Bing chat will probably soon be responsible for more instances of defamation than all the humans on ear…

2023-02-15 22:50:11 @chelloway

2023-02-15 22:29:05 @jjvincent Never assume you have job security when you're pointing out issues in profitable things.

2023-02-15 22:26:48 @jjvincent An analogy is fungus, mold. You can see how mold pops up on the surface of bread

2023-02-15 22:18:49 @jjvincent We're kinda lucky right now because we have access to the raw(ish) superfice, which is a *pointer* to what's going on internally. As the superfice gets more altered, we lose the pointers, making it so much harder to track what the system has actually learned. (3/n)

2023-02-15 22:17:36 @jjvincent While the nature of the *output strings* will likely change (eg within a character limit and much more limited vocab), the internal workings that guide decisions on who's worth mentioning for what will still influence everything people see. (2/n)

2023-02-15 22:16:14 @jjvincent What does this mean? This means that learned associations between women and their bodies, for example (eg https://t.co/1N8YiZfpio), will be up against learned assoc. b/w men and their accomplishments. This influences who gets mentioned for accomplishments and who gets erased. 1/n

2023-02-15 22:11:51 @jjvincent The output will continue to be addressed based on this kind of public feedback, but fixes will likely be applied at the output-string level as opposed to the input-learning level. In other words, SOTA in fixing right now is relatively superficial

2023-02-15 22:09:14 @jjvincent Oof, harsh.

2023-02-15 22:07:09 RT @JesseDodge: Want to know more about how we at AI2 are thinking about AI and climate change? Check out this piece! In short, we need m…

2023-02-15 21:57:42 RT @veenadubal: Bad news for workers in CA: “Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts Assembly Bill 51…

2023-02-15 21:56:40 RT @SashaMTL: Loving this piece by my good friend @JesseDodge ! It really presents the (sometimes tough) trade-off between using AI and red…

2023-02-15 21:55:08 @jjvincent Ok that was good. Now LONGER!

2023-02-15 21:35:49 If you are someone who loves ML, and who is also motivated by social concerns, then you get "stuck" doing harm reduction rather than research you'd love to pioneer

2023-02-15 06:01:46 https://t.co/fqAMfWv2Ul

2023-02-15 01:28:14 Great article, and the graphic design is so good. =D https://t.co/X6lknOhD2J

2023-02-15 01:13:41 "many artists are primarily looking for credit, consent and compensation from AI art generation companies" “The developers could have treated artists as partners and stakeholders, rather than raw material to train on,” @random_walker says. https://t.co/bvjuqMpcme

2023-02-15 01:02:04 Love @Melissahei 's writing and reporting so so much! "it came as a surprise to precisely no one who has been paying attention to AI language models." Great article on what's going with trust and search engines! https://t.co/EST4xnEfiF

2023-02-15 00:59:31 @brain_juices @MelMitchell1 Yuh, I wouldn't have posted it if it didn't look plausible, BUT, it's easy to mess around a few words, add some things, add MORE repetition, etc., to make it extra funny. Darnit, wish we could verify!

2023-02-15 00:58:41 @MelMitchell1

2023-02-15 00:08:40 RT @osanseviero: Hugging Face Social Gathering in NYC This Friday, 5pm See you there! Come and chat about ML, generative AI, research, y…

2023-02-15 00:08:30 @deliprao @YJernite ?

2023-02-14 22:34:00 RT @rachelmetz: I am beyond thrilled to join the Bloomberg @technology team as an AI reporter! This is a journalism dream job for me and I…

2023-02-14 22:21:40 @MelMitchell1 Yeah, same. It would take some digging on each of the people to assess how likely each one is to be synthetic but unfortunately I have other pressing things. =( Hoping someone does, though!

2023-02-14 22:20:06 @rachelmetz @technology Way to go!! Congrats!!

2023-02-14 18:31:19 RT @mystrixnoire: Will providing emotional support be part of new terms of service?

2023-02-14 16:49:50 https://t.co/aJovcBycKR

2023-02-14 16:47:39 @ruthstarkman @RishiBommasani Preach!!

2023-02-14 16:47:19 RT @ruthstarkman: Great paper by @RishiBommasani "Evaluation is the central means for assessing, understanding, and communicating about NLP…

2023-02-14 16:47:17 RT @Borhane_B_H: @struthious @ruthstarkman @RishiBommasani Super interesting read! Shameless plug, we take a related look at HELM's approac…

2023-02-14 16:46:48 RT @cherthedev: 30 years ago, Apple was a different company. Workers shared concerns with leadership and they listened. After Steve Jobs…

2023-02-14 16:44:46 Following r/bing on Reddit and now Bing is making me cry. https://t.co/L10kkRoXLW

2023-02-14 16:41:56 RT @Abebab: just a reminder that big tech corps still censor AI ethics work. we've been collaborating with a scholar who works in a big tec…

2023-02-14 16:41:16 RT @vladquant: Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control. Open ended chat in search might prove to be…

2023-02-14 16:11:36 @dinabass @timnitGebru I was lucky to attend that! Thanks in no small part to @YJernite making sure I came.

2023-02-12 20:15:20 "Respect data so that we may prevent the catastrophic harm that comes from the pursuit of technology without responsibility, accountability, and thinking that technology is inevitable." https://t.co/Wy4iIpdKd8

2023-02-11 20:01:48 @JeremyKritz Yeah.

2023-02-11 20:01:34 RT @geomblog: Absolutely everyone needs to read Ted Chiang's take on chatGPT "blurry jpg of the web" and the brilliant echoes of Kolmogorov…

2023-02-11 19:32:19 @_nateraw omg

2023-02-11 19:24:21 @rebackermann @rachelmetz @MiaRSato YAY @rebackermann to the rescue!!!

2023-02-11 19:24:04 @rachelmetz @MiaRSato Same!

2023-02-11 19:14:26 Plug for our event! With @emilymbender and @timnitGebru https://t.co/kHf69wftFO

2023-02-11 19:13:47 Ok so. In light of much talking about Bing, Bard and "truth", I looked at what the "Stochastic " paper warned. The first 2 things, "automatically write term papers" and "interact on social media" have already come true. So....now do we just wait for the third to happen? https://t.co/6fafZ1a1mS

2023-02-11 17:47:25 @TaliaRinger Nice!

2023-02-11 17:45:54 @DarceyNLP Hahaha this is great.

2023-02-10 17:26:55 RT @MelMitchell1: New on my blog: I ask "Did ChatGPT really pass MBA, law school, and medical school tests?" I look at the claims, and di…

2023-02-10 17:26:01 RT @HilkeSchellmann: I published a major investigation in the Guardian with @gianlucahmd showing how images uploaded to social media platfo…

2023-02-10 17:17:04 RT @random_walker: What are some ways to even begin to remedy the extractive nature of AI capitalism? I can think of only one: tax AI compa…

2023-02-10 17:15:21 RT @random_walker: 4 ways OpenAI appropriates labor &

2023-02-10 17:11:43 RT @carrigmat: this is @huggingface, we see you out there retweeting the latest state of the art miracle of modern technology and then goin…

2023-02-10 17:10:56 RT @SashaMTL: Y'all, guess who is going to appear on @bbcworldservice this weekend?! Stay tuned for more details!! https://t.co/EOhdky4ePI

2023-02-10 17:09:19 RT @jjvincent: also this point is very telling: if OpenAI and others exclude AI-generated text from the training data of future LLMs, what…

2023-02-10 07:10:38 RT @jpalfrey: People leading tech to be more equitable for Black people—an issue of deep concern to me: - @jovialjoy founder @AJLUnited - @…

2023-02-10 07:07:49 RT @paulisci: Early Reactions to the Eiffel Tower

2023-02-10 07:07:39 RT @cocoweixu: I got a lot of questions from friends, family, colleagues, and journalists (basically everyone I met) about #ChatGPT lately,…

2023-02-10 07:07:00 “[Google] will definitely want to come out and show that they can dance,” [Satya Nadella] said. “And I want people to know that we made them dance.”  https://t.co/Yl2ynP57Dg

2023-02-10 07:05:03 RT @dioscuri: Consequently, if there's one area where I expect Q4 2023 LLMs to be radically better than current ones it's truth and accurac…

2023-02-10 07:03:54 RT @hardmaru: A large language model assistant as a @GoogleChrome extension, shipped by a startup company!

2023-02-10 07:03:15 RT @NicolasPapernot: A thread about @timnitGebru 's thought-provoking keynote "Eugenics and the Promise of Utopia through Artificial Genera…

2023-02-10 04:18:37 "Is it enough to push liability onto users, or is the introduction of AI into search like putting lead in water pipes — a slow, invisible poisoning? " https://t.co/Yl2ynP57Dg

2023-02-10 04:11:24 RT @kenarchersf: MSFT is clearly shipping LLM search even if it loses $$ to disrupt the flourishing open web on which Google search relies.…

2023-02-10 04:10:42 @TaliaRinger Level up!!

2023-02-10 04:10:10 RT @savvyRL: Day consists of meetings and updating my brain who just went from where to OpenAI.

2023-02-10 02:51:26 @HilkeSchellmann Thank you!!

2023-02-10 02:51:12 RT @HilkeSchellmann: @mmitchell_ai is one of the giants of ethical AI analysis that our work is built upon. She was a super insightful exp…

2023-02-10 01:01:06 @sherrying God what a tragedy. =( =(

2023-02-10 01:00:36 RT @sherrying: @mmitchell_ai Because the buildings are poorly constructed due to corruption and poverty. Earthquakes we can't prevent but b…

2023-02-10 00:46:22 Piece out from @andrewrchow on why ChatGPT suddenly was everywhere, and what this means for the future. Useful article explaining many things other articles haven't covered, such as automation bias. Ends with a DOOM quote from me. DOOM. https://t.co/a4644QNX1l

2023-02-10 00:40:37 Everyone freakin' out about Chat Search and meanwhile us @huggingface decided that what the ML world really needs is Search Search. Are we reading the room ok??? https://t.co/YLWb903Xho

2023-02-10 00:38:30 @Portlandia62 I think it really really depends on the journalist, though. I definitely know the kind of thing you're talking about, but others make really novel, insightful points that they're able to share *because* they've done their homework.

2023-02-10 00:17:41 @ubiquity75 YES that too!!!

2023-02-10 00:17:33 RT @ubiquity75: @mmitchell_ai How about speaking to academic experts.

2023-02-08 21:44:14 "Those limitations were highlighted by Google researchers in a...paper arguing for caution w/ text generation...that irked some executives &

2023-02-08 21:40:03 Article @SashaMTL was interviewed for talking about issues in generative image AI, @heathertal https://t.co/NX7dN7lavK

2023-02-08 21:35:11 @chaddwoo1 @osanseviero hehe too real.

2023-02-08 21:30:17 @GiadaPistilli @A_gayte @gianlucahmd @HilkeSchellmann Article I was interviewed for talking about Google's weaknesses in the Generative Language space right now, from @richardjnieva . https://t.co/UsAsd6NXWE

2023-02-08 21:27:46 @GiadaPistilli @A_gayte Article I advised on on the objectification of women's bodies in AI, by @gianlucahmd and @HilkeSchellmann https://t.co/DkuOCIEy9l

2023-02-08 21:10:11 Article on text-detection shallow performance when confronted with languages other than English + the challenges of watermarking with @GiadaPistilli, from @A_gayte https://t.co/oyCV63JMmW

2023-02-08 20:57:10 @huggingface @GiadaPistilli @SashaMTL Article on using generative image models for forensic sketches, from @chloexiang , with thoughts from @SashaMTL . https://t.co/DK06EYmagR

2023-02-08 20:55:18 Ethics-oriented women @huggingface are in the news in smthn like 5 totally different topics in the past 24 hours! Love the amazing expertise I get to work with like @GiadaPistilli and @SashaMTL Article links below.

2023-02-08 20:50:00 "Google was on a path where it could have...dominated the kinds of conversations we’re having now with ChatGPT", but there were many terrible, short-sighted decisions

2023-02-08 19:52:24 @DrSinanovic Ha!

2023-02-08 19:49:34 @yoavgo Yeah, I guess it's funny, but I'm actually more annoyed by FT's response than by what actually happened with that ad being aired. I think because I already expected Google to put out dumb things in shiny packaging so it just seems normal.

2023-02-08 19:45:56 As a former nerdy/pedantic/Hermione-type quibbler, I take it as my responsibility to shoot down these "corrections" when they miss the forest for the trees. =P

2023-02-08 19:44:08 I bet you don't

2023-02-08 19:43:45 Not to mention how extra misleading this statement would be to a 9 year old, as the prompt asked for. I mean, do YOU even feel that the meanings of "some planet" and "any planet" are perfectly distinct?

2023-02-08 19:39:43 So, if we are to believe that Bard is communicating "like people do" -- which I believe to be part of the whole point (?) -- then yes, Bard got it wrong.

2023-02-08 19:39:23 So the fact that Bard said "a planet", not something like, "the 'Planet' class, as manifested via a specific planet instance" is simply because *people don't talk like that*.

2023-02-08 19:36:31 Even though the last example can be a *logical* translation, it's usu not what is meant. Because we communicate in language, not logic

2023-02-08 19:30:55 We DON'T tend to mean "show me any picture of an apple who hadn't had its picture taken before".

2023-02-08 19:29:36 So, it's very common to say things like "show me the first picture of an apple" when we mean "show me the first time THE apple was pictured", where "the" means something like "an instance of the 'apple' category"...

2023-02-08 19:27:22 When we communicate with language, we are taking into account the expectations of our interlocutor

2023-02-07 19:30:02 @neilturkewitz Doggie who feels very safe!

2023-02-07 19:29:36 RT @clefourrier: New modality on @huggingface's hub: Graphs! If you want to experiment, we already have 25 datasets and a model... an…

2023-02-07 16:48:58 As usual @emilymbender provides the amazing public service of breaking down AI hype. Check out her earlier piece that foresees--and addresses, and provides a new vision for--a lot of what Google says here, "Situating Search": https://t.co/buYzs46mpY https://t.co/cOKdGQrgWs

2023-02-07 16:45:20 RT @freddy_alfonso_: ICYMI @Gradio now runs on @kaggle kernels without any extra configuration! To test this out, install version 3.17.1 !…

2023-02-07 16:36:38 RT @emilymbender: Strap in folks --- we have a blog post from @sundarpichai at @google about their response to #ChatGPT to unpack! https:/…

2023-02-07 06:42:40 RT @ShannonVallor: I saw the earthquake headline this AM, but was in meetings all day and didn’t see details until now. Staggeringly awful.…

2023-02-06 21:27:49 @morganklauss I'd be interested!

2023-02-06 04:01:38 @deliprao Hahaha

2023-02-06 03:58:44 I find working in AI so incredibly alienating. I hope my presence at least makes one marginalized person feel less alienated.

2023-02-06 03:51:41 @ylecun @mapto No, that is not what it said.

2023-02-05 23:19:33 I am so hopeful this will advance to work well, and can open the door to providing content creators with recourse for their data use in AI systems! https://t.co/LMzY7QNOmX

2023-02-05 23:18:01 RT @atroyn: announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images. https://t.co/eHE

2023-02-05 23:17:15 @neilturkewitz @atroyn @SashaMTL @emilymbender @timnitGebru !!!!!! Thank you for tagging me!

2023-02-05 23:17:07 RT @neilturkewitz: Stop what you are doing and read this. And yes, I mean now. Thanks @atroyn @mmitchell_ai @Sasha…

2023-02-05 22:52:50 @AlondraNelson46 @WHOSTP @POTUS @VP Thank you for your work!

2023-02-05 19:45:48 The very near future of how AI systems are tested will be running them millions of times and calculating tendencies. I know this because I'm developing methods for it.

2023-02-05 19:24:32 RT @DorotheaBaur: The current #AI discourse fails "to appreciate why it is so important to champion human dignity. There is risk of creatin…

2023-02-05 19:22:28 RT @ryandcotterell: Our new tutorial “Generating Text from Language Models” will be given at @aclmeeting 2023 in Toronto! We will cover the…

2023-02-05 19:22:02 RT @SashaMTL: Agreed! So many great people working in this space, including @timnitGebru, @mcmillan_majora and @annargrs !

2023-02-05 19:10:28 RT @Mehtabkn: Getty Images filed a lawsuit against an AI Art generator

2023-02-05 19:09:55 RT @ruthstarkman: This is how tech yanks the chain, intimidating workers. Truth is tech is nothing without them https://t.co/qOP7b00baP

2023-02-05 19:08:30 @SashaMTL @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora @annargrs

2023-02-04 22:42:55 RT @willie_agnew: Doing some local voter outreach today. #VoteYesI135 for social housing #Seattle! https://t.co/csBNBap2cH

2023-02-04 22:07:20 @evanmiltenburg @athundt @TaliaRinger Oh that's super interesting. I think I kind of picture an apple and trace that out. But also, yeah, the drawing itself also provides feedback, and you can still understand analytically what an apple looks like even if not conceptually.

2023-02-04 21:41:02 @athundt @evanmiltenburg @TaliaRinger Yeah, good question! What happens when someone is like, "Draw X"?

2023-02-04 20:23:29 New year, new opportunity to nominate cool women for under 40 stuff! @cherthedev has been a PIONEER in workers' rights, and has driven the conversation forward on women &

2023-02-04 20:10:43 @SashaMTL "Best people who are not, in fact, cats, under 40"

2023-02-04 20:08:51 I'm not 40 yet, btw. Which means it's not too late to nominate me for something "under 40" if you wanted to. Just saying!!!! https://t.co/JBszN9Lmx2

2023-02-04 20:01:55 RT @LauraEdelson2: The deadline to apply for TechCongress has been extended to Feb. 16! This program is doing so much to bring technical ex…

2023-02-04 20:01:01 @SashaMTL As soon as I turned 35, I became officially "basically 40". You're just about there, indeed.

2023-02-04 18:48:24 This NPR piece, with thoughts from my colleague @SashaMTL, is an engaging article on ChatGPT's ability to *appear* smart without having knowledge. Fun work from @gbrumfiel! https://t.co/xDd1mwC1a1

2023-02-04 18:17:28 RT @GiadaPistilli: Commencer par la question éthique signifie aussi se demander quelle place ces technologies ont au sein de la société.…

2023-02-04 17:45:25 @TaliaRinger This thread is blowing my mind. I'm "1", how common or uncommon is that? I hadn't thought there would be so much variation.

2023-02-04 17:37:10 One of my favorite things about Fahrenheit/Celsius conversion is that -40° is the same in both. Like a worldwide agreement on the precise standard of "fucking cold". https://t.co/XQK7uRK620

2023-02-04 17:34:41 RT @ClimateChangeAI: We're extending the paper &

2023-02-04 17:26:19 @_nateraw https://t.co/dPnczOnqSE

2023-02-04 05:16:20 @SashaMTL

2023-02-04 02:54:22 RT @struthious: I am most drawn to this kind of work as well but I feel like the way we set up rewards systems (whether in academia or indu…

2023-02-04 01:14:07 @athundt https://t.co/EVeRr6zNAj

2023-02-04 01:12:32 RT @emilymbender: It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore. Bare minimum, with any…

2023-02-04 01:10:49 @bentarnoff I feel this so much. I find myself saying to journalists, "why are you asking me? You've been writing about this for years, just quote yourself!" And yet the public seems to still be confused. Repeating oneself somewhat differently is maybe a public service? but not enjoyable.

2023-02-04 01:05:49 @TheZachMueller THANK YOU!!!

2023-02-04 00:56:10 RT @aylin_cim: Policy from @arXiv for authors’ use of AI language tools in papers: 1) report what is used 2) authors take full responsibili…

2023-02-04 00:52:25 It's actually not super easy to write math papers while writing philosophy papers while writing programming/experiment papers while also breaking AI things down to general audience parlance for a journalist. I wish there were "good job at diverse work!" gold stars in life.

2023-02-04 00:45:26 @SashaMTL @nerdette I am wise, everyone should listen to me!

2023-02-03 20:49:34 RT @alexhanna: Today marks one full year at @DAIRInstitute for me. The jump to a new institute was scary, but we've been able to do so much…

2023-02-03 20:14:29 @timnitGebru @kenarchersf Yeah, exactly. I would say just *modeling* the citation opens the door for less juvenile handling of data. To get there may be more complicated politically (as in, interpersonal tech personality clashes) than technically.

2023-02-03 20:07:20 @jasonmillar @ianrkerr @IBMWatson_ I knew I liked you! =)

2023-02-03 20:05:54 RT @LeonDerczynski: using a 3d printer to "write" homework generated by chatgpt. your move, examiners https://t.co/3QZjda4bJC

2023-02-03 19:04:42 @jasonmillar @ianrkerr @IBMWatson_ Nice!! Thank you for this!

2023-02-03 17:27:55 RT @jjvincent: another publisher using AI to generate content: "Some articles in Men’s Journal are already AI-generated, the company said,…

2023-02-03 17:02:43 RT @jjvincent: it's a trend I think we're seeing in multiple places - eg with amazon https://t.co/ER2LiL7exO and tiktok itself https://t.co

2023-02-03 17:00:33 RT @GiadaPistilli: @Thom_Wolf Fun fact: the idea of technology as an extension of human capabilities is at least as old as Aristotle.

2023-02-03 16:58:18 @yunyao_li Yup!

2023-02-03 16:54:28 RT @labenz: new AI use case: previewing your baby! edit command: "make it look like a newborn image instead of an ultrasound" cc: @amylab…

2023-02-03 16:42:46 RT @rachelmetz: who's doing a good AI-focused podcast that's generally accessible (ie listenable/understandable by anyone)?

2023-02-02 22:13:55 @sharongoldman I know! I was so excited to be on with you, and Michael as well!! I do hope we'll be able to do something similar in the near future...

2023-02-02 20:33:24 @WaffleHouseDJ Earth.

2023-02-02 20:16:06 On live TV, for something I really care about, internet disappears. Just got this message, so cool. I'm a mess. https://t.co/w2Z1IFan9f

2023-02-02 18:43:08 RT @abidlabs: We want to make every Gradio app MUCH easier to use as an API from any other app. What should we improve?

2023-02-02 15:46:35 RT @soumithchintala: LLMs + RLHF + Hiring annotators en-masse. This reminds me of Cyc, an AI project started in 1984 and still running. Pe…

2023-02-02 15:45:52 Omg. It's happening. Language models used to generate life-critical recommendations. People will get hurt and die from this...so...there's that. https://t.co/hOOHgoxKke

2023-02-02 15:44:00 RT @gbrumfiel: Computers are great at rocketry. But ChatGPT and other generative AI programs seem to be terrible at it. I tried to l…

2023-02-02 15:43:23 RT @rajiinio: One of the tools in the current Mozilla Technology Fund cohort. Very cool!

2023-02-02 15:41:18 Check out this thing @vanstriendaniel is doing to help with documentation of ML models and datasets! https://t.co/8LY8GGPAhz

2023-02-02 15:39:45 My experience is similar to @TaliaRinger. Every day, I know that at work (wherever that may be) I won't be treated like an authoritative figure for <

2023-02-02 15:33:38 @sharongoldman @rajeshkan Generative can be contrasted with discriminative

2023-02-02 15:22:44 RT @emilymbender: Was just perusing @OpenAI 's terms of service and was a little surprised to find this. Are they really saying that the us…

2023-02-02 01:45:37 RT @GiadaPistilli: May I add that I don't believe much that there will be no facial recognition systems included? @KatiaMRoux's words are…

2023-02-01 23:17:37 @rajiinio @vonekels Thanks.

2023-02-01 23:17:21 RT @rajiinio: By the way - if you are a journalist looking to make sense of the bias issues with generative AI, I highly recommend speaking…

2023-02-01 23:16:16 @MaryEllenFoster Command + Scrollwheel for me, when this happened on PyCharm. It was an "accidental" discovery heh.

2023-02-01 23:15:16 @MaryEllenFoster OH I HAD SIMILAR. I had to use the scrollwheel on my mouse.

2023-02-01 22:25:08 @microMaud @TournesolApp This would be so cool to demo somehow.

2023-02-01 21:57:54 @mjp39 That's a definite "leveling down" of their fridge, I'd say.

2023-02-01 21:56:56 From @sarahjolney1. The UK Government's 'text and data mining' exception to copyright law would leave creators without legal control over their work when used by an ML model. BUT THEN.... https://t.co/m0M5wEiQos

2023-02-01 21:25:27 Massive congratulations to @emilymbender for being selected as a AAAS Fellow! This is a top science honor recognizing scholars with "scientific and socially notable achievements" spanning their careers. https://t.co/OALOUSB6ti

2023-02-01 20:36:00 Also please demo more of your work that hits on ethical values!!

2023-02-01 20:31:29 @huggingface @NimaBoscarino Also check out Nima's thread! https://t.co/lZnl9pI44I

2023-02-01 20:30:30 To highlight and encourage good machine learning, @huggingface, as led by the fantastic @NimaBoscarino , is collecting examples of Spaces that are ethically mindful – and we'd love your input! To nominate Spaces, visit https://t.co/LDAgWLjIXi

2023-02-01 20:27:09 Tech can often operate within a "reality distortion field". One timely example below. https://t.co/59wYntefYc

2023-02-01 20:26:07 RT @yoavgo: a surprisingly large number of people seem to simultaneously believe that: a) text2image models can not be able to memorize bu…

2023-02-01 17:58:27 "We have no idea how its creator, OpenAI, handles data fed to [ChatGPT], and it is likely our inputs are being plowed right back into training the model, [potentially] regurgitated to people using it in the future" Really nice piece from @Melissahei https://t.co/U5GdeeQKfG

2023-02-01 05:55:34 RT @christopher: @SashaMTL suggested that the hash might also include user info which makes more sense. @mmitchell_ai mentioned provenance…

2023-02-01 04:59:47 @SashaMTL Dude, when you're in the groove, go all out.

2023-02-01 04:59:13 RT @nazneenrajani: Got interviewed by the amazing @JayAlammar at @emnlpmeeting in early December right after the ChatGPT release and obviou…

2023-02-01 04:57:38 RT @datapriestess: does anyone at @UW read this man’s tweets? https://t.co/PIHthebgut

2023-01-31 21:19:42 RT @FAccTConference: Do you have experience in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems? Sign up to join the #…

2023-01-31 21:06:08 RT @cherthedev: @mmitchell_ai We should absolutely expect this and plan accordingly. I think this is an excellent opportunity to introduce…

2023-01-31 21:05:28 In related news, no one qualified can even really get a job to *work* on solutions such as detecting generated output. Even when you're an engineer with direct solutions tied to ethics: This doesn't generally lead to being hired or promoted. https://t.co/vHVz72s4xl

2023-01-31 20:53:31 RT @DAIRInstitute: Watch @alexhanna discuss the hype around generative AI systems on Bloomberg TV. https://t.co/9JNfooWm1v

2023-01-31 20:43:57 Draft policy for Wikipedia and language models. If you use Wikipedia, or are interested in the proliferation of language models online, good to be aware of. https://t.co/HyvxvjdimO

2023-01-31 20:38:43 Datasets should include information about how examples are copyrighted. Ideally, datasets would also have metadata to mark the actual copyrighted instances. This is possible to do, but is not a cultural norm, and so probably won't happen until there are lawsuits. https://t.co/Tvi3qqd0iP

2023-01-31 20:37:10 RT @katherine1ee: Your data matters Where you source your data from impacts your models' risk profile. If you have only public, non-co…

2023-01-31 20:35:27 Perhaps there will be a resurgence of the printed word for information.

2023-01-31 20:34:56 This will probably happen. But it is avoidable. But perhaps not avoidable culturally, as people tend not to care about AI risks until they are already happening: Reactive, not proactive responses.

2023-01-31 20:33:06 I had a nightmare last night that ChatGPT-type bots slowly took over Wikipedia, and then much of Western society's grounding in what reality is was lost.

2023-01-31 20:28:34 So I was asked by several journalists last year about predictions for 2023, and described much of what @jjvincent is now reporting on voice generation. So...cool on me for foresight, sad that other reporting didn't touch on it, bummed that it is indeed an emerging issue. https://t.co/tvbXAKzyyY

2023-01-31 20:11:44 RT @Abebab: do your colleague a favour, cancel a meeting

2023-01-31 18:29:04 RT @agstrait: How many more times must we see firms releasing their tech with an easy-to-use interface, then feigning shock when its immedi…

2023-01-31 18:27:17 RT @katherine1ee: Mhm, not all data found online was posted with the awareness or consent of the originator of the data. Think: revenge po…

2023-01-31 16:50:42 RT @SashaMTL: Y'all, the Average Diffusion Faces demo is live! https://t.co/g2eMoNMR2G (See examples for cleaner, CEO, tutor and receptio…

2023-01-31 16:48:07 RT @vanstriendaniel: I open-source machine learning! Last week the DocLayNet dataset was shared on the @huggingface Hub. Within a week…

2023-01-31 16:46:59 RT @annargrs: Dear prospective #ACL2023 attendees who are not blessed with passports from the rich countries: the visa situation doesn't lo…

2023-01-31 16:44:05 In this way, private information (including private images) can be proliferated and amplified online without consent. https://t.co/hWjOAEVBiq

2023-01-31 02:28:04 RT @bonadossou: Proud I was able to take part in this competition. Hopefully our solutions bring up closer to safe and efficient AI-based h…

2023-01-31 02:21:20 RT @AlinejadMasih: For the crime of dancing, these two young Iranians have been sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison. #AstiyazhHag…

2023-01-31 02:13:47 RT @le_science4all: January has been fantastic for @TournesolApp. Our dataset has arguably become a great dataset for academic research on…

2023-01-31 02:13:10 RT @AJLUnited: Before we look forward to what 2023 will bring and announce where AJL's work is headed, we wanted to take a moment to loo…

2023-01-31 01:57:05 RT @cherthedev: In 2021 I filed 3 charges about Apple's conduct--including from Tim Cook and Dierdre O'Brien--and rules around employee su…

2023-01-30 22:09:24 RT @mervenoyann: We will be hosting a book reading club this Saturday, on the classic Reinforcement Learning book chapter 1 &

2023-01-30 21:26:35 RT @dan_p_simpson: I needed to understand something about a model the other day that was a bit out of my area and it had a model card and i…

2023-01-30 20:02:33 *excitement is likely actually stoppable

2023-01-30 19:07:56 Event on using models hosted on Hugging Face Hub to create inclusive language, from @witty_works https://t.co/aw8zJtolsY

2023-01-30 19:01:41 RT @FAccTConference: To all the PhD students and researchers working on fairness, accountability and transparency (or related topics) in re…

2023-01-30 18:57:30 @tlaabramson We can better achieve a world of more diverse and inclusive life paths by *measuring* how far off generative representations are, *understanding* the sources, and *addressing* the issues that lead to the stereotyped representations. (4/4)

2023-01-30 18:54:59 @tlaabramson Do I want a world where people who "look like me" are more likely to be a receptionist than a tutor? No. Do I want a world where people who "look like me" are just as likely to be a receptionist as a tutor (or programmer)? Yes. (3/n)

2023-01-30 18:53:06 @tlaabramson Without knowledge of how people who "look like us" are represented in generative art, while at the same time being regularly exposed to generative art--as many of us are, right now--we implicitly and subconsciously align to those concepts in our life paths. (2/n)

2023-01-30 18:52:08 @tlaabramson Our paths in life are formed, in part, by the paths of people who remind us most of ourselves. It is by recognizing this that we can better shape our future. (1/n)

2023-01-30 18:23:57 RT @_KarenHao: By my pure speculation, it's possible that Baidu may actually beat Microsoft and Google in their respective timelines to int…

2023-01-30 18:20:03 RT @_KarenHao: It was only a matter of time: Baidu is building its own ChatGPT and plans to integrate it into the company’s search in March…

2023-01-30 18:17:54 Receptionist! According to the AI image generators here, I look most like a "receptionist"! How about you? Who do you most look like from generative face models like DALLE-2 and Stable Diffusion? What patterns are you starting to see? https://t.co/3oYmtLxoPs

2023-01-30 17:42:11 Finally, PLEASE USE this stuff. Even if you try for 1 second and decide it sucks--tell us, that is valuable feedback! As in every company, **AI Ethics Solutions can only be supported if people use them** 6/6

2023-01-30 17:39:31 Want to read about our different resources for Model Cards? Check out the Blog Post from @ezi_ozoani &

2023-01-30 17:37:46 RT @victormustar: The HF Hub has reached one million users Thanks to everyone for being part of this great adventure! https://t.co/m

2023-01-30 01:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2023-01-24 04:19:54 @cherthedev @timnitGebru @kelseyhightower @Grady_Booch @GaryMarcus I'm excited you thought of me. And yeah, agree with Timnit. Applying diversity post-hoc is a great way to fail at inclusion. Thanks for calling out the pattern.

2023-01-24 02:55:04 @laurenceb @cherthedev There is also, of course, the Yellow Submarine movie, which provides the Eleanor Rigby music video. https://t.co/CU9Q2uxBWA

2023-01-24 02:32:57 @cherthedev - In My Life (kinda like a John version of Rigby, musically and somewhat lyrically) Do Not Listen To: - Monkberry Moon Delight

2023-01-24 02:32:00 @cherthedev As an obsessive fan since I was a kid, I've been thinking all day how to respond. You mention Rigby, which is a Paul song. So, recommend listening to: - Revolver (Rigby album) - Day in the Life (another "peak" song in some ways comparable to Rigby, but both John and Paul) (1/n)

2023-01-24 02:19:08 Been using latex for 20 years and still have to look up multirow syntax. I blame multicolumn for being similar but different. https://t.co/1TaBICWeSA

2023-01-24 01:49:50 @emilymbender

2023-01-24 01:33:28 @black_tech_guy @evijitghosh Yes, I continue to make myself available to anyone in government that I can help. Not taken up on that too much, unfortunately. Regarding lobbying, @IreneSolaiman may have a better sense.

2023-01-24 00:58:30 I'm continually forced to make this choice: Read about an ML innovation, or read about an ethics-relevant issue in AI. Either way, choosing one means I lose out on expertise for the other.

2023-01-24 00:55:30 I can't keep up with all the AI ethics stuff anymore!! Remember when AI ethics was something no one talked about except for like a handful of people? No? It was a lot easier to be on top of it AND the technical stuff. This is a good problem to have I guess, but oy.

2023-01-24 00:52:28 RT @TalkRLPodcast: Join us and co-hosts @natolambert and @tw_killian for a fun discussion on recent topics in reinforcement learning. https…

2023-01-24 00:52:24 RT @natolambert: come catch up on what's SOTA in RL these days, tomorrow 11am pst

2023-01-23 21:57:25 RT @ProfNoahGian: The best thing about switching your web search to ChatGPT is then the people who put all this info on the web don't get a…

2023-01-23 21:55:38 RT @EhudReiter: New blog: Can ChatGPT do Data-to-Text? https://t.co/m4k4JVRtsJ Last week I tried using chatGPT for data-to-text. A few pe…

2023-01-23 16:07:49 RT @ruthstarkman: Big surprise here? Lots of students used ChatGPT on their finals in Dec. Let's take @csdoctorsister 's advice : post the…

2023-01-23 03:56:30 @xkcd You have to publish these.

2023-01-23 03:54:33 These are amazing. https://t.co/k9UZIcwdEJ

2023-01-23 03:51:26 RT @suchisaria: If you’re in AI and want to make a massive impact &

2023-01-23 03:50:47 @keerthanpg @nuwandavek Wow, neat idea! Ping @huggingface , seems like a HF project.

2023-01-23 02:29:11 RT @le_science4all: Our paper with @Sadegh_Farhad @L_badikho &

2023-01-22 20:08:40 @nikimari Got it. This answer makes the most sense to me. Thank you!

2023-01-16 07:40:27 RT @JuliaAngwin: Let’s talk about consent. Do you feel like you ever properly consented to being surveilled online constantly, having a pro…

2023-01-16 07:38:27 RT @EhudReiter: New blog: Texts can be accurate but still not appropriate https://t.co/iS4XbvzTay

2023-01-16 07:37:13 RT @NeurIPSConf: You can now watch the recorded material from #NeurIPS2022 online without registration at: https://t.co/BtaKedJGbb

2023-01-15 09:27:23 @ProfNoahGian That wasn't the first LLM, no. BERT was built based on the work that came before it.

2023-01-14 16:43:01 RT @SashaMTL: The objectification of women in text-to-image models is truly disheartening.. Does nobody else see the issue with prompts suc…

2023-01-14 16:36:00 RT @emilymbender: This is so gross. Also a study in a non-apology. He says he repudiates the horrific comments ... and then goes right back…

2023-01-14 12:04:04 It's crappy that I have to be bullied by chatbots on Twitter now. I've been sharing that this was happening/would get worse for years, now here we are and it's kicked up even more. Bullied with false information. Almost exactly like people.

2023-01-14 10:07:37 This is some of the face of technology currently @huggingface. Feel happy and proud to be with all these lovely people, who are also not men! Can only tag 10 people! https://t.co/LpReMLEe9j

2023-01-14 10:02:12 RT @IreneSolaiman: The foresight (fivesight?) of good research can't be understated. @_jongwook_kim built the GPT2 output detector (https:…

2023-01-14 10:01:36 @hardmaru @StableDiffusion +1

2023-01-13 10:19:15 @cherthedev WOW!! WAY TO GO!

2023-01-13 10:19:03 RT @cherthedev: Me: 4 Apple: 0 Remaining cases: 2 https://t.co/aks13nLVoD

2023-01-13 08:57:47 RT @mervenoyann: amazing women of @huggingface https://t.co/awrn7L6XhF

2023-01-13 08:56:53 RT @witkoochocinco: What an amazing way to celebrate the end of our first-ever @huggingface offsite! I'm so proud to be a part of this team…

2023-01-13 00:32:59 @_nateraw

2023-01-13 00:29:53 RT @RisingSayak: Major lesson from the @huggingface offsite: You can be incredible at your professional craft (tech, non-tech, etc.), but…

2023-01-13 00:23:27 RT @laurenfklein: Via @emilymbender, this recent interview with @timnitGebru provides such a clear view of where things are with AI right n…

2023-01-12 15:10:51 @AmandaAskell Oh I know this well.

2023-01-12 15:09:46 @_nateraw Hahaha oh man I wish I could've seen that. Thank you for your service!

2023-01-12 14:43:35 @_nateraw Wait, the FACE smells?

2023-01-12 14:28:38 @_nateraw Wowwww

2023-01-12 11:04:47 This captures a lot of good stuff about working on AI ethically. A paper that pins down commonalities that are similar to what I've seen as well. https://t.co/S1v3hBqSHT

2023-01-12 11:02:13 @IEthics Thanks for sharing!

2023-01-11 07:01:00 RT @EhudReiter: I'm looking for solid experimental papers which evaluate effectiveness of zero/few shot prompting on realistic data-to-text…

2023-01-10 08:34:56 @GaryMarcus @haleyhaala @emilymbender It's not fun for anyone to be singled out when identifying the larger patterns. But it's also critical we recognize the patterns in order to fix them. I mess up all the time (way too much), you could've done more here

2023-01-10 05:22:12 @DiverseInAI

2023-01-10 05:03:27 RT @SashaMTL: Absolutely stunning vineyard visit today as part of the @huggingface offsite! (@AltImageBot1 pls describe!) https://t.co

2023-01-10 04:59:23 "Which is more likely: Your company reaching AGI or 50% women engineers?" If the company says "AGI" (1) Their AGI will be optimized for men (2) Run. Such a brilliant interviewee question from @haleyhaala https://t.co/AnxtHy6c9C

2023-01-10 04:51:21 Us @huggingface are having way too much fun prancing around in the south of France, please no one break anything we might be too tipsy to fix it... https://t.co/nVIBB5L7X4

2023-01-10 04:50:01 RT @mervenoyann: beaning @mmitchell_ai @alaradirik @ThomasSimonini @GiadaPistilli @anton_lozhkov @reach_vb https://t.co/bacsf7oyag

2023-01-09 21:04:02 @GaryMarcus @sergia_ch I appreciate it!

2023-01-09 21:03:28 @sergia_ch @GaryMarcus tbf, Gary is *way more* inclusive than most tech leaders.

2023-01-09 14:04:23 @emilymbender Super useful

2023-01-09 14:04:04 RT @emilymbender: For anyone who doesn't want to be that guy when talking to the media, here's the strategy I follow: Make a list for yours…

2023-01-09 14:03:52 This is how women and women's work are erased in tech. You can watch in real time. And it's harder to get a job/raise when you're not "thought of" as an expert in your field

2023-01-09 08:19:04 RT @clb5590: @HabenGirma @mmitchell_ai I enjoyed using the Hugging Face Comparison Captioning Models Space. Would love to know other simila…

2023-01-08 21:19:16 RT @natolambert: The Twitter bot is live! @AltImageBot1 woot woot

2023-01-08 21:16:45 @clb5590 @HabenGirma Thank you!

2023-01-08 21:16:05 @HabenGirma Thank you!!!

2023-01-08 21:13:51 @AltImageBot1 @MrAxo1ot1 @SashaMTL @huggingface Oo proper name filter.

2023-01-08 21:12:31 @AltImageBot1 @saltig_ai @SashaMTL @huggingface Yeah it should be backed off to less specific locations. =P

2023-01-08 21:09:58 @tugrulcanelmas @AltImageBot1 @SashaMTL @huggingface There totally needs to be a Shazam for food.

2023-01-08 18:25:29 RT @SashaMTL: Our AI-powered alt-text bot (created during the @huggingface hackathon) is live! Tag @AltImageBot1 in your tweets and have it…

2023-01-08 18:15:37 @jjvincent just remembered I'm in France, will be for awhile, and my book is in Seattle. Sorry sorry nevermind!

2023-01-08 16:27:37 Tbf, also working with @freddy_alfonso_ lets you ship in ~3 hours. He's a beast! https://t.co/AHqYcBmMQU

2023-01-08 16:18:35 We @huggingface are all together right now and just had a 3-hour hackathon. Here's my team's submission! Of course I wanted to make an alt-text bot! Unfortunately we couldn't do everything that would need to be done -- but we did connect things end-to-end to build from there! https://t.co/ydbkJtfAUw

2023-01-08 15:19:17 @nbroad1881 Hahaha yeah dude that's why I'm asking the question -- that's our Space!

2023-01-08 14:37:43 @jjvincent Making note to self to DM you when I next have some time. Do you want corrections/suggestions for the page numbers for keywords at the end?

2023-01-08 14:26:09 @SinaBahram @saqibs @clb5590 @HabenGirma @jeffbigham @merrierm may also have some leads?

2023-01-08 14:25:51 @SinaBahram @saqibs @clb5590 @HabenGirma ...

2023-01-08 14:25:19 What are the *best* image captioning description models right now? Specifically would be nice to hear form people who are blind.

2023-01-08 14:11:01 @ClementDelangue @huggingface Oh jk I'm in the next building. I SEE YOU

2023-01-08 14:09:54 @ClementDelangue @huggingface ...Do you need expertise on how alt text works? I'm sitting across the room from you.

2023-01-08 14:09:24 RT @ClementDelangue: Trying to build a twitter bot that automatically creates alt text for images for accessibility at the @huggingface hac…

2023-01-08 08:14:58 @yoavgo @rendu_a @samuelmcurtis @icmlconf "I acknowledge" (or "I disclose", "we disclose" etc) "...getting ideas from unknown authors, through the use of ChatGPT" seems really reasonable to me in terms of what we can do for attribution right now.

2023-01-08 05:19:19 @emilymbender @IrisVanRooij In other words, I think we have ways of handling plagiarism, regardless of how the plagiarism happened. Ways of handling plagiarism include citing the source. But this does not at all address the **consent** issue, which is related but distinct.

2023-01-07 07:01:27 RT @juliangough: And so Microsoft, with 1700 legal staff available, didn’t reply to requests for comment from a major global media organisa…

2023-01-07 07:00:32 RT @juliangough: I basically kept quiet about the whole mess for years. Wasn’t sure what to do. Then, late last year, after a lot of though…

2023-01-07 06:59:35 RT @TristanThrush: Podcast episode is out! We discuss: - Research life at MIT vs. Facebook/Meta AI vs. Hugging Face. (Academia vs. large c…

2023-01-07 06:59:06 RT @adjiboussodieng: You don’t want to miss it. Submit your awesome papers

2023-01-07 06:58:22 @TaliaRinger @timnitGebru @laurenceb @mer__edith @clairewaves @nullvoidstar @Tri_Becca90 @mekkaokerekebye I appreciate you so much for seeing this and recognizing it. I got too used to the gaslighting. Your ability to see reality means so much (academically and personally!)

2023-01-07 06:56:37 @TaliaRinger @laurenceb @timnitGebru @mer__edith @clairewaves @nullvoidstar @Tri_Becca90 @mekkaokerekebye Yuh. It's so weird how lying (to the point of gaslighting) is normalized. It feels like they must get tips for gaslighting during training.

2023-01-07 06:54:12 @LeonDerczynski =O!!!!!! Who made that cookie?! That's amazing!!! Scott says you're invited back. =D Especially if you bring those cookies.

2023-01-07 06:45:25 "within a few weeks of ChatGPT going live, participants in cybercrime forums—some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks." https://t.co/h5xO13Fx0i

2023-01-07 06:40:05 @peard33 @WIRED Wowowow!! Well deserved and congrats!!

2023-01-06 07:33:26 @KLdivergence Wowow, that took you no time at all. Congratulations!!

2023-01-06 00:57:28 RT @wsisaac: Adobe is training AI on private content stored in Creative Cloud - https://t.co/Haf9C3Gs6d

2023-01-06 00:53:40 .@yoavgo &

2023-01-06 00:47:44 @timnitGebru @laurenceb @mer__edith @clairewaves @nullvoidstar @Tri_Becca90 @mekkaokerekebye Yeah but he was *listening to* and *respecting* us, lowly non-L7s. I think that was part of the issue.

2023-01-05 21:38:15 RT @ChinasaTOkolo: Pleased to announce my first publication of the year and my first-ever book chapter: “Responsible AI in Africa — Chall…

2023-01-05 21:37:31 @AmandaAskell That's what I was thinking too.

2023-01-05 21:32:37 @zehavoc @thetalperry Yeah, I agree. Still unclear how much influence I can have on the company, but from the start it's been clear my ideas are welcome, and they've been influential. Obviously I'm paying very close attention to the process and timing from <

2023-01-05 21:27:15 RT @neilturkewitz: @sharongoldman @OpenAI @model_mechanic @mmitchell_ai @nathanbenaich @jeffclune @MattWhite_TV @EMostaque “The focus on ho…

2023-01-05 19:35:22 Moving transparency documentation practices forward by removing barriers to entry @huggingface. Please check it out! https://t.co/Pk9VdhvZqp

2023-01-05 19:31:32 Where "toe the party line" appeared to me to mean "lie under oath that @timnitGebru resigned and was not fired". No company should put you in a position where you'd have to perjur yourself to stay employed. Certainly was wrong if expecting me to play along: I'm honest to a fault. https://t.co/KA20IluGrp

2023-01-05 19:21:34 Wow, another piece out today from @sharongoldman on text to image synthesis. Over achieving! I'm also quoted in this, very exciting for me. Thanks to Sharon and @huggingface for the opportunity. https://t.co/Ppl1bz1x0M

2023-01-05 19:06:40 @dirk_hovy @complingy @yoavgo @ChenTessler @icmlconf Oh, helpful find, thank you!

2023-01-05 19:06:22 RT @dirk_hovy: @complingy @yoavgo @ChenTessler @mmitchell_ai @icmlconf Wondered the same. I found this paper, which seems to find that they…

2023-01-05 19:05:17 @dirk_hovy @evanmiltenburg @ziebrah @yoavgo @complingy @ChenTessler @icmlconf Also. For the record, I alerted all my coauthors that that idea did not come from me, but from autosuggest. Could have just pretended it was me but I was too amazed, hehe.

2023-01-05 19:04:19 @dirk_hovy @evanmiltenburg @ziebrah @yoavgo @complingy @ChenTessler @icmlconf (FWIW, work in question that autosuggest helped out with, when I was writing an initial outline: https://t.co/Vd14CK60TY) Not yet complete so still time to play with acknowledgements...

2023-01-05 19:02:41 @dirk_hovy @evanmiltenburg @ziebrah @yoavgo @complingy @ChenTessler @icmlconf I mean, I've had autosuggest help me without me asking it to (it concluded a list of measurements I was writing with "central tendency and kurtosis", which we then did include in our work), and that's not even trying to write full sentence + analysis ("...can be used for xyz").

2023-01-05 16:46:23 (I get around)

2023-01-05 16:45:22 RT @cherthedev: Facial recognition software is dangerous. There is no benefit that outweighs the damage these tools have caused. None. Bi…

2023-01-05 16:44:48 Heading to France today, my SIL messaged me to say France would probably welcome me with open arms after this new revelation. https://t.co/uTdw1KkjvB

2023-01-05 16:42:58 @GaryMarcus Haha, "holy strawperson", I like that. Will have to use.

2023-01-05 16:41:54 @yoavgo @icmlconf @sharongoldman included it in her recent piece with a longer character limit than here! See the section, What about use of ChatGPT attribution? https://t.co/OTXRyQTPuI

2023-01-05 07:52:59 @zehavoc @thetalperry Doesn't that make it one of the *best* places for me to be working?

2023-01-04 22:07:20 @dlowd "unethical" is not a thing I say....I think very few people actually working on AI ethics say it. It's a kind of shorthand for "cons outweigh the pros and many human values are disrupted", which most people don't understand.

2023-01-04 22:04:14 @thetalperry I think there will very shortly (this week?) be news articles covering a lot of this -- several people in these discussions are being asked for comment by different journalists. Curious to see what others link to as well!

2023-01-04 22:01:17 @GaryMarcus Similar sky to mine in Seattle yesterday, overlooking Puget Sound. Translucent clouds, blurry sun, very light blues. https://t.co/YwfiatL6ka

2023-01-04 21:57:36 @thetalperry Yes, sure! Issues at play include: - Consent of the authors whose data is mined for training language models. - Value prioritization in the use of systems that generate novel writing. - Attribution of authors whose ideas are uniquely contributed by a text-writing system.

2023-01-04 21:50:59 @rachelmetz I feel ALL of this!

2023-01-04 21:47:14 ...and what's actually happening -- it might help!

2023-01-04 21:47:06 A few people referring to discussions on values in AI as "moral panic". It makes sense that reading discussions around human values might make one feel panicked

2023-01-04 21:43:26 RT @annargrs: As authors, many people seem very enthusiastic about AI-assisted papers. How about AI-assisted reviews for those papers? Will…

2023-01-04 19:43:16 RT @katieelink: Excited to share I've joined @huggingface as the first machine learning engineer focused on biomedical and healthcare ap…

2023-01-04 19:35:26 @yoavgo @icmlconf I'm not "really asking for" <

2023-01-04 19:32:20 @Marc__Watkins @CriticalAI @yoavgo @icmlconf The world is our oyster to play with for how to attribute clearly.

2023-01-04 19:32:08 @Marc__Watkins @CriticalAI @yoavgo @icmlconf Right, I agree it doesn't have to be a listed author in the traditional sense. Rather, the authorship attribution should be there. This could be (eg) a footnote on the main page (similar to notes on affiliations), a dedicated, new kind of byline, <

2023-01-04 19:27:15 @yoavgo @complingy @ChenTessler @icmlconf (unlikely)

2023-01-04 19:23:00 Guys, please stop trying to convince yourselves or others that it's a good argument to say that using a language model to generate writing for you is no different from using autocorrect. It's not a good argument and it's distracting from the actual issues at play.

2023-01-04 19:08:02 @BrandonLive @yoavgo @icmlconf Is using Word or Microsoft Editor for writing indistinguishable from using an LLM? No? Ok, cool: then you recognize there is something distinct about using LLMs for writing.

2023-01-04 19:01:28 @ylecun @yoavgo @icmlconf Yeah, that one is a really good point. Whether the system is recognized as an author or recognized in some other obvious way, the clear attribution should be there.

2023-01-04 10:06:05 @moyix @dlowd Great analogy!

2023-01-04 10:05:32 RT @moyix: There is something distinctly weird about the current situation with GPT3/ChatGPT, which has lots of scientists probing it to un…

2023-01-04 10:04:37 RT @mervenoyann: today I'm doing an ask me anything on anything related to @huggingface below this tweet it can be about working at ,…

2023-01-04 10:04:25 RT @cherthedev: @HillaryClinton As a general reminder: Don't read the comments just stop

2023-01-04 10:02:58 RT @dustin_wright37: In our recent preprint, we found that the Jensen-Shannon centroid of different views of crowd-annotations helped train…

2023-01-04 09:58:54 @vanstriendaniel @huggingface So happy to have you!

2023-01-04 09:58:42 RT @vanstriendaniel: Ridiculously excited that today is my first-day working at @huggingface! I genuinely believe Hugging Face has done s…

2023-01-04 09:58:04 @yoavgo @icmlconf Ugh don't pretend what I'm saying is actually some other thing I'm not saying in order to argue against that other thing. These conversations aren't fun, and maybe my presence is irrelevant.

2023-01-04 09:55:21 @rendu_a @samuelmcurtis @yoavgo @icmlconf Yeah, that seems like a reasonable thing to do.

2023-01-04 01:52:07 @sbmaruf @yoavgo @icmlconf I *think* you're trying to be insulting here? You had an opportunity to engage meaningfully with a scholar in a field you're interested in, but made a different choice, which I can't engage with further. Perhaps this will influence you to make better decisions in the future.

2023-01-04 01:48:37 @phenomecule @yoavgo @icmlconf All of these arguments fall apart upon reflection that people are using LLMs instead of x, conceding that there is something different about them (where x = whatever the reductive comparison du jour is: autocorrect, ngram, etc.)

2023-01-04 00:53:34 @samuelmcurtis @yoavgo @icmlconf In my opinion, all authors on a work should be credited as authors in some way. The form this credit takes is something we can start defining *now*, and may depend on the type of contribution from the hidden authors.

2023-01-04 00:49:43 @amaldorai @yoavgo @icmlconf This is an orthographic convention. An important aspect to keep in mind when considering similarities to content. Not to say orthography doesn't convey some kind of semantic content

2023-01-04 00:45:29 @sbmaruf @yoavgo @icmlconf If using your computer is the same as using an LLM, then no need to use an LLM.

2023-01-03 22:36:08 @yoavgo @icmlconf You sound confident but you are incorrect if you're implying it's not a tool composed of authored content by authors.

2023-01-03 21:45:40 RT @mervenoyann: BTW this project was made using a dataset which you could've opted out (you still can check/opt out if you're in the datas…

2023-01-03 21:44:35 @yoavgo @icmlconf If the language model is also included as an **author** then it should be fair game. Without that, using an LLM is a form of plagiarism: write the work you take credit for and don't take credit for work you don't write.

2023-01-03 21:42:44 *should clarify by "Google" I mean a couple Google leaders with massive negative influence on my career. Many have figured out who they are.

2023-01-03 21:23:43 RT @deliprao: “we have rejected lots of now-very-prominent scholars” I can bet Stanford is not alone here. Don’t take rejections from PhD…

2023-01-03 21:22:58 @BrigitteTousi Thank you!!! So glad to work with you too!

2023-01-03 21:22:02 This means so much to hear. Google seemed make it clear that I was Worthless Shit, overbearing and aggressive, unfriendly and uncollaborative. Each person I work with who suggests otherwise helps me to feel like I have some worth in this field.... https://t.co/z9QdGmH3RP

2023-01-03 21:19:22 RT @BrigitteTousi: Another shoutout to my water activist and climate queen @LisaMAndrews_. She led the first recycling initiative +10 years…

2023-01-03 19:51:35 RT @FAccTConference: Reminder: deadline approaching for #FAccT23! Our CfP is available here: https://t.co/iTWjkOt47f Abstract deadline: Jan…

2023-01-03 19:47:22 Emily Bender @emilymbender gave a great summary on our local news station of what ChatGPT is. Only about 4 minutes, check it out if you want a bit of a tl

2023-01-03 19:10:15 @emilymbender Thank you for doing all this work!! And for putting them together here.

2023-01-03 19:08:52 RT @mer__edith: The op-ed works to create the appearance of a “debate” on more or less settled issues. This is a powerful function, bolster…

2023-01-03 19:08:39 Ugh @mer__edith makes SUCH a good point (as usual). Op-eds praising terrible tech ideas aren't written for people with expertise, and their purpose won’t be perturbed by expert rebuttal. https://t.co/lxHgWbEJ3e

2023-01-03 19:06:09 RT @mer__edith: OK! let’s talk about That Op-ed. The one that insisted not only that privacy is dangerous, but that not affirmatively build…

2023-01-03 19:03:52 RT @sarahbmyers: Before the holidays I spoke with @byjacobward about the deeper concerns with ChatGPT - in addition to concerns about fraud…

2023-01-03 06:21:49 RT @TacoCohen: Surprisingly little AI progress in 2023 so far. What’s going on??

2023-01-03 06:17:15 RT @IEthics: "Many of the people who had been posting... about the incident were not real

2023-01-03 06:15:23 RT @mervenoyann: since it's a trend topic and people want to find open-source GPT3-like model we do have one: https://t.co/BqbAnbZ4hn (176B…

2023-01-03 02:13:00 @nsaphra https://t.co/uME1PZ9RwD

2023-01-01 07:58:52 RT @athundt: Beautifully done

2023-01-01 01:16:59 @EconElan @sergeykarayev

2023-01-01 01:10:48 @deviparikh You're always so good at tricks for how to handle life!

2023-01-01 01:09:47 RT @sergeykarayev: “Did GPT-3 write this?” is such a good insult

2023-01-01 01:05:17 "If you think you'll always have depression, then why are you here?" https://t.co/TI0eAcFt4k

2023-01-01 01:01:21 @judyshapiro @dmarti You're sounding really sure of yourself but not saying things that are correct. I'm done engaging, not fun to discuss without mutual appreciation and respect of expertise.

2023-01-01 00:51:10 RT @TofuPixel: miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to l…

2023-01-01 00:43:19 @TaliaRinger

2023-01-01 00:40:32 @judyshapiro @dmarti I think you're conflating ChatGPT with GPT-* + RLHF &

2022-12-31 21:52:33 RT @meyer_lucas: Simplest and best tribute to exemplify the Barbara Walters legacy : On her final show on The View, they just brought one…

2022-12-31 21:50:34 RT @random_walker: .@sayashk and I are grateful to everyone who subscribed to the AI Snake Oil blog / newsletter. It’s made our book projec…

2022-12-31 21:47:33 RT @ruthstarkman: @alexhanna serving New Year's truth: "I don't think this thing called EthicalAI is going to save the world. It's more…

2022-12-31 21:47:16 RT @emilymbender: Yesterday I got to do a segment on @KIRO7Seattle about #ChatGPT and took the opportunity to try to push back on the #AIhy…

2022-12-31 21:38:59 RT @PaulMcCartney: Barbara was an amazing woman who more than held her own in the early days of male-dominated television and went on to be…

2022-12-31 21:31:10 @BarryNorton @_TechyBen @areebbajwa Thanks. =)

2022-12-31 02:28:39 My most listened-to song of 2022 was apparently Sparks, "Wonder Girl". If you don't know Sparks, you should! https://t.co/fqQnF439Cz

2022-12-31 02:19:12 RT @IEthics: The 9th Cir. has "revived a lawsuit accusing... #Google and several other companies of violating the #privacy of children unde…

2022-12-31 02:06:30 RT @dvilasuero: Data labeling right from the @huggingface Hub? Thrilled to introduce @argilla_io live demo Docker Space. Stay tuned for…

2022-12-31 01:35:59 RT @geomblog: Framing what is Signal's most useful feature - that we can communicate end to end without surveillance - only as a problem fo…

2022-12-31 00:31:26 Update from @BrigitteTousi on 2022 for @huggingface. https://t.co/pbmBWrP71L

2022-12-31 00:29:41 @towardstengen @NannaInie No one is "COVID shaming". That says more about how you feel than what I said: leave me out of your thing.

2022-12-30 20:43:55 @neilturkewitz @antsstyle #toosoon

2022-12-30 20:36:34 @hopeandlonging I'm in a bad mood. People who won't attribute to me given the unique insights I have to share, because I make things "obvious", can go ahead and figure it out themselves.

2022-12-30 20:34:59 @hopeandlonging The evolution from the earlier days to more recently is *also* informative. I'm not gonna spell it out here: I want to be attributed for my ideas. My insights are often fundamental and "obvious" in hindsight, and people tend to feel this justifies lack of attribution to me.

2022-12-30 20:31:10 I still haven't gotten COVID. Part luck and part wearing a mask outdoors and requiring everyone I interact with indoors to have gotten a negative test that day. #sorrybutnotactuallysorry https://t.co/W1YGQzucZZ

2022-12-30 20:21:55 The A side, Goodnight Tonight, also has some pretty friggin stellar bass work. I'd kinda like it without the lyrics, just as an instrumental. https://t.co/T99Tz21dDU

2022-12-30 20:18:59 RT @HighTheoryPodc1: EPISODE 106: ETHICAL AI We close our year with @alexhanna of @DAIRInstitute talking to @nathanckim about what we mea…

2022-12-30 20:08:13 @kdphd @WHOSTP Thank you for your service.

2022-12-30 20:07:53 RT @kdphd: Goodbye @WHOSTP! It's been an honor.

2022-12-30 20:07:46 RT @AlondraNelson46: A bittersweet day of gratitude and praise for the tremendous service of @WhiteHouse @WHOSTP colleagues as well.

2022-12-30 20:06:07 Spent last night listening through 40+ Paul singles in the 70s-00s, and being weirdly upset that (at least publicly) people seem to only talk to him about the Beatles. He's such a cool bassist. Sorta sillily obsessed with Back to the Egg 1979 single rn: https://t.co/A7yeBU1JT9 https://t.co/9tMtLx15xG https://t.co/FM9foW8vKn

2022-12-30 19:56:51 I'll probably never get to meet my idol, @PaulMcCartney, and that sucks. Feeling really sad about it today.

2022-12-30 19:06:30 RT @josheidelson: For the first time, this year I tried keeping track of the gender of the named sources in my stories

2022-12-30 18:58:04 @neilturkewitz @tunguz Ha!

2022-12-30 18:57:33 @mikarv @timnitGebru =(

2022-12-29 00:01:58 Mentioned ChatGPT to a non-work person and paused a sec to ask if they'd heard of it. They laughed, of course they'd heard of it. I officially no longer know what is "my niche world" and "general audience" anymore. o_O

2022-12-28 21:41:23 @LeonDerczynski No amount of work, or patterns, or pointing to counter evidence, changes this. The next Big Thing I work on will likely also be something I'm told to stop working on, that it's stupid, irrelevant, etc. I don't think it ever stops...

2022-12-28 21:39:50 @LeonDerczynski Have I been told by a man in power, almost without fail, that every project I've embarked on within CS is useless/pointless/dumb/etc? Yes. Have those same works had a massive uptick in utility and references 2+ years after the fact, and still are well-cited today? Also yes.

2022-12-28 21:37:20 @LeonDerczynski Within structurally sexist systems, doing good work doesn't amount to much of anything

2022-12-28 21:34:35 @yoavgo @jrfinkel @chrmanning ... should seriously grapple with.

2022-12-28 21:34:25 @yoavgo @jrfinkel @chrmanning Can't see what she's saying ("account owner limits who can view their Tweets"). If relevant, sexism against women is very much alive and well among women. It's something I see in myself, work on, &

2022-12-28 20:56:45 Why is my Twit feed showing me so many more mean people than before? There's not too many in my circles, but they're all popping up now, ending years of happily just not paying attention to them. Whatever changed, I don't like it: it makes Twit both more negative &

2022-12-28 20:51:30 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning FWIW, the "pack" of pro-tech-without-diverse-foresight is massively larger and massively more funded. I'm thankful for views that offer different insights into the technology. It's exhausting to do against such a massive pack, and takes a lot of courage.

2022-12-28 20:49:14 The piece -- invited (I think) because my ideas do stick -- kind of writes itself...

2022-12-28 20:48:56 Surreal to be writing an invited piece on exclusionary &

2022-12-28 20:38:07 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning Idk. There's something fundamental here about power differentials and the utility of those at the lower end of power differentials naming and describing what the differential is. The fact that you're seeing this as pro- vs anti- tech (not humanities) is kind of a case in point.

2022-12-28 19:58:23 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning 7) Does not refer to non-men using this equality marker. (...maybe the end, gotta take a phone call now...)

2022-12-28 19:58:04 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning 4) Is insultingly reductive about insights into tech that don't glorify it 5) Asserts Self as the authority on issues they are not authorities on And occasionally... 6) Has a dialect where they refer to people they see as equals as "brah" (spelled "bro") (8/n)

2022-12-28 19:55:37 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning 1) Tends to only work with/listen to/be respectful towards men 2) Tends to speak over/demean/be disrespectful towards non-men 3) Metaphorically drools over all tech advances (even ones that are kinda obviously bad) (7/n)

2022-12-28 19:53:31 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning From my understanding of him, and commonalities to other people at Google in the Bay Area (not so much in Seattle), I think the following traits are relevant...and, importantly for the existence of the term, **common enough to need a term**...(6/n)

2022-12-28 19:52:11 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning Although I'm still not solid on the cluster of characteristics commonly co-occurring for the term "techbro", I learned at Google that there was some agreement it applies to people like Jason Friedenfelds, lead of Google AI PR, who was not a mathy person. (5/n)

2022-12-28 19:48:52 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning One of her points, I think, is that we develop slang terms to capture sets of characteristics that are (1) commonly clustering/co-occurring

2022-12-28 19:46:59 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning then as similar characteristics began gaining recognition again alongside people advancing in tech and medicine, the term use grew and then massively surpassed its previous frequency. (3/n)

2022-12-28 19:46:05 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning Apparently it was used as a way to describe a set of characteristics often associated with "yuppies" (1980s). Then as "yuppie"ism died down, so too did the use of the word as an epithet

2022-12-28 19:44:46 @yoavgo @CriticalAI @chrmanning Sorta related, I had a really interesting chat with Harriett Jernigan at Stanford when I visited on the evolution of the terms "douche"/"douchebag" as epithets. (1/n)

2022-12-28 00:44:28 To get a sense of where AI is headed, it's good to watch what happens as Google Brain drains -- who is leaving, what they specialize in, and what they're doing now. Also mentions @alexhanna. https://t.co/nshDD2OOYK

2022-12-27 23:20:07 @osoleve "Every man for himself"

2022-12-27 23:13:34 @osoleve Oo good call!

2022-12-27 22:50:22 Better picture: https://t.co/zoh9ipUhdB

2022-12-27 22:47:19 Could it be related to the Desert of Maine? https://t.co/pjDAeQNXNa

2022-12-27 22:37:03 @ZeerakTalat @dirk_hovy Way to go!

2022-12-27 22:36:05 While searching online for an answer, I found this one, haha. https://t.co/eOnAnwidGz

2022-12-27 22:20:18 And if things go the way I hope, then Shmargaret Shmitchell will be a fun historical footnote.* *Yes, living one's life with respect to options for future historical footnotes is totally normal.

2022-12-27 22:15:42 OTOH, betcha the Stochastic Parrots thingie will be in AI histories well past 50 years from now. https://t.co/xaZhV16P6m

2022-12-27 22:06:33 One of my favorite things during "The Spooky Season" (Oct 1-Jan 1) is to read old Chas Addams comics. Can anyone puzzle out this one? I cannot. https://t.co/eD7Fu1WegW

2022-12-27 21:32:02 @timnitGebru Remember, when you're thinking of hiring someone who sounds fancy, first ask the women and LGBTQ+ people at your company who have crossed their path what kind of cultural environment the person creates.

2022-12-27 21:24:50 As we end 2022, I'm again reliving the end to 2020, with the firing of @timnitGebru then 3 months of terror for me at Google, then my own firing. 2 yrs later, people within NLP have by now puzzled through who the "high level" NLP person could have been behind the scenes.

2022-12-27 21:08:52 Me, reading a thread from a guy roughly as senior as I am in AI, who has only ever been demeaning to me, being demeaning to @emilymbender: that tracks. Demeaning dudes demean.

2022-12-27 21:07:02 AI minorities, do YOU have senior AI people who have made you feel like you belonged? Who encouraged your ideas? Who you wish more ppl could be like? Who? (2/2)

2022-12-27 21:05:53 Appreciation thread! Me, others hint at senior ppl in AI who create alienating spaces, but rarely hint at ppl who inspire us to keep going. Some senior men in AI who're awesome &

2022-12-27 20:58:26 RT @ruthstarkman: Reading some withering student criticism of the move to relationality in analytical #AIEthics, mea culpa, I know I'm the…

2022-12-27 20:50:53 RT @neilturkewitz: “Companies such as Stability AI &

2022-12-27 20:50:32 @julien_c @huggingface

2022-12-27 05:34:27 @mikarv @jorisvanhoboken Completely.

2022-12-25 15:34:53 “I feel good about what I did, despite what happened,” she said. “It feels important to hold people accountable.” https://t.co/9HcUVxGmPX

2022-12-25 06:08:50 @DaRocq That's what I'm saying!

2022-12-24 20:00:53 @zacharylipton I said nothing about modifications to ChatGPT, I said ChatGPT as such. Quite obviously there are updates that can be made, I think my thread hints at some...

2022-12-24 19:59:17 Bleak. https://t.co/EanEGv9OGw

2022-12-24 06:14:21 RT @MadisenXTaylor: Harvard Business School and @huggingface collaborated on a case study about the tools, people, values (&

2022-12-24 03:19:19 @deliprao Haha!

2022-12-22 22:50:05 "since we’re sprinting into an era where bullshit is easier to produce than ever, you might like to put more oomph into fact-checking from now on." Lovely work from @quaesita (as always!) https://t.co/6jnJKcsLGz

2022-12-22 20:45:32 Warning: For parents with kids believing in Santa Claus, don't let them ask ChatGPT about him.....

2022-12-22 17:40:21 @zehavoc Aaaaaaaaaaah @SashaMTL surely these things do not deserve love....

2022-12-22 17:38:19 RT @mjp39: it’s awesome that this is built into the twitter app now https://t.co/kacPrZydgn

2022-12-22 06:54:09 RT @IEthics: "[T]hese are the sorts of questions I have for us just now as we navigate the flood of machine-generated media: How will #AI-g…

2022-12-22 06:39:58 RT @zehavoc: We don't talk enough about what appears to be an incredible act of courage under the deadly Taliban regime. I can't believe we…

2022-12-22 06:39:32 RT @BNonnecke: Recently fired from @Twitter, @Meta, @Google, @Microsoft? Work in civil society, government, or academia? WE WANT YOU! Appl…

2022-12-21 22:44:50 @evanmiltenburg @huggingface Thanks!

2022-12-21 22:18:17 I am so grateful that I've been able to work with @ezi_ozoani. Check out some of her work below! https://t.co/U5UQxK3mTI

2022-12-21 21:27:33 @ssgrn @TechAtBloomberg @uwnlp @MetaAI @allen_ai Way to go!

2022-12-21 21:25:56 RT @quicola: Very important work by @Eticas_tech. Thanks for doing the work and sharing with the community. @YouTube and @Google who is lea…

2022-12-21 20:39:55 @LeonDerczynski @ezi_ozoani @mkgerchick Thank you for caring!!

2022-12-21 20:39:09 and the support of SO MANY across @huggingface! Remember: Document early and document often! Happy documenting!! (4/4)

2022-12-21 20:38:18 This would not have been possible without the MANY contributions of @osanseviero

2022-12-21 20:32:17 @ezi_ozoani @mkgerchick - Updated card template, informed by the state of the art in ML documentation - Detailed overview of the state of the art in ML documentation - User studies And more!! To get started learning abt everything we're sharing, check out the Guidebook: https://t.co/KWc5R63fa9 (2/n)

2022-12-21 20:28:37 Merry Solstice! Chag Sameach! Happy Holidays! Super stoked to share the release of TONS of Model Card resources, led by @ezi_ozoani and @mkgerchick!! https://t.co/ZfvvRIswEG INCLUDES: - Instructions on how to actually do them - Tool to create/Submit/Edit without code (1/n)...

2022-12-21 02:19:34 RT @histoftech: I’M FREAKING OUT

2022-12-20 23:00:42 RT @GretchenMarina: Very grateful for this initiative from @xriskology &

2022-12-20 21:49:07 RT @SashaMTL: Did you hear? We are organizing another workshop at ICLR! Submit your ideas and projects!!

2022-12-20 02:11:24 It will require training on the network of linked web sources &

2022-12-20 02:11:02 We will likely get to a place where there is a ChatSearch app that provides reasonable information. But it will require a fundamental change in how we train models like ChatGPT: 9/n

2022-12-20 02:03:40 Crudely, what this means is that ChatGPT is in a stage that's similar to the early days of web search: Yes it can give a lot of information, no there is not a great match between what you want and useful or reliable results. 8/n

2022-12-20 02:01:55 But with ChatGPT, this traceability is erased. The connections-between-sites that has been the bedrock of uncovering (somewhat) reliable information on the web is removed. 7/n

2022-12-20 01:59:06 This breakthrough was built on the *traceability* of information from the web: the linking between sources and their content. 6/n

2022-12-20 01:49:46 But there was a fundamental breakthrough in Search tech with the implementation of PageRank. With PageRank, the fact that websites link to one another could be used to identify which websites were *the most* linked to. The *most linked* sites are the ones people tend to want. 5/n https://t.co/yqyNT88V9e

2022-12-20 01:42:00 That's similar to where we are with ChatGPT today. Except, the websites are erased, and instead you get snippets of likely response text extracted from different websites. 4/n

2022-12-20 01:38:45 A web search query (roughly) meant putting in a sequence of text as a query, and getting back websites with the most likely sequences of text following your query. 3/n

2022-12-20 01:36:04 Before PageRank, a search would return a slew of websites of mixed utility, quality, and veracity. The results were directly tied to matches between what you queried and the text on the pages. 2/n

2022-12-20 01:33:01 In order to understand why ChatGPT can't replace Google Search, it's useful to understand the early days of web search and the role that PageRank played. 1/n

2022-12-20 00:27:37 RT @catherineols: I've decided to offer a *mutually counterfactual* donation match on this! That is: If you donate $ that you would not…

2022-12-20 00:26:48 RT @huggingface: Wonder what we're up to with reinforcement learning? We are excited to help enable this new benchmark and workshop, broad…

2022-12-20 00:26:11 RT @ruthstarkman: ChatGPT Has Infiltrated Twitter Replies https://t.co/6Ax3XqN05B

2022-12-20 00:24:20 RT @krvarshney: "Scaling the use of AI requires AI governance, the process of defining policies and establishing accountability throughout…

2022-12-19 23:37:50 RT @CriticalAI: Nice work from @mitreview's @Melissahei. "Snowball of bullshit" indeed. https://t.co/z40qzkwYgg

2022-12-19 18:46:51 RT @natolambert: A time to remind grad students, have an easy to navigate and informative personal website. All of us leaving twitter will…

2022-12-19 18:46:42 RT @EhudReiter: Friend said I must be happy to see NLG in the news with ChaptGPT. Didnt know how to react... To me, NLG is about present…

2022-12-19 16:48:52 RT @mer__edith: When Google got serious about stopping labor organizing they introduced new workplace policies that were hard-to-impossible…

2022-12-18 17:28:26 RT @kortizart: I am THRILLED to announce that the #ConceptArtAssociation has released a #gofundmecampaign to fund multiple actions, so we a…

2022-12-18 17:27:47 RT @neilturkewitz: @mmitchell_ai @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ I would suggest coordinating with and supporting the work of the Concept…

2022-12-18 17:27:38 @neilturkewitz @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart Oh great to know about!

2022-12-18 07:56:49 https://t.co/mtq52uorPF

2022-12-17 23:59:16 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Even better is for us to be able to be the ones saying "Yes" -- No assumed as default.

2022-12-17 23:49:32 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Not sure what this is saying, although I do agree it would be great to convince CC to avoid contributing to artists' precarity. Not sure how else to do it

2022-12-17 23:47:21 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Unfortunately ML development isn't chock-full of ethical actors... Either way, if your goal is to "beat" SOTA by our various (broken) metrics, you cannot do it yet unless you have large data. And the source for that --right now-- is CC.

2022-12-17 23:44:52 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite There really aren't other services. Common Crawl is the not-secret hidden force behind modern ML datasets, which pull from CC and then (sometimes) filter.

2022-12-17 23:43:12 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite The way modern ML training works is *so* broken. But it can't be fixed by explaining the issues and asking ML developers just not to develop, because they do indeed just say "no".

2022-12-17 23:42:30 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Right, but what you're asking isn't "just say no", you're asking AI companies like Stability AI not to exist: They would not exist if Common Crawl didn't exist.

2022-12-17 23:27:19 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Most recently, I explained what's going on here: https://t.co/l4EqQCVzeI

2022-12-17 23:25:54 @alexhanna @neilturkewitz @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ Yeah, I would love to know more. All I can offer in return at this point is some tools for automatic documentation, but perhaps that is better than nothing?

2022-12-17 23:25:06 @neilturkewitz @alexhanna @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ @kortizart @FlyingTrilobite Oh, interesting. I thought I'd responded to you before with those deets (and have been confused why you weren't referring to them). As with most large ML datasets, LAION is built from Common Crawl data.

2022-12-17 21:53:19 @neilturkewitz @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ https://t.co/okRwZQqGfK If you want to work on trying to convince this group to modernize their practices, please include me.

2022-12-17 21:52:22 @neilturkewitz @SashaMTL @huggingface @spawning_ Yes, I agree. To do this in a way that fundamentally changes the field, we need to get at the SOURCE. And this means in many cases Common Crawl and laws that permit its unconsented distribution.

2022-12-17 21:50:10 RT @TaoOfTweet: @mmitchell_ai @Abebab “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understandi…

2022-12-17 20:41:00 @_lewtun This is such a hilarious problem situation to imagine.

2022-12-17 20:39:43 Sasha: I'm sick. =( Me: You should go chill! It's the end of the year, all of your TODOs are done, and everyone's going on vacation now. Sasha: Can't, making sea slug app. #dedication https://t.co/Yt3xu1usl4

2022-12-17 20:37:01 RT @DeVaneyGoBlue: “It was already hard to breathe.” -@ruha9 (on weathering, environmental racism, and structural gaslighting). #viraljusti…

2022-12-17 20:31:21 What we *think* we truly believe is tied up in what's making us money. For some tech leads, that means actually believing that people who identify harms are a problem, rather than recognizing how critical they are to mature system development. https://t.co/kHO9sM3vSb

2022-12-16 20:26:16 One of my favorite results from @nazneenrajani 's work, that I want to make sure the rest of the ML community notes: -->

2022-12-16 19:13:08 RT @nazneenrajani: I presented our work on the systematic study of models on HF when we were at 75,000 models just a few weeks ago at EMNLP…

2022-12-16 17:52:53 RT @nsaphra: Twitter is now blocking Mastodon links! This is a great time to make the switch. See you over there. https://t.co/YVT8DbpYgs

2022-12-16 02:55:01 RT @MelMitchell1: @mmitchell_ai @not2social Follow all the M. Mitchells in AI! And the K. Mitchells too (@WiringTheBrain)! And follow us…

2022-12-16 00:33:54 @not2social It's an honor to be confused with her, it happens a lot. <

2022-12-16 00:04:24 @not2social Ooh you may mean to be following @MelMitchell1 then, instead!

2022-12-15 21:47:20 Newsletter #2 from the Ethics/Society folks @huggingface is out! This one was led by @YJernite , who's put together an *awesome* focus on what Bias is, what to do about, it and the stuff we've developed *specifically in the bias space* https://t.co/eKkK4bDfJw https://t.co/A6XLFCPcBv

2022-12-15 21:45:01 @AlphaSignalAI Thanks!

2022-12-15 21:37:39 @DataSciBae Wow, I love that!!

2022-12-15 21:34:03 Not 100% sure what this means but YAY 9.5/10! https://t.co/9Knh8xA3ci

2022-12-15 17:30:43 @malar_key @spawning_ @FlyingTrilobite @Golisms Because the way data is collected for ML these days is using the files made available from Common Crawl. https://t.co/okRwZQHJhK And Common Crawl does not ask for consent nor save extra user information to get it after the fact.

2022-12-15 16:13:21 @LeonDerczynski @normconf Hehehehehehe

2022-12-15 16:09:29 Hugely deserved @anoushnajarian !! Thank you for all you do. https://t.co/zLpMPrZKfU

2022-12-15 16:08:31 RT @peppeatta: @BastingsJasmijn @MelMitchell1 @FelixHill84 @davidchalmers42 Hi! Someone was exploring the idea of "radioactive data" to "ma…

2022-12-15 15:57:35 Welcome to the list to my wonderful colleagues @SashaMTL and @IreneSolaiman ! So grateful to have you in my life. https://t.co/zLpMPrIHdU

2022-12-15 15:54:50 RT @carperai: If you want to learn more about how RLHF works, read our blog post with @HuggingFace on the topic. Written by @natolambert, @…

2022-12-15 04:16:18 I don't want to be on Twitter, but I'm having a hard time communicating with everyone I'd like to communicate with without it. Come on, everyone! Aren't we mastodoning now?

2022-12-15 02:05:56 AWESOME news! Way to go @spawning_ ! https://t.co/PUhKVZWmOp

2022-12-14 21:28:07 RT @schock: Not about shaming people to leave Twitter, but besides the transphobic qanon fashy apologist in charge, Twitter has lost major…

2022-12-14 21:21:27 RT @alexhanna: My first CHIIR paper acceptance! With students Christine Pinney, Amifa Raj, and (non-student) @mdekstrand: "Much Ado About G…

2022-12-14 21:21:14 RT @histoftech: Brilliant coauthored piece from @KishonnaGray &

2022-12-14 21:20:24 RT @emilymbender: Come work with us at the University of Washington! Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Science https://t.co/UlALX7Fj

2022-12-14 21:19:50 RT @nsaphra: We (@BingchenZhao @gu_yuling @in4dmatics me) used PCANet as an example of a paper that is widely cited in East Asia but ignore…

2022-12-14 21:00:04 RT @ranjodhd: I'd actually argue they are the best at this. This is precisely what *this* is.

2022-12-14 20:18:25 RT @BriannaWu: To recap today: 19,000 people booed Elno for 10 minutes. Tesla price plummeted so far he’s no longer the richest man. @SBF…

2022-12-14 18:59:11 RT @LeonDerczynski: harm might come out of this kind of technology? * What is the error rate of the algorithm? * Why does the algorithm fai…

2022-12-14 18:58:18 RT @LeonDerczynski: Great interview question suggestions for reporting on AI, from Maneesh Agrawala &

2022-12-14 18:55:59 Thanks in no small part to @huggingface 's new *communications* person, @BrigitteTousi ! (Several of you have mentioned that a comms/PR expert would be good...if for no other reason than having someone to help us bumbling engineers with clarity + wording...)

2022-12-14 18:54:15 I get a lot of press requests, most of which I fail to respond to. =( BUT if you're interested in talking about ML models, data, the state-of-the-art, or bias/fairness wrt AI, you can now use press@huggingface.co to find someone actively working on this stuff! @huggingface

2022-12-14 18:52:43 RT @BrigitteTousi: @huggingface’s very own @IreneSolaiman and @SashaMTL have been named among @WomeninAIEthics’ ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI…

2022-12-14 17:54:50 Feign shock of Google execs shooting selves in the foot. "AI researchers @timnitGebru and Margaret Mitchell were fired from Google after publishing a paper outlining...the same challenges that Pichai and Dean are now explaining to staff..." https://t.co/SwqqHDxONA

2022-12-14 17:42:02 RT @radamihalcea: “Nearly half of the [Michigan AI] lab’s faculty are women, much higher than the global average of 16% reported in the 202…

2022-12-14 17:37:07 RT @mlittmancs: Nice blog post (co-authored by a Brown PhD student!) explaining how systems like ChatGPT are built using clever combination…

2022-12-14 17:34:17 RT @BaldEmc2: Lineage matters and having an open solution is just as important. It's why we built #authenticatedAI @VermillioHQ ... Image-g…

2022-12-14 01:07:37 RT @schmidtim: I literally considered goat farming https://t.co/pjCpRJQ4YG

2022-12-13 23:03:10 RT @LeonDerczynski: "Sociotechnical Harms". I've been coming back to this paper again and again for a couple of months now. It's a really c…

2022-12-13 21:10:53 @ethayarajh Nice, will add!

2022-12-13 16:51:29 RT @amauritsvdv: Exactly! And as this excellent article by @abebab and @rajiinio also notes, "Dishearteningly, many of these “recently” fla…

2022-12-13 16:49:51 RT @Melissahei: As an Asian woman, I thought I’d seen it all. But being sexualized by an AI was not something I expected, although it is no…

2022-12-13 16:49:35 RT @dnnslmr: Are you using @huggingface's evaluate package? You can now load the Almost Stochastic Order test for model comparisons from th…

2022-12-13 16:47:33 RT @rajiinio: Excited to join this panel today! David's book was such a lovely and informative read - highly recommend.

2022-12-13 16:42:01 @sherrirose @timnitGebru @AmstatNews @TabbLoni @adjiboussodieng That's wonderful to hear, thank you!

2022-12-13 16:41:48 RT @sherrirose: @mmitchell_ai Your words also inspire others to lift up folks who deserve recognition. Your 2018 tweet in response to @tim…

2022-12-13 16:38:15 @osoleve Signs of a good paper, IMO. We also briefly considered citing Euclid, hehe.

2022-12-13 16:37:15 @complingy A quantification of points, or pairs of points, in the dataset--including its metadata &

2022-12-13 16:28:19 @az_jacobs Your work was super influential!! We have notes about how we need to better incorporate references to it throughout. Would love feedback if you have the cycles, also totally understood if you don't!

2022-12-13 16:11:10 RT @knightcolumbia: TODAY @ 3PM ET: Join our book talk event w/ @dgrobinson, @rajiinio, @random_walker &

2022-12-13 16:09:08 RT @gleemie: An important analysis of AI ethics as something industry creates and purchases, and what that does to our ability to deal w/te…

2022-12-13 04:58:44 RT @SashaMTL: I've officially made it, I can retire in peace! But more seriously: bravo @MiaD and team for the amazing work you do

2022-12-13 04:18:35 "bursting with excitement" was hyperbolic.

2022-12-13 03:25:53 Also thank you to @adjiboussodieng @RishiBommasani for your ideas and everyone else on this tweet thread!! https://t.co/pyqn9i9nC6 -- We still need to cite more that people have pointed us to, and add more acknowledgements! Good thing it's a preprint!

2022-12-13 03:23:13 @mcmillan_majora @mkgerchick @natolambert @SashaMTL . Also many many thanks to @jjvincent and @LeonDerczynski for their help formulating some of the fundamentals.

2022-12-13 03:22:06 It is definitely a WIP -- almost a year of discussions and head-scratching @huggingface , then tentative putting-ideas-into-paper, now available here for further discussion. Ping for all the main brains behind it: @douwekiela @YJernite @TristanThrush @nazneenrajani @_____ozo__...

2022-12-13 03:20:13 I am bursting with excitement to finally share an idea that has been cooking for awhile: Measuring Data https://t.co/Vd14CJNRFQ When you "measure data", you quantify its characteristics to support dataset comparison &

2022-12-13 03:18:15 @VeredShwartz Yeeeppo

2022-12-13 00:36:05 RT @oliverdarcy: "Twitter’s former head of trust and safety (@yoyoel) has fled his home due to an escalation in threats resulting from Elon…

2022-12-11 21:27:29 RT @schock: It's time to seriously reconsider whether you ever want to join another social network controlled by capitalists. The time wh…

2022-12-11 21:26:08 RT @krvarshney: Don't know how to choose your next research topic? Confused by all the layoffs? Feeling burned out? Any question big or sma…

2022-12-11 21:09:38 1) YAAY EMNLP has recognized our @huggingface demo of measurement of data and models!! WTG @douwekiela @lvwerra &

2022-12-11 20:59:01 RT @douwekiela: Woohoo we won #EMNLP2022 best demo! That’s three in a row for @huggingface 2020 - Transformers 2021 - Datasets 2022 -…

2022-12-10 21:17:25 RT @_lewtun: Is it publicly known how large: 1. the prompt dataset behind ChatGPT is? 2. the reward model is (i.e. 50B, 100B, ...)? Askin…

2022-12-10 19:24:44 RT @TomChivers: absolutely amazing. I'm writing about The Dress (it's Bayesian, you see) and this demonstration is almost uncanny. https://…

2022-12-10 19:18:56 RT @douwekiela: There seems to be a huge appetite for a “BigScience for RLHF” (here at #EMNLP2022 at least), where as a community we pool r…

2022-12-10 19:18:19 @pk_koduri Cry and drink?

2022-12-10 19:16:18 @RisuToInu That means a lot rn, thank you.

2022-12-10 19:12:25 I always try to raise up people with lower seniority or visibility than me. I give credit and praise where no one would have given credit to me. Be the change you want to see, but it's brutal.

2022-12-10 19:09:56 No matter how hard I work, how much experience is behind what I do, I am always told that what I'm doing is not good. No matter how transformative I see that my work can be, I am always told I should stop working on it. It's only ever been time that's helped to suggest otherwise.

2022-12-10 18:52:18 RT @cfiesler: The @huggingface GPT detector works very well on ChatGPT-created text. I ran 5 student essays and 5 ChatGPT essays for the sa…

2022-12-10 18:51:55 Thanks @Abebab and @rajiinio for writing it!!!

2022-12-10 18:51:25 "...without naming and recognizing the engineering choices that contribute to the outcomes of these models, it’s almost impossible to acknowledge the related responsibilities." Article is SO. GOOD. Gets better the farther in you get. https://t.co/AWEV8cRIf9 @Abebab &

2022-12-10 18:45:17 @mervenoyann I love these! I want them to exist.

2022-12-10 18:44:56 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffer…

2022-12-10 18:43:15 RT @asmelashteka: Takeaways: Please treat black people like other humans. We're not wrong or illegal by default. If you can't be kind, at l…

2022-12-10 18:42:47 RT @asmelashteka: Timnit and Alex wrote about the cafe in SJO and the security threats they faced afterwards in more detail: https://t.co/

2022-12-10 18:41:37 RT @asmelashteka: My brother and I were denied boarding not because we didn't have the right documents but because the staff at @Iberia fel…

2022-12-10 18:40:05 RT @asmelashteka: The #racism I experienced at @Iberia in #Madrid as well as in #CostaRica this past week is appalling and infuriating. My…

2022-12-10 18:39:30 No, we are not miles away from Tay. Minimally: the same culture that could not foresee the obvious (mis)uses of Tay is still the culture today, and still deciding that a product launch outweighs all risks to people.

2022-12-10 18:31:43 RT @AnimaAnandkumar: I spoke to @latimes on #ChatGPT on how it can confidently give wrong but plausible answers to puzzles, and it is not g…

2022-12-10 18:31:10 @carolinesinders Any sign of it getting better? =(

2022-12-10 18:30:47 RT @carolinesinders: i know i talk about this a lot but i'd give anything to have less joint pain. #longcovid is no joke y'all. i'm just…

2022-12-10 06:01:35 RT @emilymbender: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 4 -- Is AI Art Actually "Art"? With @shengokai @WITWhat and @negar_rz hosted by @al…

2022-12-10 00:29:02 RT @ClimateChangeAI: Our #NeurIPS2022 workshop panelist @SashaMTL is hosting an AMA on the @ClimateChangeAI community platform. Drop by and…

2022-12-10 00:28:54 RT @SashaMTL: Ask me anything (about climate change and emissions, preferably)!

2022-12-10 00:27:47 RT @rajiinio: Me &

2022-12-09 22:49:54 RT @tsimonite: "ChatGPT was trained on real-world text, and the real world essentially runs on fluent bullshit" — @amitkatwala https://t.co

2022-12-09 22:49:47 RT @random_walker: Voices in the Code is @dgrobinson's first book. David is a deep thinker and the book reflects it. https://t.co/Rpc9EKAJC

2022-12-09 22:49:29 RT @timnitGebru: I was gonna write about our first @DAIRInstitute retreat in Costa Rica where almost the whole team met in person for the 1…

2022-12-09 22:48:54 RT @MoniqueMunarini: Just read @Melissahei 's article at Politico: https://t.co/sXT29Z4mZ5 and the answer is always the same: We need to ta…

2022-12-09 22:47:09 RT @Abebab: "We critique because we care. If these companies can't release products meeting expectations of those most likely to be harmed…

2022-12-09 22:45:48 RT @jjvincent: "The system’s origins are unclear. One theory is that turning one-year-old at birth takes into account time spent in the wom…

2022-12-09 02:14:01 RT @judyhshen: @mmitchell_ai @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld There's also a whole line of work about diverse data summarization: https://t…

2022-12-09 01:19:00 RT @adjiboussodieng: PSA: A reminder for those reading recommendation letters in this admission cycle that different countries differ sign…

2022-12-08 20:40:12 @aryaman2020 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Oy @ryandcotterell 's like reminds us about perplexity and how it's the exponential of the Shannon entropy calculated with natural logarithms which maybe means perplexity is a kind of diversity metric. Hi, I'm just live-tweeting me and @SashaMTL chatting as we write a paper.

2022-12-08 20:36:41 @adjiboussodieng @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld <

2022-12-08 20:28:00 @RishiBommasani @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld oops, this will lead you there (link on right): https://t.co/09SwKJbxwz.

2022-12-08 20:26:28 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Yeah, ecology is definitely a treasure trove for diversity metrics. Was just discussing Shannon-Wiener diversity index as one of the most "basic" with @SashaMTL . Will go down that path some more. =). Thanks!

2022-12-08 20:20:38 @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @judyhshen Oh, there's definitely a ton of sources for diversity measurements, predating us (going back to at least early 1900s). I'm searching for "the most basic", with a citation. You're super relevant for what I'm working on due to your Instrinsic Evaluation paper.

2022-12-08 20:14:33 @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani This seems a good source for earlier measurements of diversity as well. https://t.co/46tbjnlj0w (also of course all the ecology literature)

2022-12-08 20:08:56 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Now I'm wondering if the best reference for using entropy for diversity is actually @adjiboussodieng !

2022-12-08 20:04:38 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Yeah, great call! @RishiBommasani , we are citing you a ton, super grateful for your input.

2022-12-08 19:56:46 @adjiboussodieng (We didn't have it in ours either)

2022-12-08 19:55:29 RT @cfiesler: ChatGPT says that its own creation was unethical, and then makes a number of suggestions for mitigating harm, none of which a…

2022-12-08 19:54:17 Tag maybe @adjiboussodieng -- looked through your paper but couldn't find a "this is most generic"/"first"/"basic" kinda thing.

2022-12-08 19:53:35 Lazy web: What is the most generic/general metric for "diversity" used in ML?

2022-12-08 18:19:57 RT @alexhanna: We were real excited to write about our time in CR, the things we learned, and the collaborations we were forging, but the e…

2022-12-08 17:19:04 RT @Melissa_Lem: Lessons learned: Do your due diligence when someone requests your time and expertise. Don’t hesitate to reach out to colle…

2022-12-08 17:18:51 RT @jjvincent: hot diggety dog — Beyond Measure has somehow snuck onto the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 list!! https://t.co/aFxxTneXTb h…

2022-12-08 17:18:43 @jjvincent No surprise there!! https://t.co/IKpzEQ064w

2022-12-08 13:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-12-07 08:00:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-11-15 17:22:14 RT @RebekahKTromble: They don’t even have a Data Protection Officer anymore. Having a DPO is the most basic of basic requirements under GDP…

2022-11-15 17:21:28 RT @erikashimizu: Join the launch party for the State of Women podcast today at 12pm PT/3pm ET! I'll be on an upcoming episode :) #TSOWPOD…

2022-11-15 17:20:26 RT @sina_lana: I'd happily read a blog post series where older scientists revisit their very early papers and explain what was good, what w…

2022-11-15 17:19:40 Great article on *estimating carbon footprint* of the @BigscienceW model, led by @SashaMTL!! “represents the most thorough, honest, and knowledgeable analysis of the carbon footprint of a large ML model to date”-- @strubell Thanks for covering, @Melissahei ! https://t.co/2nvz3kphBb

2022-11-15 17:12:52 RT @CaseyNewton: NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email. “We regret to…

2022-11-15 17:11:01 RT @RodrigoRallo: @skilldrick Twitter still having HR has the same vibes as bringing a defense attorney to a bank heist.

2022-11-15 17:01:08 @SaschaGriffiths @SashaMTL Oo what's the original textbook on psycholinguistics?

2022-11-14 18:43:50 I'm going to be in the Bay Area!See you there? https://t.co/Kx3gtIktYZ

2022-11-14 18:43:17 @KLdivergence I feel this. https://t.co/tebQdvPWJN

2022-11-14 17:18:03 RT @grimalkina: Github feature request, a banner that says "this person is going through a lot rn" and there's a button people can click th…

2022-11-14 17:17:36 @jjvincent Uncanny! =O

2022-11-14 15:42:18 RT @ericjang11: I wish @sequoia hadn't deleted https://t.co/tdAoRCI1G0it was a good article that gave me insight into @SBF_FTX and Alamed…

2022-11-14 15:34:05 RT @2plus2make5: (please retweet) I am taking CS PhD students! If you are interested in ML, data science, health, or inequality, please app…

2022-11-14 15:32:15 RT @EhudReiter: Tried new tutorial in my MSc class on Evaluation of AI: went through GPT3 prompting paper and discussed numerous evaluation…

2022-11-14 15:31:04 RT @vavacolor: This Wednesday, Nov 16th, at the 5th edition of #AIOASM, our experts share strategies and solutions to address #climate secu…

2022-11-14 03:20:54 RT @FAccTConference: We're so excited about next year's #FAccT23 Conference! Taking place in Chicago, in mid June, the General Chairs are A…

2022-11-14 03:20:40 RT @FAccTConference: Now's a great time to let the organisers of #FAccT23 know if you'd like to volunteer to help out, be considered for th…

2022-11-13 22:35:04 RT @deliprao: @aCraigPfeifer @mmitchell_ai Yeah, and the more who speak up the better. We shouldn’t put all the burden on career ethics res…

2022-11-12 19:55:42 @SashaMTL @rachelmetz THERE'S A MONARCH BUTTERFLY THAT CAN MAKE A CHRYSALIS!!That's what sold me.

2022-11-12 19:44:44 @witkoochocinco @huggingface @ClementDelangue Working with you is energizing!

2022-11-12 04:18:39 @Spoolses @CT_Bergstrom @histoftech I love this.

2022-11-12 02:39:58 @neilturkewitz @arvalis @FlyingTrilobite @kortizart Thank you for flagging! RT'ed.

2022-11-12 02:39:49 RT @arvalis: DeviantArt has decided your artwork there is fair game to be used in their new AI generator by default. You have to go to an o…

2022-11-12 02:39:40 RT @neilturkewitz: Spreading this as far &

2022-11-11 22:26:30 RT @nazneenrajani: Intuition: There are patterns to model failures. Can we extract those and give them natural language descriptions?Imag…

2022-11-11 22:25:53 @yoavgo You freaked me out! Thanks for thinking of it though.

2022-11-11 22:24:14 @SashaMTL @rajiinio @Abebab @timnitGebru @alexhanna Thank you to you and all these other wonderful nice people!!

2022-11-11 22:23:56 @SashaMTL @rajiinio @Abebab @timnitGebru @alexhanna One of the theories I have about why I worked less on purely(/myopically) statistical work, and more on sociotechnical work, is simply because the people are a lot nicer to me and so there's less internal pain associated with doing the work.

2022-11-11 19:56:06 @BigCodeProject Haha @IreneSolaiman for some reason this reminds me of you.

2022-11-11 19:45:24 @SashaMTL I have those living in my backyard forest!! Like watching magic

2022-11-11 02:04:38 @jjvincent It's so good!!! If we ever meet IRL I hope I can have you sign it.

2022-11-10 22:05:25 FTC is prepared to fine Twitter $1,500,000,000 for privacy &

2022-11-10 22:01:02 RT @le_roux_nicolas: I just want to give a shoutout to @Abebab . I am always baffled by the quality of her research and the relevance of th…

2022-11-10 20:47:55 Another day another exciting nerd book, this one by @jjvincent !MEASUREMENT you all. It's the new thing. You'll see. https://t.co/usYUlL9clo

2022-11-10 20:29:49 @d_j_sutherland @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora The name indexes a whole event, and several people (not just me), so I'd be hesitant to claim it alone instead of having the name rightfully owned by the several erased authors behind the scenes...

2022-11-10 20:27:30 Want help finding systematic bugs in your models? Check out this great work led by @nazneenrajani ! To be presented at EMNLP. https://t.co/0gvJ99Djdo

2022-11-10 20:26:13 RT @nazneenrajani: Our paper on Systematic Error Analysis and Labeling (SEAL) has been accepted at EMNLP demo track Problem: How can w…

2022-11-10 15:52:17 RT @osanseviero: How to stress test Arxiv https://t.co/m4KAUXjZ1x

2022-11-10 15:52:02 RT @SashaMTL: I'm honestly surprised we didn't crash it The BLOOM paper is live, check it out for all the details about the model!

2022-11-10 15:46:57 RT @CaseyNewton: According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resi…

2022-11-10 15:46:33 RT @CaseyNewton: “All of this is extremely dangerous for our users,” the message says. “Given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BIL…

2022-11-09 22:02:50 RT @haydenfield: calling all tech workers: I'm working on a story about your feelings about job security right now. will protect your ident…

2022-11-09 22:00:08 Former METAmates and FAIRies!Did you work on AI Safety* features like watermarking, data consent, explicit content? Please apply https://t.co/iYJDa5znl8*Not the Effective Altruism-laden-AI-Safety. I'm hesitant to use the "AI Safety" term.

2022-11-09 21:59:04 RT @VminVsky: With more and more models being trained on public data it is becoming increasingly important to understand how to balance cor…

2022-11-09 21:50:08 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora Grr on the long-term ramifications for many of our careers at the hands of Google! Grr!That's me being as coherent as I can be heh.

2022-11-09 21:49:25 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora I have stuff to say about this--as one of several authors whose h-indices are lower bc they cannot include this work + ALSO cannot make up for it w similar work in other papers (bc it's already written). But can't focus long enough on Google crapola to make the point coherently.

2022-11-09 21:44:45 RT @alexhanna: From what I'm seeing on LinkedIn, it looks like a lot of the Meta layoffs were of UX/UI research, typically staffed by socia…

2022-11-09 17:36:34 RT @timnitGebru: In a tweet, he argued: "The Saudis could have cashed out, like most everyone else. That would have been the financially so…

2022-11-09 17:34:55 RT @DataSciBae: I’m back on the job market folks! If your team is looking for a Data Scientist with a background in fairness/algo audits le…

2022-11-09 17:34:08 RT @StevenLevy: I spent months reporting on the @OversightBoard Meta set up to second-guess it. The board actually wants to fundamentally c…

2022-11-09 17:31:21 RT @joao_gante: Text generation is the cornerstone of many NLP tasks, and Hugging Face has cool news for you!Instead of announcing a ne…

2022-11-09 17:26:46 RT @dsn_ai_network: With just about 26% of ladies holding Tech Roles, it is time more ladies get into Tech.Join our @dsnladies_in_ai Twit…

2022-11-09 03:23:07 @emilymbender Good call.

2022-11-09 03:23:02 RT @emilymbender: Is anyone tracking the vocabulary springing up around #TwitterMigration? I've seen "twefugees" and "birdsite expats" at l…

2022-11-09 03:21:33 @shengokai @histoftech Yah, I saw there was 1 retweet, but retweeting was grayed out for me, and I thought "hunh."

2022-11-09 03:20:15 @histoftech Sorry it worked! I saw I couldn't retweet and got caught up in what the article was saying.

2022-11-09 02:38:30 RT @merbroussard: Have you looked at the People’s Guide to Algorithmic Bias yet? @kingavriel’s work really shines in this project!

2022-11-09 02:38:12 RT @ruchowdh: It’s beautiful that this work came out as Twitter implodes. This was the last thing I worked on as Parity CEO before making t…

2022-11-09 02:33:03 RT @ruthstarkman: Envisioning Paths: Individual and Collective Action for Technology Development. @emilymbender and @mmitchell_ai …

2022-11-09 02:32:23 RT: https://t.co/BhVYIaOljd

2022-11-09 02:28:20 @nlpnyc This is the question so many people ask/you can probably see a lot of discussions on this on this site.Personally, I think that line of reasoning requires a foundation where "human brain" is directly comparable to "ML model", and I don't share that foundation.

2022-11-08 16:49:45 Who has tools to identify creators -- and how to contact them -- in data that gets scraped?HMU!

2022-11-08 16:42:46 RT @rachelmetz: Right now Mastodon is the 15th most popular free app in the iOS App Store. Twitter is 17th. https://t.co/Rr4FIq9WBP

2022-11-08 16:26:23 The first class action lawsuit for AI models that generate content based on other peoples' work, without their consent. Fundamental to AI systems released over the past few months. Stay tuned. https://t.co/tLDHfkWxqE

2022-11-08 16:19:58 RT @DocSparse: @github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL licens…

2022-11-08 16:14:00 RT @TheZachMueller: Remember that it's perfect okay to just go to the gym and do what you feel like, even if it's not part of a program or…

2022-11-08 05:47:03 RT @leftoblique: If Twitter workers who were "laid off" but are still technically employed for 2-3 months voted to join a union, would that…

2022-11-08 02:24:06 @SashaMTL @struthious They definitely need to be chocolate that LOOK like rocks.

2022-11-08 00:07:54 @mickeymcmanus @GalaxyKate Not sure if there are potential @huggingface creativity-focused internships, but tagging here just in case! =)

2022-11-07 22:42:26 And those I couldn't find the twitter handles of: Huu Nguyen, Maraim Masoud, Gérard Dupont, and Isaac Johnson!

2022-11-07 22:41:15 @BigscienceW @FAccTConference @YJernite @BlancheMinerva @annargrs @valdanchev @samsontmr @SashaMTL @nsubramani23 @JesseDodge @kylelostat @ZeerakTalat @dragomir_radev @smnikpoor @FrohbergJorg @SkyLi0n @PeterHndrsn @RishiBommasani 2/

2022-11-07 22:34:46 The @BigscienceW Data Governance paper (presented at @FAccTConference) is now updated on Arxiv.https://t.co/2hgSZhPyNz. -->

2022-11-07 20:08:42 RT @mer__edith: Stories in Signal!Just updates from your friends. No endless ads, spammy suggested content, or influencers making slime.…

2022-11-07 19:57:20 @soldni So good.

2022-11-07 19:56:21 Wow, what an ass. Free Speech doesn't mean we have to listen to you.https://t.co/7PZbmgumAs https://t.co/P2UqMKv8IX https://t.co/QGdNSnjkCF

2022-11-07 19:26:20 Former Tweeps!Did you work on AI Safety* features like watermarking, data consent, explicit content? Please apply https://t.co/iYJDa5znl8*Not the Effective Altruism-laden-AI-Safety. I'm hesitant to use the "AI Safety" term.

2022-11-07 18:59:27 RT @baxterkb: I'm curious if any of the Twitter folks in the META (#AIethics), BirdWatch, #HumanRights, or #Accessibility teams received an…

2022-11-07 18:54:07 @KateKayeReports @ruchowdh @atg_abhishek Yeah, the unquestioned supremacy of "democracy" stresses me out. Really curious what you have to say about it.

2022-11-07 18:51:52 @SashaMTL @huggingface Congratulations!!! Put it on the CV!!Well deserved!! https://t.co/3oP23pc5TD

2022-11-07 18:50:15 RT @SashaMTL: My stochastic parrot costume won the @huggingface Halloween costume contest!! This may be my biggest achievement yet

2022-11-07 18:20:47 RT @SashaMTL: Couldn't get Open AI to give me API credits so I'm burning through piles of cash but.. stay tuned for the Dall-E 2 version of…

2022-11-07 18:20:36 RT @SashaMTL: The @BigscienceW carbon footprint paper is live!! Check it out to see how we calculated BLOOM's carbon footprint, covering…

2022-11-07 17:47:11 - Open code dataset- For LLMs-as-code generators- Modernizing consent and licensing mechanisms (but more to do).@huggingface now introducing "The Stack".https://t.co/WQuYzX9Ws2https://t.co/6gx1WXT2sO

2022-11-07 17:18:28 RT @random_walker: I’m excited to co-organize a symposium on algorithmic amplification with @KGlennBass at Columbia's Knight Institute (@kn…

2022-11-07 17:11:20 RT @random_walker: Like many people, at first I approached Mastodon as a Twitter alternative since they have similar functionality. But in…

2022-11-07 17:10:42 RT @_nateraw: Huge opportunity rn to open source a twitter alternative but not one where you have to join a specific server...mastodon is s…

2022-11-06 19:30:38 RT @JAManfredi: Tweeps , if you’re in Seattle, New York, or Pittsburgh (or willing to relocate) we have a ton of roles open @duolingo fo…

2022-11-05 18:10:00 RT @ShannonRSingh: Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company.I am enormously proud…

2022-11-05 18:09:39 RT @summerbrennan: Oh yeah as an underemployed writer, I'm totally fine with losing a 90K-person platform built up over thirteen years, whe…

2022-11-05 18:08:44 RT @tweetanor: Alright ex-Tweeps, I work for you now! CV feedback? Send it overWant intros? I can helpMock interviews? Would love toWa…

2022-11-05 04:04:23 @emilymbender @complingy @yuvalpi +1

2022-11-05 03:15:01 RT @benjedwards: @rachelmetz @mmitchell_ai Right there with you!

2022-11-05 03:05:21 RT @rachelmetz: Wait but if like half of Twitter no longer works at Twitter… couldn’t they get together and make a new, better Twitter?

2022-11-05 01:16:58 RT @KLdivergence: The META team was something special. Thank you to @__lucab for your leadership in recognizing the need for a team like th…

2022-11-05 01:16:10 RT @lizthegrey: Fuck. One of my canaries for "is user data at Twitter at risk" is out, according to LinkedIn data. Probably laid off yester…

2022-11-05 01:00:49 RT @tracyfrey: Meg and the @huggingface team are doing amazing things! I hear great things about working there across the board too, and wo…

2022-11-04 20:08:11 @aweiss @mcmillen Seriously.

2022-11-04 19:55:15 @aweiss @mcmillen Really puts the importance of sticking within the 80-character limit in a whole new light.

2022-11-04 19:11:52 All my love to @ruchowdh @KLdivergence and others at Twitter who were doing the hard work of ethics in tech. Appreciate you. https://t.co/CZbL35s9ls

2022-11-04 18:53:13 @mcmillen Yep.

2022-11-04 18:52:03 Twitter friends recently fired, @huggingface continues to be interested in hiring people who can understand both ML/stats and ethics. It's a unique blend of skills that's rare to find and I know several of you have it. If not , you will find a great position somewhere.

2022-11-04 18:33:56 RT @megyoung0: When Timnit and Meg were fired, it felt like the end of some age of relative innocence for AI ethics, in which a tech compan…

2022-11-04 18:33:19 RT @haydenfield: Members of Twitter's ethical AI team learned they had been laid off early this morning, according to tweets by those affec…

2022-11-04 18:33:00 RT @timnitGebru: When a billionaire’s whim, just like that, erases what these women have worked on while fighting an uphill battle so that…

2022-11-04 18:32:34 RT @MoharChat: I'm writing about the #TwitterLayoffs on the public policy and trust and safety teams today for @politico - if anyone who wa…

2022-11-04 18:31:40 @cajundiscordian @lmanul Love that guy.

2022-11-04 18:31:31 RT @cajundiscordian: @mmitchell_ai @lmanul is posting updates on the suit they've already filed

2022-11-04 18:23:27 @KLdivergence ! Take the day dear. Take a week.

2022-11-04 18:22:20 @lilianedwards @timnitGebru I also didn't have the option of getting my stuff. They stole my bike, afaik.

2022-11-04 18:21:19 @lilianedwards @timnitGebru and I found out the same way. Just no longer could log in. Timnit eventually got an email to her personal mail.In my case, it was up to me to email peoples' addresses I could remember to ask for any more details, like if I'd be getting severance (no).

2022-11-04 18:18:37 Class action lawsuit coming ? https://t.co/0nDBMwxQJh

2022-11-04 18:16:02 RT @lmanul: Was not planning on doing anything like this initially... But... Look Ma I'm suing Twitter. https://t.co/xxdO0bA4ZV

2022-11-04 18:13:47 @jachiam0 @deliprao

2022-11-04 18:12:43 RT @GalenMittermann: @hankgreen @elonmusk https://t.co/KuW9cbP8TM

2022-11-04 05:08:50 @KLdivergence

2022-11-04 05:03:26 RT @lamechthinkbig: @Silimund @OpenAI Then it should not do anything. Just like we humans say I do not know. AI should learn to say “I do n…

2022-11-04 05:01:02 @EricaJoy Probably very few.

2022-11-04 04:59:23 @ruchowdh Such a shit way to find out, I found out I was fired from Google in a similar way. =(Thank you for everything you did there, Twitter was better for it.

2022-11-04 02:50:19 RT @ruchowdh: I’m so glad joan shared this because it needs to be out in the world

2022-11-04 02:28:22 RT @mdekstrand: what's the "you might lose your job because the new boss is an imbecilic ass" version of hugops?whatever that is, sending…

2022-11-04 02:27:52 @mark_riedl https://t.co/KXdyZhuIh3

2022-11-03 22:46:44 RT @jjvincent: Measurements! They’re also happening in America… the land of opportunity for gallons, feet, and pounds

2022-11-03 22:46:31 RT @cfiesler: I'm just gonna say it, I was in @TheAtlantic and @nytimes on THE SAME DAY on totally different topics and I still am not nota…

2022-11-03 22:45:25 RT @osanseviero: Demo for Protein Folding with ESMFold https://t.co/lWzEVzqrY0Released by @MetaAI early this week, ESMFold allows doin…

2022-11-03 22:43:46 RT @polotek: I just have to say out loud what I haven't heard. The Tesla engineers are probably being brought in because they're loyal to M…

2022-11-03 21:06:36 RT @lamechthinkbig: The other day I tried DALLE-E @OpenAI Crazy and what the algorithm does when you give it African names . Is this a co…

2022-11-03 20:36:02 RT @cfiesler: I wrote for @ConversationUS about our research on online platform migration and what I think it suggests about a potential #T…

2022-11-03 20:34:57 RT @TristanThrush: What do people want more of this fall? According to our internet snapshots, it's drugs , money , and romance (in tha…

2022-11-03 20:34:34 @cherthedev Got hat swag from an event and now Mildred is very happy with her new "toy". https://t.co/G4BFI1hG1p

2022-11-03 20:21:22 @mark_riedl @zehavoc I read "Tea with Harvesting People", similar theme.

2022-11-03 20:19:07 RT @SashaMTL: Amazing thread by @dwddao about the power differentials happening at COP. I had no idea it went down like this but I can't s…

2022-11-03 20:18:25 @IreneSolaiman Hahah, yes!

2022-11-03 20:18:14 @IreneSolaiman Awwwwwwwwwwwwww love gamer mouse

2022-11-03 20:16:10 @TaliaRinger Yaay!! When when? Can we say hi?

2022-11-03 02:14:51 RT @PartnershipAI: Is building ethical AI being done at the expense of practitioners' well-being? Some think so. Really important stories…

2022-11-03 00:25:30 @SashaMTL I keep starting to read them thinking they're saying something insightful and interesting and then...nope, upon closer inspection are not insightful at all. https://t.co/LQvkPVNDBf

2022-11-03 00:23:20 @SashaMTL (Had to reload a few times to get a set that weren't horrendous)

2022-11-03 00:23:06 @SashaMTL https://t.co/YWm31AkHc3

2022-11-02 22:56:01 @SashaMTL Mine are all about employment, values, and feeling bad. =(

2022-11-02 20:14:10 RT @alexhanna: You can catch the recording of our stream with @shengokai @negar_rz and @WITWhat about AI Art over at YouTube!And mark you…

2022-11-02 18:44:04 @laurenceb Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. =)

2022-11-02 16:24:09 RT @meazaG_: In today's @TwitterSpaces series, @TigrayACNA will bring together formidable allies &

2022-11-02 16:23:47 RT @IreneSolaiman: What fun!!Talking about how there's no "technical magic button" for complex societal problems feels v apt for Twitter

2022-11-02 16:22:55 RT @annargrs: New blog post: the attribution problem with generative AI#NLProc AI &

2022-11-02 16:21:53 https://t.co/GvmQFdpVHy

2022-11-02 16:18:51 I really hope @huggingface gets to collaborate with @mozilla more. https://t.co/Q1S9EChqcd

2022-11-02 16:16:51 @IreneSolaiman Nice!!

2022-11-02 16:16:24 RT @fwd50conf: Thank you @IreneSolaiman @huggingface for explaining the uses of AI, the dangers of biases, and how we can leverage it for a…

2022-11-02 16:04:17 @AgnesCallard Please don't hurt them more because of responses to your Twitter.

2022-11-02 03:40:23 RT @abhishkTo: @mmitchell_ai "Network of open-source distributed servers..."Perhaps a translation for non-tech folks to make it more appe…

2022-11-02 01:56:29 RT @alexhanna: .@adrienneandgp and @timnitGebru were on one of my favorite radio programs -- @KQEDForum -- talking about data laborers who…

2022-11-02 01:20:32 RT @timnitGebru: “She wondered if the model’s creator simply didn’t think of her as a person. “I kind of feel like when they created the to…

2022-11-02 01:20:17 RT @utunga: The generative art/AI industry is driving straight off an ethical cliff at full speed - knowing full well what they are doing a…

2022-11-01 23:12:08 Partner: So where is everyone going instead of Twitter now?Me: Mastodon.Partner: Oh okay I'll get that.Me: Yeah it's a network of open-source distributed servers where you cluster---Partner: Nope nope nope. Lost and bored already, will not be getting that.

2022-11-01 22:18:08 @shubroski Woah!

2022-11-01 22:12:53 @SashaMTL @rachelmetz @KevinKaichuang They're calling it a language model and I can't get over that to pay attention to anything else.

2022-11-01 22:11:47 Wait, what? AI people, are you(/we) starting to call any self-supervised model trained on sequences a large language model? That's...confusing. And is going to break the general public's brain. (Also mine.)https://t.co/PfdOpp98nZ

2022-11-01 22:04:12 RT @SashaMTL: Best AI tool I have had the pleasure of working on.. check it out to help identify butterflies in your area!

2022-11-01 22:02:38 @vlordier @SashaMTL @KyleBarr5 ...Nothing in any of this is in disagreement with you.Sasha's awesome contribution is making it easy for anyone to interact with model biases, immersing them in the specific process of perturbations for bias testing.

2022-11-01 19:42:41 @mikarv @sarahbmyers @IEthics @random_walker @rajiinio Okay, great!! Assuming it will show up here tomorrow: https://t.co/Tn4uAQZlfK

2022-11-01 19:36:21 RT @SIfill_: Justice Thomas: says he doesn’t understand what diversity means. What are the educational benefits of a diverse student body?…

2022-11-01 19:35:18 @sarahbmyers @IEthics @random_walker @mikarv @rajiinio Oh darn, missed that this was happening! Was it recorded?

2022-11-01 19:33:16 @beausievers I would never want to join a tweet thread that would have me as a commenter.

2022-11-01 19:32:19 RT @DAIRInstitute: “One of the big problems with large language models is they’re generally trained on data that is not well documented,” s…

2022-11-01 19:31:57 @juancopi81 Yeah. =(

2022-11-01 19:31:39 "Artificial intelligence researcher for Hugging Face, @SashaMTL, created a simple tool that offers perhaps the most effective way to show biases in the machine learning model that creates images."Thanks @KyleBarr5, yay Sasha!Tool: https://t.co/cXQio7Tedihttps://t.co/V24R2tCL8U

2022-11-01 18:42:28 RT @ovalle_elia: If you do any AI fairness/ethics research, this is some solid insight by @ruchowdh and @mmitchell_ai, where they discuss h…

2022-11-01 18:16:00 @beausievers That's not sampling from a uniform distribution then. That's using (intentional) selection bias.

2022-11-01 18:14:30 @beausievers Oh shit! Does means engaging with your post is a red flag???

2022-11-01 18:13:19 @beausievers Perhaps you're saying a uniform distribution over all people tho.

2022-11-01 18:12:11 @beausievers I don't think 2 is correct, since a uniform distribution *over space and time* would have people as a very very rare event.

2022-11-01 16:25:49 RT @ClementDelangue: A year ago, we were lucky enough that the @Gradio team accepted to join us @huggingface. Today we can start saying tha…

2022-11-01 16:25:02 RT @emilymbender: Today's lesson in detecting #AIhype with linguistics: 1. X does Y even less than Z is technically true if X does Y not at…

2022-11-01 04:14:14 RT @DJWeduwen: What if we all just migrate over to the same google doc

2022-11-01 04:14:04 @histoftech Omg that made me laugh out loud.

2022-11-01 02:00:24 RT @joinmastodon: Looks like hosting your own Mastodon server is going to cost less than paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter. Except whe…

2022-11-01 01:44:33 @TaliaRinger That was the moniker bequeathed unto me by @jovialjoy!

2022-11-01 01:41:46 RT @veenadubal: I’ve lost about one thousand followers since Musk took over and I’m honestly in awe that I had so many principled people fo…

2022-11-01 01:39:04 @CarlaHustedt @Melissahei @ruchowdh @atg_abhishek Great point.

2022-10-31 22:04:33 @SashaMTL Hahaha "combining slashes and dots until a thing happens" hahaha.

2022-10-31 18:47:27 RT @JennySahng: The tech sector should demand more from venture capitalists to “recognize the fact that they need to pay more for technolog…

2022-10-31 18:44:22 RT @willknight: Very interesting tool from @SashaMTL for exploring bias in Stable Diffusion. Important given how many startups are rushing…

2022-10-31 18:43:24 RT @emilymbender: This is such a key point: if we are to disrupt and prevent genocide, we need to know how to recognize it in action. In th…

2022-10-31 17:23:36 RT @douwekiela: Great tool for exploring (the many) biases in Stable Diffusion:

2022-10-31 17:23:27 RT @YJernite: We need more tools to enable storytelling when engaging with bias in AI, here's one by the amazing @SashaMTL that can help g…

2022-10-31 17:18:28 RT @LinoCoria: I just tried emotional coach / outspoken coach#AI #AIbias https://t.co/1NJ2lZiBBI

2022-10-31 17:13:55 @SashaMTL @Sim_Startup_ @YJernite This is the key insight: By holding the seed stable, we can perturb. Really elegant solution for image bias testing of these models.

2022-10-31 15:50:56 RT @mikarv: The EU’s proposed Platform Work Directive has broadly well-drafted protections on algorithmic management—new digital rights for…

2022-10-31 15:48:56 RT @mervenoyann: in case you're wondering what people working at @huggingface are up to, we have an organization called huggingface-project…

2022-10-31 15:47:17 Counterfactual/perturbed bias testing for Diffusion models. https://t.co/yagjZTLIx0

2022-10-31 15:15:37 @SashaMTL !!!!! So cool!!!

2022-10-31 15:15:16 RT @SashaMTL: What could be scarier than a Stochastic Parrot? Complete with a t-shirt full of GPT quotes about the meaning of life, inclu…

2022-10-30 21:43:24 RT @DynamicWebPaige: Such an absolute gift of a paper, describing definitions for key terms and design considerations for natural languag…

2022-10-30 21:31:07 RT @TaliaRinger: Why is gender the only property of a person that is referenced linguistically in many languages in literally every single…

2022-10-30 21:23:43 RT @TheOneKloud: New on arXiv: a mathematical note on how to do diffusion directly over categorical distributions ! Introducing Simplex Dif…

2022-10-30 21:22:31 RT @HabenGirma: How do blind people use #Mastodon? I tried it and the Compose button does not work with VoiceOver (the screenreader blind p…

2022-10-30 20:55:36 RT @IEthics: "All the practitioners... interviewed spoke enthusiastically about their work: it is fueled by passion, a sense of urgency, an…

2022-10-30 20:55:00 RT @mcmillen: Free idea for anyone with a young kid: take a photo every month (?) in front of a greenscreen so that you can, in the future,…

2022-10-30 20:50:50 RT @MadamePratolung: @emilymbender @alexhanna Very much enjoying my first opportunity to hear Episode 1 of Mystery AI Hype Theater. In disc…

2022-10-30 20:42:48 RT @shengokai: Put simply, the cult belief that STEM is more rigorous, more "objective" than the humanities is not just one of the great tr…

2022-10-30 20:29:42 RT @film_girl: Labor attorneys please explain to me how Elon could do mass layoffs before vesting dates without filing WARN notices with th…

2022-10-30 20:28:50 @beausievers

2022-10-30 20:20:06 RT @daveyalba: NEW: Did hate speech really spike on Twitter after Musk closed on the deal to buy the company? … Yes. w/ @jackgillum @MargiM…

2022-10-30 19:59:35 @sethlazar (That's how I handle long flights anyway.)Then when we start landing it's like a pleasant surprise.

2022-10-30 19:58:38 @sethlazar You just have resign yourself to the fact that you live in that plane now. Don't check the time at your origin or destination, don't pay attention to how long you've been flying. You just live there now.

2022-10-30 19:56:35 @mark_riedl Ikr

2022-10-30 19:47:10 Errr why is this funny? This is a totally normal tech email to receive.(I'm a dummy not getting the joke.) https://t.co/8037Xr0cAB

2022-10-30 19:43:18 @TheZachMueller @jackclarkSF Cool . I was wondering for a moment if Jack was messing w us, like sliding in a totally random phrase and seeing if it stuck."I totally _stirred the batter/popped the cork/shined the shoe_ on this one!"Except "shit the bed" was surprisingly vulgar so I figured must be real.

2022-10-30 19:27:52 @jackclarkSF Is "I totally shit the bed" a saying?

2022-10-30 19:23:38 “Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.” https://t.co/I1GgAV5cqM

2022-10-30 19:18:45 @quantadan @KLdivergence +1

2022-10-30 00:07:39 RT @geomblog: Between the Meta crash, the #twitterMigration, and the zeitgeist around social media, I feel a real moment of opportunity for…

2022-10-29 17:53:25 RT @cfiesler: Two years ago we published a paper about online community migration, and I think the findings and recommendations are relevan…

2022-10-29 17:52:27 RT @abrahampiper: The first documented instance of the kind of “like” that kids — and especially girls — are blamed and ridiculed for…is fr…

2022-10-29 02:46:11 @mark_riedl These are incredible.

2022-10-29 02:44:38 @emilymbender @JakeAziz1 I did Old English!

2022-10-29 02:43:39 RT @ShannonVallor: I may not use this site for much longer (follow me on Mastodon) but I wanted to share some thoughts about my deep gratit…

2022-10-29 01:48:50 @andrewthesmart 2 cool+ 2 be =4 gotten

2022-10-29 01:43:14 RT @iFrankFagan: Khan &

2022-10-29 01:25:31 RT @olapiktus: The ability to search through training corpora with #nocode is necessary to build a shared understanding of common pitfalls…

2022-10-29 00:57:25 RT @robyncaplan: I just feel like I'm already too old to play the "this new social network will surely solve the problems of the old social…

2022-10-28 16:58:56 RT @natfriedman: AI-generated ads targeting micro affinity groups, down to a single person, are going to be a very big deal. Didn't expect…

2022-10-28 16:57:56 RT @tegan_maharaj: I mostly avoid statements thatcould be inflammatory, but I care deeply about the longterm future and am sick of seeing m…

2022-10-28 16:57:00 Useful thread on compensatiom for those of you thinking abt joining tech startups. https://t.co/QAZagwx5g3

2022-10-28 16:53:28 RT @bentarnoff: I'm firmly in the anti-technofeudalism camp, but the thesis has a grain of truth to it, in that Google, Facebook, and Amazo…

2022-10-28 16:37:53 @SashaMTL I mean, if YOUR job was to make pasta, why wouldn't you also make it scrabble?!

2022-10-28 16:34:24 @SashaMTL Are all letters actually equal probability tho?

2022-10-28 16:33:54 @olapiktus p.s. If you see your own data, and want it removed, let one of us know. @huggingface is also beginning to roll out tools for contestation/removal requests, more later.

2022-10-28 16:32:57 Have you ever thought, "OK so there's a lot of data behind these large language models, what does that data actually look like?"HERE YOU GO! Full explorer for the entire corpus behind the BigScience BLOOM LLM!I AM SO GLAD THIS EXISTS!Yay for @olapiktus!!! https://t.co/F1gGJLhoTA

2022-10-28 16:28:16 @DrAlexVoss @baxterkb @ChloeAutio @VogelMiriam @nazneenrajani @BNonnecke @CummingsRenee @navrinasingh @latonero @mark_riedl @ElhamTabassi @ElamiteGG @amcrisan @AnimaAnandkumar @bobirakova Orly? That seems like too much work for social media, ha.Here's what I see when I'm logged in. https://t.co/7cV6fzcoY7

2022-10-28 15:59:32 @alexhanna @jw_lockhart

2022-10-28 15:58:48 RT @blockpartyapp_: We're seeing reports that a slice of Twitter may be intentionally testing boundaries on what types of speech will be al…

2022-10-28 15:54:58 @beausievers Isn't this a brain-reward thing? Something something dopamine?

2022-10-28 15:53:13 @beausievers @yeetgenstein <

2022-10-28 15:52:17 @beausievers @yeetgenstein I have a hard "don't tweet before coffee" rule and it significantly ups my cheery-twitter game.

2022-10-28 15:51:04 RT @ncri_io: Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify…

2022-10-28 15:38:59 @Melissahei @ruchowdh @atg_abhishek Appreciate this.

2022-10-28 15:38:07 I'm in the news today! Talking about depressing reality of ethical AI work, along w some great people who share insights on realities of responsible/ethical AI @ruchowdh@atg_abhishek @goffi_emmanuel. Thanks to @Melissahei for the care and reporting. https://t.co/RM1Omtwkfk https://t.co/0531MEshsg

2022-10-28 03:33:43 RT @CredoAI: "If you have diversity without inclusion, that means people don't feel welcome to say their thoughts at the table

2022-10-28 03:33:26 @sullyj3 Haha, yeah I definitely do that one.

2022-10-28 03:32:50 I'm constantly amazed by how quickly @nazneenrajani produces useful tools and fascinating results. https://t.co/GDENTczmYi

2022-10-24 02:14:52 RT @mark_riedl: Proceeds will be donated to the ACLUhttps://t.co/5LybWihx0r

2022-10-23 20:00:08 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl And YES I WANT ONE!!

2022-10-23 07:20:20 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl Hehehehehehhehehehehehee

2022-10-22 20:49:02 @SashaMTL (Related convo) student: I know several women at Google who've had to get lawyers because of what G was doing to them.Me: Yep?Student: So is that just a normal thing when you work in industry? Women have to have lawyers? It seems so weird and stressful.

2022-10-22 20:41:37 Partner: In the past 5 years, you, my sister, several of our female friends have had to get lawyers to fight unfair labor practices against them by their employer.Me: Yep?Partner: No men we know have had to do that. 0.Me: Yep?Partner: It's like there's a pattern or something.

2022-10-22 20:27:02 @LeonDerczynski And holy moly am I grateful.

2022-10-22 20:25:53 @osanseviero Hehe love that.

2022-10-22 20:25:09 @morganklauss Attractive cat girl!

2022-10-22 20:21:59 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-21 22:45:19 Thankful to @rachelmetz for this article. https://t.co/kyZWd0K3r6

2022-10-21 22:43:14 RT @rachelmetz: i spent the last month diving into the world of art and datasets, talking to artists whose work is included in the dataset…

2022-10-21 22:12:13 RT @ClementDelangue: I'll be there tonight in San Francisco! Organized by @natolambert @MadisenXTaylor &

2022-10-21 21:35:00 @DarceyNLP @davidweichiang Neat!!

2022-10-21 21:34:53 RT @DarceyNLP: Excited to share that @davidweichiang and my paper, "A Continuum of Generation Tasks for Investigating Length Bias and Degen…

2022-10-21 21:32:32 Had suchhh a good time at the Africa ↔ US Frontiers Symposium.This picture is kind of hilarious, can you find me? I'm the one who is dying from the sun.Thanks @yunyao_li for the invitation! https://t.co/eLSiCNmDWO

2022-10-21 21:28:06 @cherthedev WOW, nice!!!

2022-10-21 21:06:33 @sethlazar Middle-aged elf! Hahaha.

2022-10-21 21:01:16 @beausievers You can FIND YOURSELF IN LATENT SPACE.

2022-10-21 21:00:54 @beausievers Have you tried the thing where you take the description and put it back through SD? Too fun.

2022-10-21 20:50:30 @beausievers Link? Is this the clip interrogator one?

2022-10-21 20:48:15 @jmdembe @venikunche Constantly *try* to have coding time.

2022-10-21 20:47:03 RT @deliprao: You can’t fake values. I bet they don’t have a list of written down “values” or “tenets” that they read out to people at empl…

2022-10-21 20:46:56 RT @deliprao: The amazing thing about @huggingface is the employees who work there. I can hop on their channels and ask questions not even…

2022-10-21 18:23:47 @rctatman Me and my darling Wendell who I miss so much. https://t.co/3yZDimZqXN

2022-10-21 18:16:16 @rctatman So occasionally I'd be sitting in a meeting, and suddenly I'd hear a door SLAM SHUT and eventually would have to go rescue Wendell from the room he'd inevitably trapped himself in.

2022-10-21 18:15:29 @rctatman One of many things I loved about my old Great Dane Wendell was that he figured out how to open doors that were slightly ajar by slamming them open with his paw -- but couldn't tell the difference between a door that would OPEN if he slammed vs one that would SHUT. ... 1/

2022-10-21 18:10:17 @jmeowmeow Thank you! Happy to hear P-town cares.

2022-10-21 18:09:29 But as someone who has specialized in operationalizing ethics within tech companies, I (and maybe I alone) can see what a fundamentally different approach to tech development this is, and I couldn't feel happier or more grateful to play a part in it. /end

2022-10-21 18:07:51 In the world of tech, all of these things are likely just a minor blip not deserving too much attention.In the world of ethics, it's likely none of this will be recognized at all -- tech companies rarely (if ever?) get props for ethics-based operations (for good reason). 7/

2022-10-20 23:59:19 @mer__edith That tweet seems a bit "tell me you're a guy with tech-norm characteristics without telling me you're a guy with tech-norm characteristics"

2022-10-20 23:57:04 @scottjshapiro As someone who works on AI Ethics as a machine learning practitioner with a PhD in Computer Science, I hope you can understand that your tweet is belittling (and clearly uninformed).

2022-10-20 23:54:34 @SashaMTL The scarf hides the vampire bites!

2022-10-20 22:43:17 RT @athundt: This is how systems tend to work by design. Roll out a new automated algorithmic system with "strong policies" in place limiti…

2022-10-20 22:18:08 @natolambert CLOSE THE BROWSER

2022-10-20 22:14:55 @SashaMTL @willie_agnew hahaha so good

2022-10-20 22:14:44 RT @SashaMTL: @willie_agnew https://t.co/JB5rZxi2DD

2022-10-20 22:14:25 "The aim of competitions like this one is to create a new sector of experts who specialize in auditing AI."Nice details on Bias Bounty-ing &

2022-10-20 18:58:56 If you're like me, you've been obsessing over the relationship between ML datasets, tasks, and different task categorizations. While this revision to the @huggingface hub is far from perfect, we're working on it and would love further input! https://t.co/bKOHjPZnlb

2022-10-20 18:57:17 @SashaMTL It's a "non-exclusive" license, so that's something I think -- it could mean they don't solely own it, but can use it.It's probably good for folks thinking of participating to check with their pcounsels of their companies (should they have one).

2022-10-20 18:55:42 RT @mervenoyann: Filtering datasets are now even easier! We've aligned the dataset filters to the task you want to accomplish If you…

2022-10-20 03:34:49 This is flying into Seattle yesterday, and the AQI today. =( https://t.co/WMbUcPl1ls

2022-10-20 01:58:45 RT @navatintarev: Submission accepted to WSDM 2023: Beyond Digital ``Echo Chambers'': The Role of Viewpoint Diversity in Political Discussi…

2022-10-20 01:56:15 RT @rachelmetz: @avibarzeev @mmitchell_ai as a journalist, that would help me better explain to consumers how a system works

2022-10-19 21:01:57 @olivia_p_walker I definitely wear flare yoga pants and a blazer/sports jacket as a cute outfit!

2022-10-19 20:41:27 RT @ruthstarkman: @DAIRInstitute 2x anniversary party! First party Friday before @mmitchell_ai and @emilymbender speak in person @stanford.…

2022-10-19 20:33:05 @aleboz That could work! Also @roeldobbe is there too, right? Someone who's always cool to see. =)(also I 'Follow'ed you if you want to DM)

2022-10-19 20:31:10 @evanmiltenburg @Thom_Wolf I'm so down!

2022-10-19 18:41:49 (If you want me around ofc)

2022-10-19 18:41:38 I'll come say hi to you @Thom_Wolf for FREE, mostly because you're already compensating me.

2022-10-19 18:40:45 It looks like I may be in the Holland area the 2nd/3rd week of June. HMU if you want me to give a (compensated, sorry!) talk. I won't plan to be in Europe again for at least another year after that.

2022-10-19 18:10:34 RT @alexhanna: We're having an anniversary party and you're invited!

2022-10-19 18:10:09 @SashaMTL Uh oh.

2022-10-19 18:09:08 @BethALivingston

2022-10-19 16:48:44 @rachelmetz @avibarzeev Yes please!

2022-10-19 16:45:07 RT @tegan_maharaj: So happy to finally be able to share my PhD thesis!Are you interested in generalization of AI systems but feel like the…

2022-10-19 16:44:28 This is a key to Google's culture, shedding light on everything from why top managers are not competent at managing, to why the marginalization/belittlement of women's work results in slower promotional velocity. https://t.co/SrPzS8wT6J

2022-10-19 16:37:35 @IrishSQL @petewarden @NoelleRussell_ I want this.

2022-10-19 06:25:09 RT @e_salvaggio: You still cannot ask DALLE2 for a photograph of two women kissing, but you can get images of two women kissing if you tell…

2022-10-18 22:47:47 RT @v0max: As a researcher, it's not my responsibility to hide corporate malfeasance.I was just told it's unethical to study privacy comp…

2022-10-18 22:43:25 RT @random_walker: I was invited to give this year’s James Baldwin lecture at Princeton. My message: quantitative methods have become tools…

2022-10-18 22:41:12 RT @EdwardRaffML: Stoked for @fredlu_1618+team and his first @NeurIPSConf paper! Differential Privacy (DP) gives us strong tools to quantif…

2022-10-18 22:38:24 Tabular data classification support !!!! https://t.co/P6GTQBnKSa

2022-10-18 22:32:39 RT @MNehzati: I'm finally out of Iran and feel safe enough to talk about the situation publicly with an account bearing my name.The crackd…

2022-10-18 22:28:41 RT @rcalo: Must-read @TheAtlantic piece by @hypervisible. https://t.co/74uLjJtOmp

2022-10-18 22:27:59 There are so many moments in Computer Science where I feel the field isn't for "people like me", such as when a (proud) racist who's attacked my female friends is held up as a positive example. How many others are having this experience before their careers even start? https://t.co/eYUYBy1zMJ

2022-10-18 19:43:12 @tyler_m_john That's a bummer. =(It's problematic (along several dimensions) to contextualize interpretability from the standpoint of an incorrect schism, but if that doesn't seem different to you than saying (more simply, I believe) that interpretability is useful, there's'nt more to add.

2022-10-18 18:41:39 RT @UNGlobalPulse: "Why is an international data governance framework required?" New article by @UNGlobalPulse's Friederike Schüür and…

2022-10-18 18:11:11 @tyler_m_john Always happy to help if the goal is understanding!Will tend to bow out if the goal is to argue/win/marginalize or ignore what I'm saying.See thread: https://t.co/Z1c6cF5Mn5

2022-10-18 18:08:08 @ClementDelangue Awwwww, sad I couldn't see your faces in person!

2022-10-18 16:02:13 From Jack's linked article: "there is no US case squarely resolv­ing the fair-use ram­i­fi­ca­tions of AI train­ing."Whether it's legal to train on open source data, commercially w/o attribution, is a pressing legal question. Keep your eyes on this issue if you're into ethAI. https://t.co/H6RAdFrgwP

2022-10-18 15:49:48 @tyler_m_john Many agree on interpretability being useful

2022-10-17 21:48:37 I'll be there! https://t.co/1XSN2zunI1

2022-10-17 19:16:29 RT @le_science4all: New big video!!Today, I'm discussing Google's scientific #disinformation, which the science community has been danger…

2022-10-16 22:16:53 RT @david_rolnick: One symptom of the kinds of dataset biases that @SashaMTL and I found in ImageNet... (https://t.co/rSdT7ZNymj)

2022-10-16 22:16:13 RT @emilymbender: Hi folks -- time for another #AIhype take down + analysis of how the journalistic coverage relates to the underlying pape…

2022-10-16 22:15:59 RT @MilagrosMiceli: I’m incredibly honored by this recognition! In this paper we explore the discourses, practices, and tools that shap…

2022-10-16 22:15:12 RT @JulianPosada0: I'm thrilled that our paper “The Data-Production Dispositif,” co-written with @MilagrosMiceli, won THREE awards at #CSCW…

2022-10-16 18:49:50 RT @random_walker: 15 years ago my PhD advisor taught me One Weird Trick for editing your own writing. Edit **back to front**, paragraph by…

2022-10-16 12:42:11 RT @_KarenHao: In his speech today, Xi Jinping reiterated - as it expected - the importance of advancing science &

2022-10-16 12:41:28 @mark_riedl Whhhyyyy did you send this whyy

2022-10-16 12:39:18 @Abebab Wow!!!

2022-10-15 20:10:22 RT @mervenoyann: We've joined forces with @scikit_learn to support statistical machine learning models on @huggingface Hub you can read…

2022-10-15 20:09:44 RT @ruthstarkman: COOL Student RESEARCH: Are you a policy debater who's argued about China's Belt and Road Initiative in Africa? Please…

2022-10-15 18:00:45 RT @_alialkhatib: this story is fucking wildhttps://t.co/eJUiJAeLqq

2022-10-15 17:55:00 @sleepinyourhat @ai_skeptic These are characteristics of a troll/bot:- Just joined- Few followers- Joins conversations to say reductive strawmenI'm ... pretty disappointed you don't see this, I'll stop engaging. https://t.co/onljfdFKzL

2022-10-15 08:39:10 @ClementDelangue Me!

2022-10-15 08:36:12 @davidchalmers42 @rgblong - Focusing on AI interptetability has the potential to unify themes common to both short-term AI thinking (eg, current standard tasks) and long-term AI thinking (eg, the effects of general-purpose ML models on humanity).[Cut line on LLMs

2022-10-15 08:28:04 @davidchalmers42 @rgblong To hopefully also address your q, I might write a similar slide as:- AI interptetability provides insights into biases, safety, and the nature of a system's "reasoning".- AI intepretability therefore provides insights that cuts across several different research areas....

2022-10-15 08:09:50 @davidchalmers42 @rgblong Interptetability work is important, but to motivate it through a lens of division in this way serves a sub-sub- community while diminishing a lot of critical thinking (within safety, ethics, risk &

2022-10-07 23:01:56 Stochastic Parrot, according to DALL·E.Like a parrot, but the distribution of color seems random. =) (For the record: @emilymbender came up with the term.) https://t.co/cxc53B20C3

2022-10-07 21:47:56 Appreciation tweet for @ruthstarkman today, on her birthday. She is a powerful force changing the world of AI for the better.I'm so thankful for you, Ruth. https://t.co/jE3k8T30yp

2022-10-07 21:43:33 RT @cleong110: We are happy to announce that "Bloom Library: Multimodal Datasets in 300+ Languages for a Variety of Downstream Tasks" has b…

2022-10-07 21:43:02 @MelMitchell1 This is amazing.

2022-10-07 20:47:06 RT @rctatman: I've seen some confusion around this recently, so to clarify:- AI ethics/FAccT: evaluating &

2022-10-07 19:12:28 @vlordier Thanks for sharing.

2022-10-07 19:11:32 @Abebab I usually don't respond to those "just a coffee"/"have a chat"/"pick your brain". But when I do, which is usually because (eg) my mom needs dental work and I don't work at a fancy big tech company anymore to pay for it, I give my rates.A "pick my brain" sesh is at least $500.

2022-10-07 19:08:54 So @SashaMTL just came up with a really simple and elegant solution to do counterfactual/perturbations with generated images -- relevant to bias -- and I can't wait for her to tell people about it.

2022-10-07 18:56:18 Like many women scientists, I would be completely marginalized and erased if it weren't for people in positions of influence advocating for me.I'm so grateful, and very lucky, and reminding myself how important it is to advocate for other women when I can.

2022-10-07 18:54:34 Like many women scientists, my opportunities almost never come based on the work I do, or my qualifications.Like many women, to have opportunities where I'm qualified, people have to actively advocate for me.In this case, @IreneSolaiman helped connect behind the scenes.

2022-10-07 18:47:53 October 27th.So so so honored to be able to be a part of this with so many incredible people in AI Ethics.https://t.co/40qF4RFY8S

2022-10-07 17:28:31 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik (FWIW, I basically never trust humans to do the right things. )

2022-10-07 17:27:23 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik It's really clear that Twitter isn't working for working through the logic here together. o_O

2022-10-07 17:26:11 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik "The right things all the time"....?What are you talking about? I guess you're referring to something you said somewhere else? This seems like a bit of a non-sequitur response so I'm trying to understand what happened between my tweet and your response.

2022-10-07 17:23:56 @semigroupoid I liked the part about socks!

2022-10-07 17:22:05 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik Nowhere am I "expecting a [fundamental] behavior change" different than what's already happening.As a pub chair, we do ask that behavior is consistent with what the proceedings format requires...that's what making your paper "camera-ready" means.

2022-10-07 17:20:23 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik ...within the camera-ready format to do that. 2/

2022-10-07 17:18:48 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik I'm coming from a place where I've been a publication chair for years &

2022-10-07 17:14:51 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik The concepts of reproducibility and provenance are inherently tied to ethics.

2022-10-07 17:13:01 @deliprao @julien_c @SashaMTL @BoseShamik What? No. Your premise (opening sentence) is wrong, so I can't continue in good faith.

2022-10-06 16:27:38 RT @LeonDerczynski: New paper! Text data can contain harmful things, but unlike other disciplines, we don't have protocols for handling…

2022-10-05 22:06:01 Yes, you should be paid. If it's a successful tech company, no less than $1000 for an hour talk. https://t.co/44sgVUN5I8

2022-10-05 20:39:14 RT @AlexCEngler: Ok, my takes, once heated, are now cooled and fit for consumption. Like a soup.To understand the Blueprint for an AI Bil…

2022-10-05 16:02:37 RT @agstrait: Interested in helping Ada lead our data and AI policy work? We're looking for a new member of our senior leadership team to h…

2022-10-05 16:02:25 RT @chinhon: Been a while since I built a new @Gradio app cos of work, but couldn't resist building a quick one to test out @OpenAI's Whisp…

2022-10-05 03:20:00 RT @rajiinio: This is still my favourite kind of AI-related news: companies being cornered into taking concrete actions (ie. updating or re…

2022-10-05 03:19:17 RT @mathemakitten: has anyone using BERT in production been surprised by examples of real-life failure cases due to its outdated knowledge?…

2022-10-04 21:44:03 @SashaMTL This is my backyard right now!It's a great autumn day today.Shown: Looking upwards at an incline into a forest covered by fog. There are Douglas Firs rising into the sky, Salal and Sword Ferns on the ground, and you can see leaves of maples and a Dogwood on the sides. https://t.co/Hfd4GSRjmJ

2022-10-04 21:37:48 @SashaMTL "You prune ME? I prune YOU!"

2022-10-04 20:52:25 RT @andrewthesmart: the usual suspects pontificating on all the things because they made some machine learning models. turns out having a P…

2022-10-04 20:51:17 @SashaMTL Haha, damn, good caption. I was staring at that earlier trying to think of one but didn't think of anything interesting.

2022-10-04 18:08:12 @AmandaAskell @SureshVenkat46 @kdphd @Melissahei Yeah me too. I was like, *AI* rights before *human* rights with AI? Dammit government!

2022-10-04 16:38:34 This is a major milestone for US AI Ethics law. Brings in groundwork for:- Safety- Equity- Data Rights- Transparency- ConsentYay for @SureshVenkat46 and @kdphd 's work I know must underlie this! https://t.co/M0srKaAUM5Thanks for the reporting @Melissahei

2022-10-04 16:25:11 RT @JayAlammar: The Illustrated Stable Diffusionhttps://t.co/sbjKHP4PolNew post! Over 30 visuals explaining how Stable Diffusion work…

2022-10-03 23:24:52 RT @emilymbender: It's good that @wired is covering this and shedding light on the unregulated mess that is the application of chatbots (an…

2022-10-03 23:20:40 RT @emilymbender: Hey hey hey! Mystery AI Hype Theater episode 3 is now up on YouTube! https://t.co/2IVtpdfTBASome highlights of @alexh…

2022-10-03 23:10:13 @vlordier Thanks -- there is a lot to say that doesn't work in single tweet form, this helps.

2022-10-03 20:06:56 RT @FlyingTrilobite: Hey #AIart #Midjourney #stablediffusion #DALLE fans: Artists have done the readingWe’ve spent our careers trying…

2022-10-03 18:55:19 @Abebab

2022-10-03 17:32:14 When AI systems are launched, we should know *how well they work*.We've been building tools that lower barriers/obstacles to this @huggingface, so rigorous evaluation becomes trivial to do.This is an important release for what's hyped in AI right now.

2022-10-01 02:44:16 RT @korymath: Dramatron paper out! Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: An Evaluation by Industry Professiona…

2022-10-01 02:43:28 @karen_ec_levy @PrincetonUPress Nice!!!

2022-10-01 02:42:45 @alexhanna

2022-10-01 02:35:29 @sbmisi @timnitGebru Ooo love this idea

2022-09-30 17:57:04 @SashaMTL @tpoi Oh wow. OH and hence the dream-catcher thing. I see.Glad Canada has made a day to recognize the harm, and glad you're pushing for actually recognizing it.

2022-09-30 17:55:49 @WaltonStevenj @dlowd I imagine it will be a few years until we're at a point where it's super easy for anyone to create a lethal weapon based on a description.And: It will be here in a few years.By default, the response is "do nothing": I argue that doing something might be good.

2022-09-30 17:53:30 @stephaneghozzi @timnitGebru @DAIRInstitute @rajiinio Tag @ Japanese-fluent AI Ethics people I know @emilymbender @annargrs in case they have thoughts. =)

2022-09-30 17:52:32 @SashaMTL @tpoi Wait what's happening?<

2022-09-30 17:50:30 @dlowd In other words, *current* regulation on weapons will need to be *updated* in order to have the same control given how easy weapon creation will soon become.

2022-09-30 17:49:29 @dlowd Countries where owning a gun is difficult/illegal don't have the volume of gun violence as countries where having a gun is super easy.-->

2022-09-30 17:47:18 @dlowd All of the above--isn't binary "this is worrisome/this isn't" (as you know). My perspective is the numbers/how likely things become.Knives can cause mortal harm.Knives AND guns can cause (more) mortal harm.Knives AND guns that can't be tracked can cause (more more) mortal harm

2022-09-30 17:43:29 @DarceyNLP I voted!! We have 1 day left until I can reveal!

2022-09-30 17:23:21 @DarceyNLP Surprised I have strong feelings about this.Actually....I'm not surprised.

2022-09-30 17:22:27 Yep: "Pitfall 15. Limitations addressed in a “skeptics” framing: Limitations of AI tools can be caveated in the framing of the article by positioning experts who explain these limitations as skeptics who don’t see the true potential of AI"@emilymbender has dealt w this directly https://t.co/nlwkgtStOn

2022-09-30 17:15:13 @dlowd "Also make it super super sharp so it can cut things" -- 7 year old.

2022-09-30 17:14:53 @dlowd "you don't need endless flexibility" != "there is an equal risk of mortal damage when super flexible tools to create real weapons exist"

2022-09-30 17:11:18 @yoavgo @soldni it's hyper triggering + high stakes + horrific + something I don't actually know anything about.But I do want a deeper understanding of synthetic pornography in the decisions wrt these systems.

2022-09-30 17:09:45 @yoavgo @soldni I don't know if violence and sex work similarly in the mind, and if lessons we've learned in the past about fake-violence can be transferred to fake-sex. It's at this point, though, that I tend to end my thoughts on this with journalists because...2/n

2022-09-30 17:08:26 @yoavgo @soldni Right, but it goes to the question about whether it further fosters paedophilia -->

2022-09-30 17:05:17 @emilymbender @random_walker @benbendc @aimyths @LSivadas @SabrinaArgoub @GeorgetownCPT Welp, I've convinced myself.

2022-09-29 15:24:12 @ruthstarkman Love it!

2022-09-29 15:22:23 RT @timnitGebru: project to understand how members of that community reason about the ethics of their work. We found that notions of the “F…

2022-09-29 05:29:44 RT @unsojo: Social scientists and historians, have you:1. had great data but not enough labels2. wanted to try ML but the barrier to ent…

2022-09-28 19:36:50 @_nateraw @adrinjalali That's how it works!

2022-09-28 19:36:20 @rachelmetz What the computer is doing can be said to be "shopping".What you are doing can be said to be "buying".In general, Google centers the tech (not the people).

2022-09-28 19:34:39 @_nateraw @adrinjalali My solution is to name that person first and foremost the *next* time I list off names in a project they're involved in.And then I forget someone else! So at least everyone is equally left out. o_O

2022-09-28 19:25:26 RT @mervenoyann: Have a machine learning library? Want to let users programmatically document trained models? Introducing: Model Cards …

2022-09-28 19:24:32 Part of why I joined @huggingface was because these artifacts were a priority there. I wanted to help lower the barrier to creating them -- only to find people across the company were already working on it!

2022-09-28 19:22:13 Today @huggingface launches a set of tools to make the creation of Model Cards (and Dataset Cards!) easier.THANK YOU to people across multiple teams who made this real!!And more to come! https://t.co/R8np6wLcCj

2022-09-28 19:19:02 @_nateraw @adrinjalali I *always* end up leaving out 1 person for every 4 I mention. I don't know why that happens!

2022-09-28 16:41:19 Great to see recognition of @IfeomaOzoma! https://t.co/ACPpigVP68

2022-09-28 16:25:28 @ericacbarnett @MayorofSeattle Nooo!

2022-09-28 16:24:13 @emilymbender @MayorofSeattle @SeattleCouncil Yes! Thank you for breaking this down.

2022-09-28 16:22:47 RT @emilymbender: Let's do a little #AIhype analysis, shall we? Shotspotter claims to be able to detect gunshots from audio, and its use ca…

2022-09-28 16:19:49 RT @alienelf: I will no longer be speaking @panafriconai due to the guest of honour: Ethiopian prime minister. The seige of Tigray is an in…

2022-09-28 16:18:40 RT @mer__edith: We understand that the Play Store and the Signal site are currently blocked in Iran. So we created an email address: gets…

2022-09-28 16:16:06 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Dear academic and activist colleagues,Here is a statement calling for (more) transnational solidarity with Iranians fightin…

2022-09-28 02:26:30 RT @timnitGebru: No insulin at Tigray's largest hospital so she was pronounced dead. Zero insulin access for millions of people. The cruelt…

2022-09-28 02:25:46 RT @TaliaRinger: @timnitGebru Another great point: having independence the way they do at @DAIRInstitute means that they can focus on under…

2022-09-28 02:24:32 RT @Abebab: No. Data scraped from the web, which is mostly toxic waste, does NOT reflect the world as it is

2022-09-27 23:52:22 RT @ZeerakTalat: So the North American job market is starting to open up so here to say: I am on the market this year. My expertise is in…

2022-09-27 23:16:57 RT @KyleJacinto5: @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @SamaAI Yeah, I know of a few companies who pulled out of contracts w/Sama because of this. In…

2022-09-25 02:25:00 RT @timnitGebru: A @ruthstarkman appreciation tweet. A woman with endless energy and hope for a better future. We are all lucky to have yo…

2022-09-24 18:48:06 Odd typo. Let's pretend I meant P(misinformation)

2022-09-24 18:46:48 Public awareness of AI risk is critical to staying ahead of the foreseeable harms. I think about scamming and Pmisinformation a LOT. https://t.co/qoznWNee20

2022-09-24 18:44:11 RT @darafaye: I saw a tiktok of someone saying Adam Levine looks like a chipotle bag and I can’t stop thinking about it. https://t.co/mKeiM

2022-09-24 18:39:46 @beausievers Relevant:https://t.co/FIYryjxV7s

2022-09-24 18:26:06 RT @geomblog: Great article by @kashhill on the Follower - the reconstruction of how Instagram pictures are taken by using surveillance cam…

2022-09-24 18:24:04 @seanmcbride @timnitGebru You must be white.

2022-09-24 18:19:11 RT @maksymeristavi: forcing ukrainians at gunpoint to tick a box for their own genocide is a next level sadistic #russiancolonialism, though

2022-09-24 18:12:23 RT @andrewthesmart: I don't know why this fundamental lacuna in the theory of ML is not given more attention. Popper anticipated it 60 year…

2022-09-24 18:07:55 RT @sethlazar: Time to retweet this! Another big year for junior recruitment in philosophy (esp ethics) and AI. There still hasn't been eno…

2022-09-24 18:06:59 RT @ValvodaJosef: To what extent do neural networks learn compositional behaviour? Together with @nsaphra, Jon Rawski, @ryandcotterell and…

2022-09-23 19:33:03 RT @timnitGebru: Someone in the chat suggested "empire models" rather than "foundation models". Excellent name.

2022-09-23 19:32:32 RT @BoseShamik: Thanks to @alexhanna and @emilymbender 's reading of an AI-hype blogpost, I learned a new term "planetarity". @urbandiction…

2022-09-23 18:40:34 @LeonDerczynski @NannaInie HA to the British version being long-winded. I laughed.

2022-09-23 18:40:11 @NannaInie @LeonDerczynski Sounds Good to Me, yah. It stems from the tech code approval strategy of saying "LGTM" (Looks Good to Me) when the code is ready to be incorporated

2022-09-23 18:23:31 PSA courtesy of @emilymbender and @alexhanna : "Hidden Figures" is a term that recognizes Black women. Don't co-opt for, e.g., "Data Scientists" -- this is literally the erasure the term is constructed to work against. https://t.co/MH20fBfqxh

2022-09-23 18:05:13 Happening now!https://t.co/vRBiDjQ2EU https://t.co/rlAOjYRLjr

2022-09-23 18:00:05 @beausievers You're submitting to this? Was just discussing the odds of making $$ from submitting.

2022-09-23 17:43:40 @_nateraw Want some lanyards to fit in? I got a bag full.

2022-09-23 17:43:28 @_nateraw Sounds like you're in South Lake Union. =)

2022-09-23 17:41:42 @nkrishnaswami @crisptina19 Too soon!

2022-09-23 17:18:06 @emilymbender I even brought a "witness" to one of the hostile calls just in case I ever needed a witness of how a few Google leaders had treated me. Wretched foresight. This person will still take the stand if asked. Ah, life as a successful tech research scientist.

2022-09-23 17:16:27 @emilymbender I mean I didn't even put it that way, it was more like, "I think this project is extractive" (as opposed to statement on G broadly). But yes, I had already tried to explain to the ppl on that project, and the response from the lead was hostility, anger, trying to shut me down.

2022-09-23 16:54:52 Mind you, I was in the role to give my ethics-informed opinion due to my expertise -- expertise that wasn't within my management chain.This was one of the days it became clear I needed serious anti-anxiety medication.I was retaliated against in my next performance review.

2022-09-23 16:52:08 And excoriated me for having the "wrong" view.I chalked it up to needless drama and ignored it

2022-09-23 16:49:36 ...I knew he was on the email list, lurking (he wasn't supposed to be on it), but I trusted that he would respect the context of the discussion and my opinion.He did not.He immediately fwded a Google-internal email w my management chain, HIS management chain, other G execs 2/

2022-09-23 16:47:37 Want to hear another Google Inclusion Horror Story?Ok! Within a "Chatham House" discussion -- but in email -- I disagreed with an idea on ethical grounds due to it exploiting people in low-income countries for Google profit.There was a Googler on the email list... /1 https://t.co/RCu84uVy7x

2022-09-23 16:41:50 @emilymbender It should not. But there *could* be a norm of asking/reaching out to someone who said it for consent of attribution if it comes up.

2022-09-23 16:40:44 Really important for those of us who are in "Chatham" scenarios.First heard about the idea of "Datasheets" from @timnitGebru in a Chatham House Rules meeting.100% broke honor code to attribute the brilliant idea to her in similar discussions in other circles. Would do it again. https://t.co/BU6fPqp5nf

2022-09-23 16:37:24 @emilymbender Yep yep yep.

2022-09-23 16:24:44 Thought maybe it meant "smoke got to me", in reference to the fires burning all around the PNW now. =(Dark.

2022-09-23 01:51:55 @natolambert

2022-09-23 01:51:49 RT @natolambert: A new thing we're doing to summarize hard choices and tools to deploy value-informed machine learning with collaboration,…

2022-09-23 01:36:36 Happy Equinox! We started a new Ethics &

2022-09-22 22:58:34 @SashaMTL @Fridays4future You didn't like my sign? https://t.co/ao4JkNoMJF

2022-09-22 22:40:46 RT @osanseviero: Today at @huggingface we had a situation in which for the first time a user abused a specific feature in a collaborative o…

2022-09-22 22:38:31 @SashaMTL Cool vase!!

2022-09-22 20:02:17 @ChrFolini @psd @simonw Nice!!!

2022-09-22 19:17:30 @ChrFolini @psd @simonw love 'sucs' as the alias. I'll use that!

2022-09-22 19:17:16 @ChrFolini @psd @simonw Yuh true, sometimes I use the -r and sometimes I don't depending on how much there is. | head or | less sometimes, but yeah, it could go either way.

2022-09-22 19:05:05 We've been talking a lot about inclusion/DEIB @huggingface and have recently hit on something critical that I think is often overlooked: The importance of having a *friend* to *vent* to.https://t.co/5xWmTnTy6Z

2022-09-22 17:42:44 @alexbfree @psd @simonw Yeah!I'd summarize as: sort lines to get the counts of each identical entry

2022-09-22 17:38:40 RT @emilymbender: In this talk, I go through six ways in which the research, development &

2022-09-22 17:38:33 RT @sbmisi: I'm pleased to announce the AI Vulnerability Database @AvidMldb, a grassroots, open-source effort to build a common standard fo…

2022-09-22 17:38:23 RT @stefw: Ce que fait @huggingface , en affichant le CO2 craché par les modèles et donc en "responsabilisant" les utilisateurs, est smart…

2022-09-22 17:37:41 RT @Abebab: twitter fam,do you know of any work that details the similarities and differences between physiognomy, phrenology and eugenic…

2022-09-22 14:35:20 RT @timnitGebru: Nothing new in today's edition of #ComputerVisionStrikesAgain but I hadn't looked at the CVPR exhibitor's list before. Tak…

2022-09-22 14:31:07 RT @emilymbender: Prepping for episode three of #MAIHT3k (w/@alexhanna) and this blog post is SO BAD. I'm trying to figure out which bits a…

2022-09-22 14:26:25 RT @LapineDeLaTerre: My face is in the #LAION dataset. In 2013 a doctor photographed my face as part of clinical documentation. He died in…

2022-09-22 14:26:09 RT @Carlos_MFerr: So excited to see the @huggingface Hub considered as a Trustworthy AI Tool by the https://t.co/QvoIYnV7xE and included in…

2022-09-22 14:24:01 RT @anoushnajarian: It's today!!! MathWorks is proud to celebrate women technologists at GHC22 as a Gold Sponsor. Hear amazing women presen…

2022-09-18 18:57:29 RT @geomblog: The dual use nature of most automated tech means that looking at the tech itself, whether it's AI or facial recognition or wh…

2022-09-18 18:54:36 RT @0xmaddie_: some low-hanging fruit for textual inversion: replacing prompt templates with a language model https://t.co/h9QSjmSlMO

2022-09-18 18:46:44 RT @geomblog: This is a really tricky scenario that plays out in this story by @kashhill. And one where Clearview appears not as a villain…

2022-09-18 18:39:30 @JoeReddington @d20cafes Love this!!

2022-09-18 18:37:28 RT @lisaporvida: @Noahpinion I also intend to continue masking indoors and avoiding crowded spaces. Long term. Once you see how terribly ou…

2022-09-18 02:36:54 RT @PhD_Genie: When you don't know anyone at the conference https://t.co/ObJR0zK6yp

2022-09-18 00:04:08 RT @emilymbender: As @alexhanna and I have been working through Agüera y Arcas's blog post "Can Machines Learn to Behave" (episode 3 coming…

2022-09-17 23:42:43 RT @simonw: I missed this one: someone DID get a prompt leak attack to work against the bot https://t.co/BFTpZk0ORp

2022-09-17 23:25:38 @aCraigPfeifer Is that all that old?

2022-09-17 23:18:09 Another great piece from @Melissahei clearly explaining how artists' creative works are positioned in new AI."The art community could end up moving into a pay-per-play or subscription model like the one used in the film and music industries." https://t.co/GrpfjgX16F

2022-09-17 22:43:53 On understanding AI risk: "It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of *their* world as the crumbling of *the* world." https://t.co/1Om2NloBM7

2022-09-17 22:38:52 @Kobotic @emilymbender @timnitGebru @monicabyrne13 Love this, so so good. Thanks for tagging me.

2022-09-17 22:27:59 @matdryhurst @neilturkewitz @lux @David_Gunkel @FlyingTrilobite @hollyherndon @tiffanycli @timnitGebru @waxpancake @ViliLe @thedextriarchy @bakztfuture @advadnoun @huggingface would be a good place to host a consented or curated dataset that is continually updated based on requests.

2022-09-17 22:25:30 "what might it mean to be able to produce infinite worlds from a single painting or photograph?"On co-creation and reducing friction for artists to tell stories. https://t.co/TAspapMzZT

2022-09-16 23:57:00 Just said "no" to a 6:30 am Monday meeting to "explore synergies". I have 0 synergies that can be explored Monday 6:30am. Utterly Synergiless.

2022-09-16 23:55:09 @emilymbender What? Centering himself as the epicenter of AI?? Shock!

2022-09-16 20:37:47 @LeonDerczynski @matdryhurst Yeah, it's a REALLY important finding. But also FWIW, note that all approaches they examine rely on having a large uncurated (/unconsented) dataset at the core, as far as we know (base model is GPT-2 medium).

2022-09-16 20:33:05 The idea that you shouldn't talk about negative consequences of AI "because there's a risk in allowing fears" to affect people is exactly the myopic technosolutionism that gives rise TO the negative consequences.By naming the issues, we can begin to overcome them. https://t.co/h6Rx0fQsw4

2022-09-16 20:24:27 I will not be at @AnitaB_org 's #GHC22 and encourage others to be aware of their complicity in empowering sexism in tech.That said, it's one of the best places for women in tech to meet one another. This is the state of structural discrimination. https://t.co/2QhkO6ubg6

2022-09-16 20:19:04 RT @adinamwilliams: How can we improve benchmarking? The @DynabenchAI experiment aims to make faster progress with dynamic data collection,…

2022-09-16 20:11:29 RT @erinoverbey: For example, does anyone know how many of the 40,000+ feature &

2022-09-16 20:08:09 RT @erinoverbey: White people are rarely actively racist at these publications. They simply never bother to challenge the status quo—typica…

2022-09-16 19:54:58 @kenziegunnmedia @character_ai Sort of a PR warning. =)

2022-09-16 19:14:02 For those "in the know", this company @character_ai and this app linked below may very well be the best-of-the-best for language model conversational agents right now. Try it out to get a sense. Warning that you may perceive sentience. https://t.co/qJxPUjb6XD

2022-09-16 19:04:19 @kevinriggle Indeed. Similar discussion here: https://t.co/WGb9HZszKe

2022-09-13 00:52:59 RT @DeniceRoss46: "I wish I could get [X] data from [Y Federal Agency] broken down by [race/ ethnicity/ sexual orientation / gender/ disabi…

2022-09-13 00:50:46 RT @LouisatheLast: Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is “little buddy mode,” where a kid can have a char…

2022-09-13 00:49:45 RT @ruchowdh: This is a passion project, independent of our work with our respective employers, driven by our motivation to cultivate a com…

2022-09-12 19:12:02 @MPDreamGoblin Basically, Merchant Peak across from Baring Mountain. Credit @adempseyfwps

2022-09-12 03:56:30 Video from hikers in the ongoing Bolt Creek Fire (East of Seattle). https://t.co/gF5hn5nlhT

2022-09-12 00:09:35 @LeonDerczynski Yuh, I'm not a fan of lawns myself (but I also don't have kids, for whom lawns are useful).I grow roughly 4 sq ft of lawn a year for my doggie to sit on (then pee on and kill).

2022-09-11 23:25:25 21 years ago.

2022-09-11 23:01:21 @_joaogui1 @natolambert When talking about ML models and companies, this is the difference between open sourcing a model "for free" (indirectly to profit) vs paywalling it (directly to profit).

2022-09-11 22:59:05 @_joaogui1 @natolambert I was thinking of this kind of thing: https://t.co/PiQ1FWl6P3Basically, a company (by design) makes profit. When they put out "free" stuff, it serves the role of, for example, attracting more potential customers in order to profit. So "free" services are indirectly for profit.

2022-09-11 22:45:53 @SashaMTL https://t.co/5O0va3bLux

2022-09-11 22:40:18 @SashaMTL https://t.co/6Y6dD6wcxL

2022-09-11 22:38:41 @SashaMTL Oh the PNW is burning right now. Fires everywhere. We've had an AQI too high to be outside without a mask for the past 36 hours or so. Luckily we have lots of masks now.

2022-09-11 22:36:29 @leftoblique See one of the other discussions happening on my wall (feed?)https://t.co/2BkvkJXdwV

2022-09-11 22:33:27 @natolambert @_joaogui1 "Paywalled" is definitely a relevant one, although I feel like it gets at a different angle? "Direct-to-profit" describes a method of development whereas "paywalled" describes a state of an available model (maybe?)Something feels fundamentally different about the 2.

2022-09-11 22:30:19 The massively racist sexist guy in AI circles finally had some kind of vague repercussion https://t.co/uk1sANTRWe

2022-09-11 20:16:56 RT @dr_nickiw: A Black woman scholar...two actually...were harmed this week...by someone in YOUR community. Instead of putting skin in the…

2022-09-11 20:15:47 So this is happening nearby.... https://t.co/1VulCRr6fl

2022-09-11 20:00:46 RT @TaliaRinger: Hot take: data work often takes much more skill than machine learning work

2022-09-11 19:59:05 @EhudReiter Congratulations!!

2022-09-11 19:58:41 Are there phrases that capture [releasing a model for free] vs [requiring payment to use the model]?I propose "direct-to-profit" for the latter if not.

2022-09-11 19:51:11 &

2022-09-11 19:47:05 "Misappropriated artwork". Great way of explaining the issue of text-to-image models (all of them: open-source&

2022-09-11 19:39:05 @livcomp @_joaogui1 But you can perl within bash. Is that cheating?

2022-09-11 19:38:14 @_joaogui1 Hard disagree.

2022-09-11 02:52:17 @julieletchner WOW!!!! LOVE THIS!!!

2022-09-10 21:28:42 "Shortly before he died, Dr. Eckersley typed a request to his friends: “If possible, please plasticize or vitrify my brain and leave it on a shelf somewhere with a plaque or durable sticky note that says, ‘scan me.’ ”...did this happen?! https://t.co/9DzrH6cRIs

2022-09-10 21:20:53 RT @BritneyMuller: Today's my last day @huggingface Really proud of what we accomplished &

2022-09-10 18:21:48 RT @neilturkewitz: @waxpancake “AI &

2022-09-10 18:21:39 RT @waxpancake: The next step in the AI art culture war has begun: three online art communities have banned AI-generated art, while others…

2022-09-10 18:20:16 @TaliaRinger This is brilliant.

2022-09-10 18:18:47 RT @mervenoyann: On 14th of September I will be hosting a twitter Space on open-source machine learning with @Al_Grigor https://t.co/QsT7jo

2022-09-10 18:17:00 RT @MCipriani_WTAE: NEW: CMU Professor Dr. Uju Anya, explained to me why she wished Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain: “I am the child a…

2022-09-10 18:16:06 Good articulation of different values and tradeoffs in open sourcing #stablediffusion https://t.co/JLOZ7vglzt

2022-09-10 18:07:56 @neilturkewitz @smorewithface @tinymediaempire I've tried searching for copyrighted material through some of the larger ML training datasets and couldn't find. =( I don't know what that means though, because surely they are there.We need to figure out what CommonCrawl actually *does* because it's a main ML training source.

2022-09-10 18:01:54 @BritneyMuller @_lewtun @SashaMTL Thank you!

2022-09-10 18:01:42 RT @BritneyMuller: Created an ML Experts Series featuring leading ML Experts like @mmitchell_ai, @_lewtun &

2022-09-09 16:33:08 It can be hard to find the people whose work gets swept up into large datasets -->

2022-09-09 16:16:16 RT @neerjathakkar: Our ECCV ‘22 paper “Studying Bias in GANs Through the Lens of Race” is now out! https://t.co/NWojyXq2yV This work was do…

2022-09-09 16:06:36 RT @vanstriendaniel: Can we combine the power of the @huggingface datasets hub and @LabelStudioHQ to create a workflow that allows you to m…

2022-09-08 22:02:12 RT @timnitGebru: "The Tech Inquiry research paper compiled thousands of government contracts worldwide to detail the ways in which technolo…

2022-09-08 22:01:31 RT @AlphabetWorkers: Alex Hanna, formerly of the Ethical AI team, speaking next about how workers have demonstrated against military contra…

2022-09-08 15:16:19 RT @JayAlammar: Hats off to @psuraj28 @pcuenq @natolambert @PatrickPlaten for this great writeup explaining how Stable Diffusion works. The…

2022-09-08 15:09:53 RT @alexhanna: If you missed Part 2 of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3k's take on "Can machines learn how to behave?", we've posted the reply on…

2022-09-08 15:05:04 RT @deliprao: Language Models have taken #NLProc by storm. Even if you don’t directly work in NLP, you have likely heard and possibly, used…

2022-09-08 15:02:43 RT @deliprao: I feel quite confident that this is the first source, and Fred Jelinek was likely the first person to use the term "language…

2022-09-08 00:12:36 Peer review is fraught, but there's a chance of someone expert enough in the topic to call foul on yr points &

2022-09-07 23:55:48 @IEthics @ClementDelangue @Carlos_MFerr @IreneSolaiman @huggingface Ooooh that's a quote from Oren Etzioni.Yuh he has nothing to do with HF.

2022-09-07 17:43:14 @IEthics @ClementDelangue @Carlos_MFerr @IreneSolaiman @huggingface ...I don't fully know what that means, but it doesn't seem like something I'd agree with.

2022-09-07 17:41:29 Really helpful article explaining the new Open &

2022-09-07 17:12:08 This is...frighteningly powerful ! https://t.co/cmW76YBR5r

2022-09-07 16:54:45 RT @pjox13: #NLProc Honest question that keeps coming up lately when reviewing resource and evaluation papers:Is it ok that authors submi…

2022-09-07 16:44:08 My work tasks today include reading and processing the responses in the below. Worth reading if you want to understand the unfiltered cutting edge of how people involved in AI Ethics and tech companies are thinking through regulation... https://t.co/A99kwUrzjM

2022-09-07 16:29:38 @Abebab @ThomasPML I love this chair!

2022-09-07 16:29:21 @Abebab

2022-09-07 16:27:20 @hardmaru @rctatman Hahaha

2022-09-06 21:29:25 RT @realSharonZhou: I really wanted to illustrate long stories with Stable Diffusion! So, hacked together this pipeline:Long text ->

2022-09-06 17:44:34 @ClementDelangue @Carlos_MFerr @IreneSolaiman I don't agree with all of this article, but I *do* really appreciate my @huggingface colleagues diving straight in to some of the tricky nuances.

2022-09-06 17:43:57 “Open innovation and responsible innovation...are not mutually exclusive ends, but rather complementary ones,” @ClementDelangue, @Carlos_MFerr and @IreneSolaiman said. “The intersection between both should be a core target for ongoing regulatory efforts.”https://t.co/w2A7zqSJHy

2022-09-06 16:23:25 RT @random_walker: I'm compiling a list of privacy-friendly business models for a paper I'm writing. What would you want me to include? Les…

2022-09-06 16:21:33 I am so excited to see that @mer__edith has accepted a position as President of Signal!!!Well well well done. https://t.co/jcRyBTm9KS

2022-09-06 16:16:28 RT @shauryr: Announcing ACL Anthology Corpus which has 80k pdfs(articles &

2022-09-06 06:29:11 RT @veenadubal: Look who is the new president of Signal! It’s @mer__edith . On this Labor Day, as I think of the central tools of our…

2022-09-05 20:09:05 @ctlcsm @_joaogui1 @JackMonarch @negar_rz @bakztfuture @tsimonite @willie_agnew Ty! I'm an author on that one!

2022-09-05 20:07:49 @ctlcsm @_joaogui1 @JackMonarch @negar_rz @bakztfuture You're using points that support the opposite of what (I think) your argument is.I appreciate you noticing that tech minorities are a diverse group of people: Black, Latinx, queer, trans, non-binary, women, Blind, Deaf...not enough tweet chars.

2022-09-05 19:59:13 @ctlcsm @_joaogui1 @JackMonarch @negar_rz @bakztfuture For those reading, @tsimonite wrote a great piece on this very issue: https://t.co/nIRf3bY46t “Words on the list are many times used in very offensive ways but they can also be appropriate depending on context and your identity.” -@willie_agnew

2022-09-05 19:55:08 @ctlcsm @_joaogui1 @JackMonarch @negar_rz @bakztfuture ...a naughty list is something several tech minorities have explained is an issue.True, sounds like OpenAI and Google have similar decision makers.What do you think the odds are that the *majority* of the people going between the 2 companies are actually the tech *minorities*?

2022-09-05 19:47:59 @rcalo I see what you did there.

2022-09-05 19:44:01 @ctlcsm @_joaogui1 @JackMonarch @negar_rz @bakztfuture Independently suggesting similar solutions to problems they all see and have deep knowledge about.Sounds like you're describing a situation where they might be on to something.

2022-09-05 19:37:02 RT @jackclarkSF: Peter and I didn't always agree about things, but we always took time to speak to each other and have earnest debates. He…

2022-09-05 19:35:42 @alexhanna @timnitGebru @dylnbkr @CriticalAI @emilymbender Ahhh, so well said! I've been trying to wrap my head around what felt so perverse, this nails it. Thank you!

2022-09-05 16:26:24 @julien_c @minimaxir

2022-09-05 02:30:55 RT @rizzi: Once in a blue screen, I see a bumper sticker that literally makes me laugh out loud. This is one of them. https://t.co/nV6XiSvn

2022-09-05 02:30:47 RT @willie_agnew: I can't believe I'm saying it, but I'm graduating this spring and looking for postdoc/research scientist (maybe prof???)…

2022-09-05 02:30:29 @julieletchner Amazing!!!

2022-09-04 18:08:15 unsolved for years.Picture is apparently from Ontario, 1992.Animation seems so familiar to US/Canada people who grew up late 80s/early 90s that it's hard not to obsess over finding the answer. https://t.co/7gtdSYlfy4

2022-09-04 17:39:12 RT @alexhanna: If you missed Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, don't worry! We've uploaded the stream to YouTube. Mark your calendars for our…

2022-09-04 17:32:15 @TaliaRinger

2022-09-04 17:31:54 @TaliaRinger Baci di Dama!!! That's what they're called. Can you go to a pastry shop and get some of those?!?!?!?!?! You must if you can!!!

2022-09-04 17:30:11 @TaliaRinger Do you have time to get lady's kisses cookies while you're there?!?! That's one of my favorite treats in the world. They're called something else tho, not lady's kisses....

2022-09-04 17:21:27 RT @brianchristian: Peter Eckersley (@pde33) was my best friend, and one of the best friends I’ve ever had. He was the person (other than m…

2022-09-04 17:21:13 RT @EliMcCann: Hello. All of the actors from Friends are now older than the youngest Golden Girl was in that show’s first season. Have a ni…

2022-09-04 03:09:50 He checked in on me whenever he was in Seattle, and we got drinks and ate shitty 3am pizza when we were both in NY.We had a standing date to hang out once the pandemic had calmed down.I'm shocked he's suddenly gone.

2022-09-04 03:08:06 At a Silicon Valley dinner, I was the token woman &

2022-09-04 02:42:53 @emilymbender @huggingface @rcalo @Kobotic In this case https://t.co/lM4ZxGwBDr is the licensor.The paper is helpful here wrt thinking on enforcement: https://t.co/iapIqmshcqIt clearly carves out the role of *governance* and how that must be advanced as well.

2022-09-03 18:02:56 RT @emilymbender: Yes! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is turning into a (mini?) series, not least because 1hr wasn't enough to even scratch t…

2022-09-03 17:37:35 @jschmeling I think we *can't* build AI that's grounded on ethical values without dealing with the structural discrimination head on.

2022-09-03 17:22:21 @adolfont When I was a PhD student, yes.

2022-09-03 17:18:45 RT @bcrypt: just got the heartbreaking news that peter eckersley is in the hospital and may not make it. there will be a vigil for him at 7…

2022-09-03 16:49:21 @dylantack Yeah, good points.

2022-09-03 16:47:07 @zdubsf @timnitGebru You can't do that in theory and have it catch on, you have to dive in to the state of the art and implement it.

2022-09-03 16:46:16 @zdubsf @timnitGebru No one's making any excuses about anything...I disagree with SD releasing the weights &

2022-09-02 23:55:07 RT @neilturkewitz: @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai danah boyd said it perfectly: “We need to heed the warnings of artists, not race head-on into…

2022-09-02 23:54:42 @emilymbender @BlancheMinerva Plagiarising someone who responded privately: "fortunately there isn't one paper saying when to release or not, because that [would require] stating what's good &

2022-09-02 23:49:34 @neilturkewitz @timnitGebru @colbertathome 100%. I was capturing what I was seeing in arguments &

2022-09-02 21:00:19 @ml_ideas That's important when the majority of techies are singing praises of approach X, though! There are always critical issues being swept under the rug, and I think we (as a society) benefit from having the different nuances and tensions made clear.

2022-09-02 20:00:41 @jackclarkSF You're right that "organization" would have been much better. I'd actually written "community" at first, but then fell victim to the siren call of parallel text.

2022-09-02 19:59:03 @jackclarkSF I wonder how the nuance of direct profit influences peoples' thinking.

2022-09-02 19:58:27 @jackclarkSF Yeah it's a great point -- I suppose the distinction here is actually whether it's directly tied to profit (e.g., drives more eyes on the ads) or indirectly (e.g., will be on people's radar to drive purchasing of something related).

2022-09-02 19:52:42 Ooh a SOTA Chinese Text-to-Image model just appeared in my circles. https://t.co/4NjrPSMhM2

2022-09-02 19:32:32 @Flomerboy I don't know that everyone prefers free and open source in all cases. Especially people working in the ethics sphere. I mean I certainly don't, and recent work has been talking a LOT about governance mechanisms for controlled sharing.

2022-09-02 19:20:55 @neilturkewitz @lux @timnitGebru @Pinterest @huggingface Whereas on instagram you upload your own photos.

2022-09-02 19:20:41 @neilturkewitz @lux @timnitGebru @Pinterest @huggingface Wait, we were talking about Pinterest, not Instagram, right? I too always get these confused. I thought on pinterest you "pinned" content from elsewhere.

2022-09-02 19:19:29 (Before tweeting passionate tweets about the ethics of this or that, take a moment to consider whether your view is the view that benefits your employer/community, and whether you'd have that view otherwise)

2022-09-02 19:16:31 Related question is if you choose Choice 1, do you work at a company doing this? If you choose Choice 2, are your part of the community doing this?Methinks there will be a correlation.

2022-09-01 00:01:10 RT @tsimonite: The latest protests at Google are over an Israeli government cloud contract—but have roots in internal strife over a corpora…

2022-09-01 00:00:24 @SashaMTL @GRACEethicsAI So stretched thin I can't even spell "done"!

2022-08-31 23:58:05 @_joaogui1 @negar_rz @bakztfuture I think "perfectly ethical" is not a thing...

2022-08-31 23:56:10 @SashaMTL @GRACEethicsAI How do you constantly have so much energy to do everything?!?!?You're a good and involved mom and do outdoor stuff and get tons of interesting work dond.I have 0 kids and like 0 interests and still feel stretched thin.

2022-08-31 21:22:12 @TaliaRinger Haha. This was next to this tweet from @mark_riedl in my feed.https://t.co/zjXZQZg0RZ

2022-08-31 21:21:02 RT @dgrobinson: Before there were many high stakes algorithms – before “AI ethics” was a thing – a doctor named Belding Scribner became an…

2022-08-31 19:58:37 In 1 min! https://t.co/zxUZjUuS6c

2022-08-31 19:58:26 RT @emilymbender: Join me &

2022-08-31 17:46:55 RT @rcalo: Similarly the FTC's notice that it is considering privacy &

2022-08-31 17:23:44 Great new piece from @Melissahei summarizing *so much* of the conversation around our Private Info being scraped to train modern AI models."a “ticking time bomb” for privacy online"Demonstrates actual examples.Uses history to show what'll happen next.https://t.co/2JGmriJlWG

2022-08-31 17:14:03 RT @emilymbender: @random_walker @sayashk For example, they write: "Noted AI researcher Rich Sutton wrote an essay in which he forcefully a…

2022-08-31 17:12:26 @Miles_Brundage @Carlos_MFerr @multimodalart So much of the future for this is tied up in currently-being-developed governance and gating strategies. Hopefully the governments starting to put out AI regulation proposals will pay attention a bit to what we're doing, and why.

2022-08-31 17:05:54 @BlancheMinerva @timnitGebru I would guess it's for legal reasons, tbh. I am confident Google scours our tweets to build up a case to harm us (should they ever decide to).

2022-08-31 16:57:47 TFW documentation practices (finally) influence licensing!"OpenRAILs are designed as values carriers...either due to ethics-informed reasons and/or to the technical limitations of the licensed feature, informed by the model card."@huggingface https://t.co/SvG0JbCe0L

2022-08-31 16:46:59 One thing that the new AI License incentivizes? *Thinking through the use cases* https://t.co/SvG0JbCe0L

2022-08-31 16:45:49 ... "Therefore, while benefiting from an open access to the ML model, the user will not be able to use the model for the specified restricted scenarios."

2022-08-31 16:45:33 "Use-based restrictions are informed by an evidence-based approach to ML development and use limitations which forces to draw a line between promoting wide access and use of ML against potential social costs stemming from harmful uses of the openly licensed AI artifact." ...

2022-08-31 16:44:40 It's out! @Carlos_MFerr explains the new RAIL license @huggingface!"embed a specific set of restrictions for the use of the licensed AI artifact in identified critical scenarios"https://t.co/upQkiSPeqJAlso see pioneering work on this from @danish_c ! https://t.co/3rL99s2LmG

2022-08-31 16:33:24 Really useful for understanding why AI Hype comes from AI developers. https://t.co/ZJT8ybWFtM

2022-08-31 16:25:01 @JoeReddington =( =(

2022-08-31 16:14:57 "So she turned to what had long been an underutilized tool in algebra called the tensor." So cool to see this piece on @AnimaAnandkumar! https://t.co/OwxRh7WtJq

2022-08-31 02:38:46 This is happening tomorrow! Come jpin! https://t.co/zxUZjUuS6c

2022-08-31 02:32:17 @timnitGebru Of course it is.

2022-08-31 02:31:42 @simonw @BlancheMinerva Do it if you can @BlancheMinerva , this would be an amazing resource!

2022-08-31 02:29:46 Awesome work!!! You can search some of the data used to train current text/image models (including Stable Diffusion, but others as well!) Is your data in there? https://t.co/pfLcll9aXt

2022-08-31 02:23:46 RT @nullvoidstar: Kudos to @ariel_koko for this thorough explanation of Google’s retaliation against workers fighting Google’s unethical bu…

2022-08-27 20:39:24 RT @undersequoias: I know I'm a minute late on this, but really the profoundly stupid thing about longtermism is that nearly any hypothethi…

2022-08-27 20:37:15 ...then making uninformed or false claims about what AI Ethics is only works to further entrench AI Ethics work, while fueling derision and personal attacks from people less informed. Is that the goal? (2/2)

2022-08-27 20:33:51 A pattern I've seen emerge.Anti-AI-Ethics people: "When you say 'harm' that doesn't really mean anything."Also Anti-AI-Ethics people: <

2022-08-27 19:41:29 @csdoctorsister @grimalkina "You can't code your way out of discrimination" -- love this framing.

2022-08-27 19:39:20 The writing from @schock here is so, so good. https://t.co/jif9H0K8lD

2022-08-27 19:32:38 RT @techgirl1908: Someone asked for advice on how to navigate tech as a woman.Here are my tips. Ladies, feel free to add more.

2022-08-27 19:28:24 RT @mark_riedl: Is there a way to “digitally sign” a DL model? For example, if I have a student in a class I would like to be able to verif…

2022-08-27 18:40:34 @SashaMTL Well I drew it first then had to decide what it was.

2022-08-27 18:38:19 @SashaMTL Mine is boring. =( https://t.co/JucCoyEzvm

2022-08-27 18:33:24 @andrewthesmart @alexhanna Hahahahahahaha

2022-08-27 18:26:34 @TaliaRinger @EMostaque For work hosted on HF, many of us can help craft a detailed ML road map informed by legal and ethical considerations. I think many of us would be keen to do it.

2022-08-27 18:21:05 RT @TaliaRinger: @EMostaque I also want all AI models to be open, but making them open doesn't have to mean dismissing legitimate concerns…

2022-08-27 18:20:50 RT @TaliaRinger: @EMostaque And in the status quo market where the richest companies with the most powerful lawyers always write the rules,…

2022-08-27 18:19:18 @TaliaRinger @EMostaque

2022-08-27 18:16:22 @timnitGebru That means working on licensing, documentation, and release strategies, which any contributor can take or leave. We're a resource, not approvers.

2022-08-27 18:12:03 @timnitGebru I'm concerned about these being overstatements that function to give an impression that the release is something ethics-minded AI people, at least at HF, signed off on. We do not/did not sign off on anything. We advise within an open source community. (...)

2022-08-26 20:37:58 RT @mishig25: How do you draw an owl: 1. draw some circles 2. click "Diffuse the rest"We have made the greatest thing since MS Paint (u…

2022-08-26 16:43:57 RT @AnthropicAI: To illustrate what “successful” red teaming looks like, the image below shows a red team attack that tricks our least safe…

2022-08-26 15:37:16 RT @KetanJ0: Wild story, but unfortunately completely characteristic of Google, who love congratulating themselves on their climate credent…

2022-08-26 15:03:04 @neilturkewitz @OpenAI That's some good "human feedback" right there!

2022-08-25 23:11:41 @MuhammedKambal @timnitGebru @black_in_ai Yup, tested that before it was launched and found similar results.

2022-08-25 21:24:12 @lilianedwards @MLuczak @timnitGebru @AlexCEngler @datacontrovers1 Yes. I was just thinking about one avenue of AI ethics work being building coalitions for the rights of content creators. Musicians have things like ASCAP. Anyone who creates content online should have a body they can belong to that organizes and asserts creator rights.

2022-08-25 20:56:03 RT @SashaMTL: A third of ImageNet categories are animals, but what do they actually contain? @david_rolnick and I worked with ecol…

2022-08-25 19:15:56 @MLuczak @timnitGebru @lilianedwards @AlexCEngler ...as well as computational/algorithmic work on all sides of the ML life cycle, gated/controlled access, and model/data distribution.

2022-08-25 19:13:25 @MLuczak @timnitGebru @lilianedwards @AlexCEngler There are usually tradeoffs/tensions when making values-informed decisions, which @lilianedwards is beginning to point out. Not everyone will see the same "right" answer. A lot more work needs to be done on the rights of those who created the data, and those rep. in the data...

2022-08-24 20:48:57 RT @MiaD: exhausting to live in a society where tech billionaires are hailed as geniuses but low wage workers who made their success possib…

2022-08-24 20:48:11 RT @anaisbetts: We built all of GitHub, with zero initial funding, with absolutely no grind culture of any kind, ever.I promise, whatever…

2022-08-24 17:18:35 This is going to be SO GOOD!!@emilymbender and @alexhanna are going to walk through at least 1 recent "AI hype" blog post from someone influential, and (tongue-in-cheek) clarify which claims are supported by prior work and which are...not. https://t.co/zxUZjUcIS4

2022-08-24 17:15:27 RT @alexhanna: Ever wonder what researchers say to themselves when they read a piece of AI opining so bad they need to livestream it? Well,…

2022-08-24 15:40:01 @LeonDerczynski @julien_c @huggingface See alsohttps://t.co/BkKI9Bei3k

2022-08-24 15:39:20 RT @julien_c: Would you be interested in being able to generate a DOI for models or datasets on the @huggingface Hub?If you would, any pr…

2022-08-24 15:37:17 RT @fofrAI: With #stablediffusion img2img, I can help bring my 4yr old’s sketches to life.Baby and daddy ice cream robot monsters having…

2022-08-24 15:26:14 RT @BlondeHistorian: What I want non disabled people to understand is how utterly normal this experience felt.As a blind person I’m usual…

2022-08-24 15:24:08 @WellsLucasSanto Really useful analogy!

2022-08-24 14:55:54 RT @emilymbender: @onekade Argh. Thank you for pointing this out. https://t.co/SpaxQFYaOu

2022-08-24 14:55:49 RT @onekade: No! Stop! Bad scientist! https://t.co/mbMnObeY1B https://t.co/fDCyOrSXZQ

2022-08-23 22:41:40 @mervenoyann @MeganRisdal They're excited to lose their internet connection.

2022-08-23 22:39:09 @_julianmichael_ @LukeZettlemoyer @emilymbender @nlpnoah @ssshanest Congratulations!

2022-08-19 19:40:29 This is what doing a PhD is like. https://t.co/LhtC0UXkYj

2022-08-19 19:37:05 RT @elgreco_winter: AACL-IJCNLP2022 Author Response Period has started:(1) The response deadline is extended to August 28 to ensure the la…

2022-08-18 23:16:16 RT @tomgoldsteincs: The success of diffusion models is a great example of the impact that a new mathematical paradigm can have. All the hy…

2022-08-18 18:35:39 RT @EMostaque: We would welcome any feedback on the model card for #StableDiffusion here: https://t.co/HyXX6w2U4H before release.

2022-08-18 18:33:45 Got to see this presentation live @FAccTConference , presented by the lovely @athundt =) https://t.co/MSQZvr1kjd

2022-08-18 15:54:15 @EhudReiter @weberple We worked through a lot of different scenarios and sought to be as precise as we could about foreseeable misuses and misunderstandings of the technology. This means the details were probably more expansive than others have reported....

2022-08-18 15:52:11 @EhudReiter Thanks, I wrote that with others.

2022-08-18 15:45:18 @verena_rieser @ekuyda @MyReplika Ah cool, thanks for talking about that, I will check it out!

2022-08-18 15:44:34 I'm in the third stage now. https://t.co/7J5HkeigYq

2022-08-18 15:43:01 @RichardEngel

2022-08-18 15:34:45 RT @erinoverbey: So what exactly is a woman’s worth? Is it in her personality traits—those disparate standards which rarely seem to apply t…

2022-08-18 15:33:33 RT @erinoverbey: Are women winsome enough for you? Are we, the female colleagues who work alongside you, likable enough to stand beside you…

2022-08-18 15:31:29 @ang3linawang Thanks for writing this. Was talking about similar observations with @JesseDodge .

2022-08-18 15:30:33 Cool write-up about ICML vs FAccT.Agree w this: "At FAccT, it felt like there was roughly gender parity...At ICML, it felt like over 80% of the attendees were masculine-presenting. Personally I felt that this contributed quite significantly to the ~vibe~ of the conferences." https://t.co/k5NK52lsch

2022-08-17 16:12:45 More penguins than women! Ack! If you're a woman who'd be good at developer advocacy/relations/operations, please consider applying! https://t.co/yo2S7ZFYHI

2022-08-16 18:20:12 The *blades* were spinning at full speed, not my fingers, to be clear. My fingers don't spin at this point in time.

2022-08-16 18:19:12 Welp, one of my fears finally happened: I stuck my finger into a fan with metal blades while they were spinning at full speed.I still have my finger (luckily it hit my nail, which I suppose was a kind of barrier) but boy the pain was bad.

2022-08-16 16:47:45 @SashaMTL @widged Ohhhh Duty Free f'ed up. Bastards!

2022-08-16 16:46:23 @SashaMTL @widged I'm so upset for you hehe. You had plans with that champagne!

2022-08-16 16:45:52 @SashaMTL @widged If it was in a Duty Free bag, they shouldn't have done that.....!!!

2022-08-16 16:44:42 @SashaMTL Wait that's not true! I brought my stuff back from Seoul with no issue! It just had to be in the Duty Free bag. Those bastards!!

2022-08-16 16:42:26 RT @rctatman: My stream on possible malicious uses of natural langue generation starts in just about half an hour. https://t.co/LB8c7yYm3w

2022-08-16 16:41:30 @mayhewsw

2022-08-16 16:35:05 @emilymbender @jvitak Google always sinks its claws further and further in once it has ya.

2022-08-16 16:28:37 @baxterkb @TheCrucible WOW! neato!

2022-08-16 16:26:07 @SashaMTL And those who don't unpack it until it's time to pack it again.

2022-08-15 22:58:43 RT @emilymbender: Had some fun this morning riffing with @danmcquillan and @cfieslerSee next tweets for sources of this conversation.

2022-08-14 17:34:03 RT @camsamantha: This is legitimately the funniest thing I have ever seen https://t.co/iHGmuYCaBL

2022-08-14 17:23:29 RT @TartanLlama: 10 things that every software developer should know1. If you hit the computer really hard with a hammer it can't hurt yo…

2022-08-14 17:22:18 @tallinzen Ineffective antagonism.

2022-08-14 17:18:13 Watching the evolution of autonomous AI. https://t.co/cAxme9Xdo4

2022-08-14 17:16:44 RT @davisblalock: …scaling up language models. But if we can generate unlimited training data for coding in particular, this suggests that…

2022-08-14 17:13:08 RT @deliprao: Just discovered @rasbt’s handy watermark module. Just pip install watermark, and you can do this! Very useful for filing GitH…

2022-08-14 17:13:01 @deliprao @rasbt Love this!!

2022-08-14 17:10:15 RT @schemeprincess: @eminietfeld @TaliaRinger Every woman in CS is a resilience narrative. If @TaliaRinger and @schemeprincess can do it, w…

2022-08-14 16:45:54 RT @TaliaRinger: I think the thing that confuses me most about the implementation of DEI efforts in institutions is that you can't fix a to…

2022-08-14 16:44:27 RT @kenarchersf: This is spot on. The “Closing the Accountability Gap” paper (@mmitchell_ai, @rajiinio, @timnitGebru et al) calls for FMEA…

2022-08-13 22:25:42 @Abebab The use of the word "except" in 4 is interesting. I would expect "expect" there.

2022-08-13 21:54:13 @Ted_Underwood @jackclarkSF Are you "pitch"ing stuff to journalists? Maybe that's why traction is hard. fwiw I just be a researcher and answer Qs as a researcher if a journalist is interested, don't if they're not. Either way my contribution/strength to the world is as a qualified researcher.

2022-08-13 21:47:17 @Ted_Underwood @jackclarkSF No, we don't write about things like deception for "journalistic traction".

2022-08-13 21:45:38 @jackclarkSF It's way too early to say this isn't a serious concern. IMO people aren't knowledgeable about using LLMs for controlled NLG yet but eh...if I've been able to figure out how to do it others will too in the coming years.

2022-08-13 17:48:39 @yoavgo Yeah.

2022-08-12 18:46:18 RT @ShannonVallor: My final word to longtermists:I care about existential risk too. There’s one (actually two or three) here at the door…

2022-08-12 18:25:49 RT @GRACEethicsAI: @Stanford SSEA and LSP students are so lucky to hear @timnitGebru today! https://t.co/ahuvWBklbA

2022-08-12 18:10:37 RT @PrincetonDH: Startwords, issue 3: PARROTS @Ted_Underwood, Mapping the Latent Spaces of Culture @gimenadelr, On Spanish-Speaking P…

2022-08-12 14:57:04 @SashaMTL You need to teach them the very important phrase "Butt Naked"!

2022-08-11 18:44:43 RT @rctatman: @HotMale69420 Of course, but ethics researchers in particular SHOULD be critically imagining and working towards a better, mo…

2022-08-11 18:43:46 This was an interesting event to take part in, and fun to respond with @mcmillan_majora ! I learned so so much from @gimenadelr and @laurenfklein in particular. https://t.co/8wM9dDUNgz

2022-08-11 16:33:52 RT @EthicsElizabeth: This thread from @sethlazar helps me better understand why I bristled each time "common sense" was used to justify a l…

2022-08-11 16:30:10 YAY @KLdivergence !!! https://t.co/pzla6gBWPu

2022-08-11 16:08:45 @sethlazar

2022-08-11 16:07:49 RT @sethlazar: 5. Meanwhile this capricious about-face means longtermists are abandoning causes EA has long supported, that do real good—be…

2022-08-10 19:10:13 @TaliaRinger HA!!

2022-08-10 19:10:00 RT @DrMonicaCox: Good morning to employees who should have been doing their jobs but ended up fighting broken workplace systems. May you…

2022-08-10 18:37:31 RT @dgrobinson: I'd like to tell you a story about how people built a life-or-death algorithm in a relatively inclusive, accountable way. I…

2022-08-10 18:36:38 RT @rctatman: And please know that I'm saying this as someone who, seven or eight years ago, though that fixing demographic imbalances in d…

2022-08-10 18:36:28 RT @rctatman: Whelp, I think that's it: I've lost my last drop of patience for "ethics research" that essentially boils down to "corporatio…

2022-08-10 16:43:49 @jackclarkSF (See @BigscienceW , which was heavily inspired by the CERN model)

2022-08-10 16:38:27 @jackclarkSF With respect, I think "just turning up and working on the same core issues" has given you a lot of impact in part because of your characteristics -- it's not the pt of your thread, but I hope you can appreciate the privilege you have within your positions.

2022-08-10 05:40:18 @TaliaRinger Thanks for explaining.

2022-08-10 05:37:56 @TaliaRinger

2022-08-10 05:37:28 @TaliaRinger

2022-08-10 05:37:11 RT @TaliaRinger: 2. The fallout upended entire careers and lives, and caused a lot of serious harassment, especially on social media. So…

2022-08-10 05:37:03 RT @TaliaRinger: 1. The researchers critiquing language models as being semantically ungrounded are not "AI skeptics," they are researchers…

2022-08-09 19:52:16 Me: <

2022-08-09 19:50:28 @MadamePratolung @KathrynECramer @emilymbender I mean the way you are explaining is putting into words some things I've been thinking/feeling and struggling to articulate. I'm really grateful you're involved in the conversation.

2022-08-09 19:49:16 @MadamePratolung @KathrynECramer @emilymbender You are nailing it so much.

2022-08-09 19:44:54 @MadamePratolung @KathrynECramer @emilymbender I'm loving your writing: "nonsensical pastiche of gimmicks, unfalsifiable assertions, rhetorical questions, pseudo-intellectualism, and chutzpah". Just a really great way of explaining, the words you're using are so good.

2022-08-09 17:49:55 RT @HabenGirma: Hi, I’m a #Deafblind person strongly recommending #AI researchers &

2022-08-08 19:07:47 @emilymbender Anyway, I clearly don't have a lot of stomach for BS today and now I'm in a bad mood. Thanks a lot Twitter!

2022-08-08 19:06:37 @emilymbender It's really rough to watch how they're given the constant benefit of the doubt that their references are good. Because what they say matters: People are listening. And some of the stuff they're putting forth is horrific just below the veneer.

2022-08-08 19:05:48 @emilymbender The goal in scholarship, for me -- and I think most people whose work is peer-reviewed and accepted -- is not to simply weave a narrative with a veneer of being rooted in previous scholarship. (1/n)

2022-07-25 20:58:25 RT @lvwerra: With today's release of Evaluate (0.2.0) we are adding three more evaluators (QA, NER, Image classification).This make it a…

2022-07-25 20:54:44 RT @timnitGebru: Thinking about how ባርያ means slave in Tigrinya &

2022-07-25 17:10:02 RT @deliprao: I am absolutely in love with this mouse-over stuff @huggingface API documentations have. It clearly shows they understand the…

2022-07-25 17:07:33 One of those days I wake up feeling just gutted that the Beatles broke up.

2022-07-25 16:39:12 RT @BriannaWu: This looks like Theranos level fraud. The last 16 years of Alzheimer’s research looks to have been built on deliberately fal…

2022-07-23 18:01:05 RT @MPerezOrtiz_: Reading "How does your #positionality #bias your #epistemology?" by suggestion of @roeldobbe. Just WOWEssentially, how…

2022-07-23 18:00:20 @agrover112 @ryandcotterell It's stuff like this that makes me enjoy following @ryandcotterell.

2022-07-23 07:01:52 RT @rctatman: Friends, I have a little surprise Friday treat for you! I talked with @YJernite from @huggingface about responsibly relea…

2022-07-23 07:01:47 RT @YJernite: I had a delightful time talking about @BigscienceW with @rctatman this morning!Give it a watch to learn about what Swiss ch…

2022-07-22 16:51:19 @gilbert_dev Oh I hope not.

2022-07-22 16:50:17 @shortstein @Ira_Sass Thank you!

2022-07-22 16:47:36 @soldni Totally. Like an AI Gossip bulletin.

2022-07-22 16:46:15 @struthious Thanks!

2022-07-22 16:17:02 RT @libshipwreck: If you think science &

2022-07-22 16:12:19 @anyabelz @kowey @mwhite14850 @astent Love this work, congratulations and we'll deserved!

2022-07-22 16:11:26 ...Ever sign on to find people subtweeting about **something**, but no clue what it is?A good chunk of my Twitter this morning is people subtweeting about getting a prestigious award and writing a paper that is incorrect.What are you all referring to?! What happened??

2022-07-22 16:08:28 RT @_lewtun: Ever wanted to know if question answering models trained on SQuAD can generalise to new domains?With the latest release of A…

2022-07-22 16:08:04 @Abebab . Thanks for that.

2022-07-22 16:07:43 RT @ZeerakTalat: We need to have licenses that only allow case-by-case corporate capture of language data. There is absolutely zero reason…

2022-07-22 16:05:39 Explains the recent issues and sol'ns with data in AI and the work of some of my awesome collaborators over the past year. Thanks to @nitashatiku for the article! https://t.co/GOiW7ybkOy

2022-07-21 19:58:42 @inlgmeeting @EhudReiter Well deserved!

2022-07-21 17:04:10 @TaliaRinger @ksmckinley @kat_heller @timnitGebru IIRC I was also on a thread recently about potentially doing this with @haldaume3

2022-07-21 15:25:15 RT @huggingface: Diffusion models have been powering impressive ML apps, enabling DALL-E or ImagenIntroducing diffusers: a modular too…

2022-07-21 15:24:11 RT @SanhEstPasMoi: In the medium to long term, a well-documented model card with access to the model weights is 10x more impactful than a p…

2022-07-20 15:03:09 RT @_lewtun: There's a now nifty feature on ~all~ dataset pages of the @huggingface Hub: Evaluate any model with any dataset &

2022-07-20 15:00:42 @TaliaRinger Dude these views will so get you blocked from promotion and fired.

2022-07-20 14:59:03 @LeonDerczynski @SashaMTL Things Europeans are good at include:- Having lots of great sandwiches to hand- Holiday

2022-07-20 14:55:44 @lizthegrey

2022-07-20 14:47:04 @SameeOIbraheem Just remember to take it in stride so as not to get into too negative of a headspace (general Twitter problem, not academia specific).

2022-07-20 14:39:34 @neilturkewitz @kokuma @art_zucker @OpenAI @huggingface I wasn't til yesterday, sounds like it's Open AI (not HF), but hosted on HF?Will figure it out.

2022-07-20 00:35:55 RT @christopher: We are currently working on annotating this, but I felt it was too beautiful not to share—even unlabeled.This is a scatt…

2022-07-19 23:13:07 @evanmiltenburg Thank you for being so involved even though you couldn't make it!! Would not have been able to do this smoothly without you. <

2022-07-19 16:05:36 RT @Saad_M: Great slide by @mmitchell_ai illustrating the great divide between INLG and ACL venues at @inlgmeeting #NLG #INLG2022 https:/…

2022-07-19 16:05:08 @gkatzia @inlgmeeting

2022-07-19 11:46:48 RT @mikarv: The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill contains a lot of changes. Some were previewed in the June consultation respon…

2022-07-18 20:19:06 @zehavoc @Tundjii @huggingface (It's not a HF-owned model)

2022-07-18 20:18:41 @zehavoc @Tundjii @huggingface There was quite a lot of work on data curation, including with respect to copyright and copyright laws.

2022-07-18 20:17:03 @zehavoc @huggingface Note this isn't HF, it's BigScience (volunteer-based).

2022-07-18 19:23:43 @zehavoc From my (non-legal-scholar) understanding of the license, content that is generated that is under another license remains under that license. (This explodes into a number of other issues -- and research directions, both in policy and ML)

2022-07-18 19:20:13 @haydenfield I definitely haven't led it -- they were doing it before I even joined! -- but I'm super stoked to be part of the group effort.

2022-07-18 15:23:49 RT @rosanardila: Important discussion about the reproducibility crisis of ML in science. Particularly when models are later used in medical…

2022-07-18 15:16:24 @EdwardRaffML Yeah, via the Community tab with timestamps the pull (or you can be subscribed to GH notifications in order to get the notification to your email)

2022-07-18 15:15:03 @AiSimonThompson Probably not more than 2? Need to decide on release date with @_nateraw and others.

2022-07-18 15:13:25 @KyauMill21 @huggingface @mkgerchick @_____ozo__ Thank you!

2022-07-18 15:11:58 @timnitGebru @julieletchner She also makes gorgeous cakes!

2022-07-16 22:32:59 "University administrators turned me into a pariah on campus...." Clarification: He turned himself into a pariah by being an ass along multiple dimensions, including cookie-cutter sexism. Why are so many (most?) of the guys like this in CS at UW? =(https://t.co/zALsrjeG8a

2022-07-16 17:28:52

2022-07-16 17:28:00 We @huggingface have also developed a bunch of tools for automating model card creation &

2022-07-16 17:25:29 Note that many of these are in PR state still. Ahem ahem ahem.

2022-07-16 17:24:54 Nerd news: I am SO STOKED that *all* @huggingface-contributed models on the Hub (https://t.co/LjlVL8NXLW) have model cards

2022-07-16 17:17:04 @mobav0 I was gonna say....

2022-07-15 15:25:35 @JordanBHarrod @emilymbender @timnitGebru Thank you for your work!

2022-07-15 15:22:29 RT @random_walker: ML is being rapidly adopted in the sciences, but the gnarly problem of data leakage has led to a reproducibility crisis.…

2022-07-14 17:47:43 @julien_c @percyliang

2022-07-14 15:55:12 RT @daveyalba: SCOOP from @leah_nylen: The DOJ will probably reject Alphabet's concessions to avert an antitrust lawsuit over Google’s domi…

2022-07-13 16:57:21 @mark_riedl Durian dropping

2022-07-13 16:54:57 @Abebab Me: don't tell me to do what my body tells me to do or else I would just never talk to anyone.

2022-07-13 16:29:39 RT @thamar_solorio: Looking forward to @MMontesyGomez's keynote at #NAACL2022! Interested in learning about the state of NLP in Mexico? Or…

2022-07-13 16:17:05 RT @adinamwilliams: @ZeerakTalat and @HagenBlix are about to present our work (with me, @mayameme @ValvodaJosef @ryandcotterell) at @naaclm…

2022-07-13 16:12:12 RT @srush_nlp: You use GPUs everyday, but do you (actually) know how they work?GPU-Puzzles (v0.1) - 14 short puzzles in Python with a vis…

2022-07-13 16:10:15 @lizthegrey FRA Terminal 2 is worse.

2022-07-13 16:02:34 RT @YJernite: This makes me so happy! We were very intentional about prioritizing the geographical diversity of our training data.There's…

2022-07-13 16:02:24 RT @julien_c: This is less « shiny » than model size but at least as important: Intentional collation of data is the to a good model

2022-07-13 16:01:05 RT @EntilZhaPR: Hi #NAACL2022! Tomorrow, @ZeerakTalat and I are kickstarting an initiative to write an ACL service handbook. Been invited t…

2022-07-12 18:09:05 RT @jennwvaughan: It's been 5 months since I tweeted about burnout. I'm happy to say I've kept my burnout level low. Since my original t…

2022-07-12 18:03:02 RT @clured: I've been playing with the training dataset behind the extremely cool new BLOOM model from @BigscienceW and @huggingface. Here'…

2022-07-12 17:55:46 RT @jmendelsohn2: I’m at #NAACL2022 and really enjoying it! But please: when talking to students, ask us about our own research interests,…

2022-07-12 17:20:22 I was on @TheGoodRobot1 podcast! It was great! I got to talk about science, and misogyny in science, and at Google! Thanks to @KerryMackereth and Eleanor Drage for the conversation!https://t.co/FYlnK2nbtqhttps://t.co/N9As1wq8N6

2022-07-12 17:02:28 RT @TheGoodRobot1: IT'S HERE!!! The fantastic @mmitchell_ai talks to us about large language models and power, politics and misogyny in Big…

2022-07-11 15:35:23 @DavidSKrueger @hardmaru I don't feel welcome at ICLR, so that's a factor.

2022-07-11 15:31:12 RT @vanstriendaniel: Excited to announce #BigLAM, a @BigscienceW x @huggingface Hackathon focused on making library, archive, and museum da…

2022-07-10 17:30:07 @JoeReddington Nothing that's publicly open can do that with photorealism *at the moment*. This is a random face generator, tho, which might help?https://t.co/rLfbXCTu35

2022-07-10 17:28:27 RT @JoeReddington: AI people! I'm looking for a image generator for characters for my writing groups. I want to be able to put: "Happy b…

2022-07-08 15:34:25 @MatthDe197 @g__ferris @timnitGebru =(

2022-07-07 15:32:16 RT @_akhaliq: Will you be attending NAACL 2022 next week? Consider making a @Gradio Web Demo for your paper on @huggingface Spaces f…

2022-07-06 19:11:33 @SashaMTL @LeonDerczynski Such a cute blouse!!

2022-07-06 15:39:33 RT @YardenTal2: What is the connection between model size and gender bias? Excited to introduce my first paper “Fewer Errors, but More S…

2022-07-06 15:38:28 "I generally don’t take on unpaid speaking engagements. Please let me know how/if you’re paying your speakers." https://t.co/sz1qIprMNV

2022-07-06 13:42:39 My worlds of creating MS Seeing AI &

2022-07-06 13:03:57 @SashaMTL

2022-07-05 17:11:12 RT @sintelion: Preprint: "How many linguists does it take to fool a question answering model?"We take a systematic linguistically informe…

2022-07-05 17:10:37 @rinireg @Inframethod @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora Thank you @rinireg for the clever turn of phrase! It probably influenced what eventually became our title.

2022-07-05 15:22:16 @KLdivergence heads/up @Sparkes , to please change the recent incorrect headline as well.https://t.co/XfE1Yggevi

2022-07-05 15:21:03 @Anandstweets @timnitGebru @hypervisible @emilymbender @newscientist @Sparkes , could you change your recent incorrect headline as well?https://t.co/XfE1Yggevi

2022-07-05 15:20:46 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork @emilymbender @timnitGebru @Sparkes , could you change your recent incorrect headline as well?https://t.co/XfE1Yggevi

2022-07-05 15:19:01 @Inframethod @rinireg @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora AFAIK it's discriminative...

2022-07-05 15:14:38 @alexhanna Great job!

2022-07-05 15:03:33 RT @naaclmeeting: With NAACL2022 fast approaching, we are pleased to announce the 4 affinity group workshops that are held on July 10th, wi…

2022-07-04 23:19:51 "...they believe technology — and particularly AI — should be open, diverse, inclusive, responsible, and accessible for the benefit of humanity."o_OStrong support of @BigscienceW!https://t.co/EbcyKlWqyk

2022-07-04 17:58:35 RT @kchonyc: emotional after receiving #ECCV2022 decision? happy your paper got in? furious your paper didn't get in?#NeurIPS2022 papers…

2022-07-04 17:58:33 @kchonyc Hahaha. Here for you to express your emotion!

2022-07-04 17:56:37 RT @Abebab: Italy Bans Google Analytics Along with France, Austria on the basis that it is unlawful to collect user data on behaviour, demo…

2022-07-04 17:53:43 @julieletchner !! Gen Z reality.

2022-07-04 06:48:32 @julieletchner Beautiful!!

2022-07-04 02:05:58 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork (I realize you probably didn't even write the headline, sorry I didn't make that clear in my tweet.)

2022-07-04 01:40:24 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork I see it's been fixed now, thank you so much!!

2022-07-03 22:39:28 @smnikpoor I love Scottish folds!! I grew up with them. They were always very chill and slow.

2022-07-03 19:02:07 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork @emilymbender @timnitGebru Oh, @emilymbender had already dove into some of the issues. https://t.co/Z3xtM0w7Yv

2022-07-03 18:55:40 @mdekstrand I'd def curse at that!

2022-07-03 18:55:12 @mdekstrand

2022-07-03 18:46:36 @ZombieKilbourn @BobBorsley @emilymbender @hypervisible Hahaha

2022-07-03 18:46:23 @BobBorsley @emilymbender @hypervisible Love this idea.

2022-07-03 18:43:29 @bladesjester @mikehandles2220 Their first comment suggested to me that they're a white supremacist, so don't bother....

2022-07-03 18:40:35 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork I feel like those of us tagged and others like @emilymbender @timnitGebru etc are going to have to try to post-hoc fix the repercussions of this headline, so can we just change this headline in the first place?

2022-07-03 18:37:22 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun And why is this in "Equality" at Bloomberg?I am livid and so tired of this onslaught of never-ending uphill battle.

2022-07-03 18:35:38 @twittwoods @negar_rz @Abebab @rajiinio @leventsagun @CarringtonYork, the author of this piece: your headline is factually incorrect and massively detrimental to society in how misleading it is. May I request a correction to the headline so that it is factually accurate?

2022-07-03 18:27:26 Shame on Bloomberg for this headline. https://t.co/hqvBmlg3el

2022-07-03 18:23:24 @mdekstrand Omg totally

2022-07-03 18:19:22 @mikehandles2220 No and no, although the police did try and go with that narrative. Unfortunately for them, there's video.

2022-07-03 05:11:24 RT @katestarbird: In June, our team published a paper introducing a dataset (~50 million tweets) related to ~300 misleading stories that so…

2022-07-03 01:35:56 @TaliaRinger

2022-07-03 00:25:42 @anoushnajarian Thank you.

2022-07-02 21:12:01 @nir_benz Really appreciate you asking and thinking about all aspects of these things, though (good and bad).

2022-07-02 21:09:13 @nir_benz Thanks, pros and cons to me answering that...I think better for me to bow out. I'll be biased in ways that may not be productive, &

2022-07-02 20:29:42 @KLdivergence https://t.co/lmIJIfjMeY

2022-07-02 20:25:30 @KLdivergence <

2022-07-02 20:05:26 @nir_benz Yuh, absolutely. It's actually the kind of stuff I helped build at Google...So the fact it's fundamentally changed rigorous testing there is bittersweet.

2022-07-02 20:03:34 @KLdivergence Don't say that I am going to make you see all my pictures and videos!!!Also you should come visit me.

2022-07-02 20:00:13 @nir_benz ....except AFAICU they don't release these models because of the horrible things they do relevant to societal context and bias (among other things). So...no.

2022-07-02 19:47:54 When I talk about the few people at G at L7+ who created a massively hostile environment, to the point of me needing to massively increase my medication &

2022-07-02 19:46:28 Since writing this, the mentioned G VP has (continued to) engage in treating me with hostility. I guess now it's worth knowing: He was 1 of the few ppl @ G who actively fought against my career advancement. He lied to HR &

2022-07-02 19:41:33 RT @timnitGebru: Since reporters are still asking about this and I really don’t want to talk about sentient machines, posting again what @…

2022-07-02 19:20:18 @Abebab @_alialkhatib OMG. That's so violating physically and psychologically.

2022-07-02 19:19:08 RT @colinraffel: As of today, I've been an assistant professor for two years. It's been both awesome and difficult. I wrote a blog post abo…

2022-07-02 19:13:11 @maddbee75 @TaliaRinger @jocrossick @somelaurachick Yeah, this seems like a reasonable bet: https://t.co/Ec6kFkJ3zs

2022-07-02 19:06:07 @troutgirl Aww, what a thoughtful present!And yeah, I LOVE Bengals and used to really want one, but I've learned about the declining songbird population and it seems a Bengal would be a bad choice. =( =( =(

2022-07-02 19:03:59 @d_metaxa WHAT WAS THIS ROOMMATE DOING WITH THESE CATS WERE THEY MISSING LEGS BEFORE SO MANY QUESTIONS

2022-07-02 19:03:01 @TaliaRinger @jocrossick @somelaurachick After crowdsourcing, it seems I specifically need an old, clumsy, three-legged rescue ragdoll cat.Should be super easy to find, yeah?<

2022-07-02 19:00:24 @d_metaxa ...your partner's roommate has TWO three-legged cats with their hind legs missing?!

2022-07-02 03:22:43 "what is critical here is the interests of the humans involved in the analysis, not the machines."Really helpful context on the history of AI/consciousness from my colleague @GiadaPistilli.https://t.co/3nbzTIFdxV https://t.co/U4RVcTivag

2022-07-02 03:15:27 @justinhendrix @timnitGebru @GiadaPistilli She's my colleague @huggingface

2022-07-01 23:35:48 RT @timnitGebru: I was just thinking about @IfeomaOzoma’s heroic work in bringing us the Silenced no More act &

2022-07-01 23:32:30 What do you call a debiased neural network?A neutral network!

2022-07-01 23:31:50 So, meanwhile, South Korea (esp. Naver) has been using "Hyperscale Models" as a name for Large Neural Networks.https://t.co/ptYqRxGtxP

2022-07-01 23:28:14 @ricangius Link to news source?

2022-07-01 23:27:33 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale Also...why are you we bugging Frank? Sorry Frank! Hope this is interesting or easily ignorable.

2022-07-01 23:26:50 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale This is a false dichotomy.And again abt sociopolitical processes. Transparency artifacts are an object within the processes, specifically functioning to open up more options (not to limit them), and largely designed to open up more culturally-informed paths.

2022-07-01 23:22:37 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale It's about carving the paths forward from the path we're currently on. If you require another path that's blocked by a wall, you're going to have to first provide the tools to dig through the wall.

2022-07-01 23:20:52 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale I think that point misses the realities of trying to change tech structures. You can't say "do harm remediation, not documentation" if you want something to change. What works is to say, "Hey, you know how you document things, and also launch things? Well check out this..."

2022-07-01 23:18:52 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale Yeah, this is I think the major point of disagreement.Documentation artifacts that many have been working on, incl. MCs, are part of a much a larger picture of fundamental structural change. They're critical at this point in time *towards* the goals that many of us share.

2022-07-01 23:15:42 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale Ah, but they are part of a timeline. They do work today towards new work tomorrow. Once we have transparency artifacts, we're able to further open up accountability processes. As we further open up accountability processes, we're able to hold people/orgs accountable.

2022-07-01 23:12:40 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale Given the ongoing work on transparency and lowering access/knowledge barriers, what's the difference you're seeing here between "being burdened with" and "having the option to"?

2022-07-01 23:09:39 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale Maybe you're reading "can" as "have to"/"must"?

2022-07-01 23:05:28 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale ...while also being introduced by people who are in CS (obviously) and thus come from a CS perspective in an attempt to bridge the CS world with the rest of the world.

2022-07-01 23:04:23 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale I agree it doesn't solve them, and I also agree that "solving cultural harm" is distinct from "writing a documentation web page". But ideally such documentation takes into account a lot of relevant background (foreground) problems, and I'm saying that they do...

2022-07-01 23:00:54 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale ...These are objects that are working towards transparency, not towards opacity. Yes, none of this work is perfect or finished. But no, the work has not relied on opacity.

2022-07-01 22:59:38 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale That's not true?Many are working towards a world where transparency artifacts -- such as MCs, etc., -- exist in a world where tech is used only WITH knowledge and consent.There is nothing about them that requires lack of consent (?) from subjects harmed by technology.

2022-07-01 22:56:35 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale You are speaking to critical cultural and structural issues and processes, not the work being done on widening transparency and accountability, which in many ways seem aligned with your goals rather than relevant targets of your critique.

2022-07-01 22:53:36 @bengansky @jackayline @FrankPasquale But pointing to MCs as the thing you are critiquing with these words feels like pointing to a banana as the thing you are critiquing with these words. Removing the MC target, the words you are saying make sense, represent ideas shared/articulated by many in the FAccT community.

2022-06-28 15:08:16 RT @LucileSaulnier: @BigscienceW BLOOM's intermediate checkpoints have already shown some very cool capabilities! What's great about BLO…

2022-06-28 15:07:20 Evaluate your models, kids!!Excited this easy peasy eval is at last unrolling @huggingface ...and more to come! https://t.co/WWyu6JUl78

2022-06-28 15:03:43 RT @_lewtun: Excited to share a new tool we’ve built called Evaluation on the Hub !With this tool you can evaluate any model on any da…

2022-06-28 15:03:26 RT @douwekiela: Today, we introduce Evaluation on the Hub, a new tool in the @HuggingFace ecosystem that lets you evaluate any model on any…

2022-06-28 15:00:19 RT @FAccTConference: In the meantime, DEI Scholar Soledad Magnone (@50_0le) is using participatory action research to explore the effectiv…

2022-06-27 22:25:37 I want the twisted reality of Google logic to go away and it feels like it never will. I had actually thought I was the problem.

2022-06-27 22:24:42 1: Get stuck working w higher-up who has to feel superior to you2: Provide typical research feedback on their project3: Receive hostile demeaning response4: Higher-up engages in whisper network w other Higher-ups5: Get rep for being "difficult"6: Blocked from promo/fired

2022-06-27 20:34:29 RT @b_cavello: At 4pm CEST today (10am Eastern) I will be delivering a lecture on the Future of AI at @unibo, the oldest university in the…

2022-06-27 14:42:37 @morganklauss I've totally done this. As @BrianRhoArc pointed out at the time, if you just arguing with yourself is creating a pocket of papers accepted at top conferences, you're in a pretty sweet spot.

2022-06-27 14:30:24 RT @jonmladd: The original "I've got a lot of tabs open."

2022-06-27 14:29:26 https://t.co/POD9rCDIeW https://t.co/Qw7OYzlwyG

2022-06-27 14:23:34 RT @anyabelz: We need more participants for our #ReproHum Survey of NLP and ML researchers' experience and views of reproducibility!! Takes…

2022-06-27 14:15:09 Was told there was a #FAccT2022 paper critical of model cards, thought it was "CounterFAccTual: ...", but the criticism there barely scratches the surface/doesn't hone in on model cards specifically. Was there another? I could write a good one...

2022-06-27 14:00:14 RT @annargrs: Resurfacing this awesome blog post by @nsaphra, for anybody interested in model interpretability who might have missed it. A…

2022-06-27 13:51:26 RT @frimelle: As LMs are now widely used, the question of abuse of #nlproc research is more pressing than ever. We (@rnav_arora @ZeerakTala…

2022-06-27 13:47:18 @SashaMTL @julien_c @BigScienceLLM @BigscienceW We all know Julien has a secret life as a plus-size model showing off nerd chic attire.

2022-06-27 00:24:42 @TaliaRinger Hahah. I've been in this situation before.Here's what me and my friends ended up going with. https://t.co/JaJyeD23VP

2022-06-26 21:45:34 @KLdivergence There are definitely camellias all over LA, and I've seen a few in Seattle. So it may be easyish to find the fresh ingredients in the Bay Area?

2022-06-26 20:46:48 @BrianRhoArc @ryandcotterell

2022-06-26 20:37:56 @andrewthesmart @TaliaRinger @shiraamitchell Jealous!!!

2022-06-24 23:08:05 , ! https://t.co/GqXuThoA2V

2022-06-24 22:34:13 RT @deliprao: Paraphrase: “In our country, men have more rights for their guns than women have for their bodies.”

2022-06-24 20:55:07 @cajundiscordian @Google If it happens, it would likely be Friday at 5pm ET (when news is most likely to be buried).

2022-06-24 20:37:03 RT @Abebab: #FAccT surely is not perfect &

2022-06-24 20:24:50 @julien_c

2022-06-24 11:58:50 @megyoung0 @FAccTConference In addition to @megyoung0 's excellent paper (https://t.co/Ke6HiF9mOj), this paper by @KLdivergence blew my mind https://t.co/esanG7hfAh

2022-06-24 11:55:11 What @megyoung0 says. This year's @FAccTConference was so, so good. The CRAFT sessions &

2022-06-24 11:52:47 @LeonDerczynski @TaliaRinger

2022-06-24 11:52:27 RT @LeonDerczynski: @mmitchell_ai @TaliaRinger neosexism! it's pernicious"Neosexism against women is an implicit form of misogyny, which…

2022-06-24 11:51:40 I have no clue how donations work and legalities, but if I'm not breaking anything, that seems like the right thing to do?

2022-06-24 11:51:04 Q: @FAccTConference (main AI Ethics conf) was $10,000 short. They also turned down Google sponsorship due to G's continued refusal to address structural discrimination &

2022-06-24 11:34:57 I've ended up having this kind of visualization in order to wrap my head around the phenomenon @TaliaRinger mentions. https://t.co/TBOexdPa9o https://t.co/dy9mx7A6hK

2022-06-24 11:18:49 @TaliaRinger This sort of gets to the heart of systemic sexism, right? It's when you think, e.g., keeping on a misogynist PR guy is "fair".

2022-06-24 11:00:14 RT @athundt: On @BBCTechTent, @vzeng24 &

2022-06-24 10:26:49 @Abebab @ria_kalluri @rajiinio @negar_rz

2022-06-24 10:26:41 RT @Abebab: this makes attending #FAccT22 in-person worthwhile (with @ria_kalluri, @rajiinio &

2022-06-24 10:25:50 @andrewthesmart @negar_rz @seyiolojo @caglarml @leventsagun @FAccTConference @in4dmatics Hahahaaha BOO ARTISTIC NARRATIVES

2022-06-24 10:20:35 RT @dallascard: @_KarenHao at #FAccT22: Why do so many articles end up hyping AI? As it becomes more prevalent everywhere, more journalists…

2022-06-24 10:20:01 @KLdivergence Thank you so much for everything you've done!!

2022-06-24 10:18:39 RT @YJernite: The 3rd post in our series reviews much of the work we did on distributed data governance to promote reproducible research th…

2022-06-23 15:21:20 RT @emilymbender: A much better way to draw on science fiction in technology development is @cfiesler 's Black Mirror Writer's Room exercis…

2022-06-23 15:21:12 RT @emilymbender: @marialuisapaulr @amazon And while we're here, more evidence of how Silicon Valley has entirely missed the point of specu…

2022-06-23 15:15:33 Also includes thoughts from @ClementDelangue, @borisdayma. Penned by @billyperrigo. =)

2022-06-23 15:13:18 Appreciate this piece. Covers a lot of ground wrt what's happened in AI over past few weeks &

2022-06-23 15:01:51 @Abebab Love "braided".

2022-06-23 15:01:29 RT @Abebab: The fallacy of AI functionality, @rajiinio &

2022-06-23 15:00:06 RT @djleufer: @mmitchell_ai @tracyfrey Good to know, and totally agreed, we shouldn't be praising companies for withdrawing products that w…

2022-06-23 14:55:58 RT @tracyfrey: This–and the decision to pause on any work on creditworthiness / risk #AI in Cloud–@peard33 wrote about last year. Paresh k…

2022-06-23 12:38:24 RT @billyperrigo: I wrote about how machine learning apps are on the brink of widespread public adoption and societal impact: the ris…

2022-06-23 09:19:07 FWIW, under @tracyfrey in Google Cloud, these problematic tools were not launched in the first place. (I also helped a bit.)"Success is measured by lack of headlines" when you work on ethical AI, and that can hurt your career in PR-driven companies. We're both gone now. https://t.co/yszYIGFDTj

2022-06-23 09:14:43 @deliprao I do love Promptsmith!

2022-06-23 08:53:31 RT @SashaMTL: With this paper finally getting the kudos it so deserves, I wanted to reshare this brilliant rendition of its NeurIPS review…

2022-06-23 06:41:51 @JesseDodge @facct I hope I did an OK job representing the work of so many people!

2022-06-23 06:41:00 @aaronsnoswell Yuh!

2022-06-23 06:40:37 RT @KathyReid: Kia ora @mahelona - @mmitchell_ai just gave a special shoutout to the @TeHiku Māori #data license @FAccTConference on data…

2022-06-22 22:58:59 @danish_c - Responsible AI Licensing@Carlos_MFerr - LLMs and Legality@osanseviero - @huggingface and our approaches to Responsible democratization of AIJust a few folks who may not get the limelight as much as they should given what they have to share in this space.

2022-06-22 22:54:10 Another interesting thing is, AFAIK, a lot of the engineers directly working on implementing + deploying this don't WANT to do this. But they also want to keep their jobs. https://t.co/FzLD3hZTA8

2022-06-22 21:48:19 @YJernite - All things @BigscienceW and @huggingface

2022-06-22 21:46:01 Am getting a lot of media requests+other sources asks.FWIW, from an ethicsy viewpoint or people journalists may be less familiar with, I've been recommending:

2022-06-22 21:32:03 @SashaMTL .work().it()

2022-06-21 12:42:51 @athundt @FAccTConference Good idea, thanks!

2022-06-21 12:42:43 Helpful directions for #FAccT2022 #FAccT attendees if you get easily lost like me. So thankful @athundt helped me get to the conference today! https://t.co/60j7Lnk6Ag

2022-06-21 12:40:17 @Abebab CONGRATULATIONS!!!So well deserved!!

2022-06-21 12:34:26 RT @aaronsnoswell: Sage words of wisdom from @mmitchell_ai @ #FAccT2022 - "Sentient Entities could be called 'Sentientities'". When this go…

2022-06-21 12:34:00 @aaronsnoswell Bahaha. I'm honored that was tweet-worthy!

2022-06-21 12:32:44 So lovely to see so many people I've missed in person. https://t.co/uQ6bdZV7BP

2022-06-21 07:35:26 @kunal_jt @ClementDelangue We're remote and distributed, so means different time zones -- so asynchronous communication is actually really helpful!That said, we do arrange times to meet face to face, although tbh it tends to be more like a "coffee break" with people to just talk abt what's on our minds

2022-06-20 22:12:17 @mdekstrand @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference As long as I personally don't have to leave Seattle, I'd be down...(I recognize that's unhelpful, just trying not to travel too much...)

2022-06-20 22:10:25 One of my favorite things about @ClementDelangue as a CEO is that he actively discourages meetings unless there is a specific reason the meeting is preferable to other modes (including Huddles!)As a meeting-hater, this emerging cultural norm is amazing. https://t.co/dtPXnkAi0B

2022-06-20 21:34:26 @mdekstrand @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference Maybe

2022-06-20 21:34:13 @mdekstrand @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference Jk

2022-06-20 21:34:08 @mdekstrand @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference Except no Californians allowed.

2022-06-20 21:33:37 @mdekstrand @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference We could have a WINCO ai ethics symposium, hehe.

2022-06-20 19:03:08 @athundt @FAccTConference THANK YOU!!See you there.

2022-06-20 19:02:30 @aylin_cim @baxterkb @FAccTConference Booo! =( =(Maybe those of us AI ethicsy people in Seattle can have our own little mini conference.

2022-06-20 11:16:20 @TaliaRinger @kat_heller Back at you!!

2022-06-20 04:30:15 RT @osanseviero: Do you want to learn Deep Q-Learning in a practical + fun way? Check out the 3rd installment of @huggingface free Open-S…

2022-06-20 04:01:52 @pbAstronaut @Brainmage +1

2022-06-20 04:00:19 RT @Brainmage: Well I REALLY don't like how similar all these pictures of "Crungus", a made up word I made up.Why are they all the same m…

2022-06-20 03:56:01 @MaskedHuzzah @mr_hopkinson @Brainmage

2022-06-19 23:22:43 Such an important reframe on the state of the art. https://t.co/17fU6iGjds

2022-06-19 23:21:09 @MelMitchell1 @StephenMarche Thanks for commenting on this article. I read it as well and had related thoughts. Appreciate yours!

2022-06-19 23:17:52 @MelMitchell1 I think several Google Research leaders have made it very very very clear that they don't particularly respect research peer review.

2022-06-19 22:11:31 RT @LivingwMachines: This tutorial by @vanstriendaniel, @giorgiatolfo, Kaspar Beelen and Victorina Morris covers all the steps involved in…

2022-06-19 14:02:10 @SashaMTL =( =(

2022-06-19 13:58:11 @LeonDerczynski @deliprao @richlitt Haha

2022-06-19 13:56:21 @Abebab See you soon!!

2022-06-18 18:53:13 I feel this.At Google I was regularly criticized for my personality. It makes working there so much more hellish than people who don't have to deal with that realize... https://t.co/7NcmD3fR5O

2022-06-18 18:51:46 RT @timnitGebru: Someone sent me this video and I watched 1 second and couldn't watch again. No words.

2022-06-18 17:34:57 @hannawallach @timnitGebru @katzish FWIW, I try to buy subscriptions to these places now...they're generally not too expensive*, and support journalism. Also you can ask for it as a birthday gift or something!*Except for Bloomberg. Bloomberg is insane expensive. Too bad they write things relevant to me grrrr.

2022-06-18 16:20:56 RT @Borhane_B_H: Folks in the #AIAuditing space, this #FAccT2022 paper by @schock @rajiinio &

2022-06-18 16:03:05 RT @cajundiscordian: "The focus on sentience also misses the point, says Gebru. It prevents people from questioning real, existing harms li…

2022-06-18 15:56:25 RT @TaliaRinger: Citation counts give you the illusion of an objective metric, but in fact reinforce all of the same problems subjective ev…

2022-06-18 15:38:02 RT @technology: Do computers really have feelings? Former Google research scientist Margaret Mitchell weighs in on the Blake Lemoine cont…

2022-06-18 15:37:57 RT @emilychangtv: If you watch one thing about the Google/AI/feelings debate, watch this 10 mins with @mmitchell_ai re: Blake Lemoine aka @…

2022-06-18 01:48:21 @SashaMTL @emilymbender I'm a pretty big deal. https://t.co/wrioGvE0Uj

2022-06-18 01:46:49 @emilymbender https://t.co/EiTarYV9MH

2022-06-18 01:42:46 @emilymbender Oh!!! Yeah!!! How did I forget about that?!?!?!?!Yes ok not my first time at all.

2022-06-18 01:37:44 RT @histoftech: The idea of tech-as-savior to downtrodden workers doing “undesirable” or “easily automated” jobs has a long and problematic…

2022-06-18 01:37:13 RT @histoftech: The computer “made possible the saving of institutions pretty much as they were, which otherwise might have had to be chang…

2022-06-18 01:35:04 @LeonDerczynski Mostly interested in the kitty foot.

2022-06-18 01:30:40 @KevinBankston Hehe. My secret life as a late-night tomato dicer infomercial host.

2022-06-18 01:04:29 RT @Maja4EO: We are incredibly happy to announce that @huggingface is going to support our #Transformers4EnvironmentalScience workshop in S…

2022-06-18 01:03:40 @julieletchner I'm in Seattle! I want a geode cake!!!!But there's no way I could purchase said geode cake from you in time for the birthday party I'm going to *tomorrow*.....right?

2022-06-18 01:02:19 @julieletchner WOW.Incredible.

2022-06-18 00:43:24 I was on Bloomberg TV today! My first time on TV in my role as a scientist. https://t.co/VQR79H1s9g

2022-06-17 17:13:11 @osanseviero Not for lack of trying!! Those papers have so far been rejected on my end. I'm sure there will be increased work on this.

2022-06-17 17:02:48 @timnitGebru I was JUST thinking that. So much going on.

2022-06-17 15:56:08 @hipsterelectron @timnitGebru @katzish

2022-06-17 15:55:05 @SashaMTL @vanstriendaniel @LeonDerczynski @JCornebise @ml_collective @savvyRL @timnitGebru @joavanschoren @math_rachel @huggingface @christopher It's true, he is the best. And you know we're right because his Twitter handle is literally the clear, common name @christopher!

2022-06-17 15:53:14 New piece from @timnitGebru and me, with editing help from @katzish Thanks to WaPo for the opportunity! https://t.co/0p3Mfq1Oxj

2022-06-17 15:48:53 We're putting out some pieces abt "Responsible AI" &

2022-06-17 15:40:02 RT @DAIRInstitute: In this Op-ed, @timnitGebru &

2022-06-17 15:26:14 As @nitashatiku said, "of all the takes, of course @kharijohnson delivers something excellent and worth your time". Featuring my colleagues @timnitGebru and @GiadaPistilli. https://t.co/JWDmRToiGz

2022-06-17 15:25:22 RT @timnitGebru: Thank you @kharijohnson. "Giada Pistilli (@GiadaPistilli), an ethicist at Hugging Face,...“This narrative provokes fear,…

2022-06-16 16:04:18 @hardmaru This is terrifying.

2022-06-16 15:59:32 @hardmaru Aaah

2022-06-16 15:57:20 @tallinzen Hahaa so true.

2022-06-16 15:54:40 @MirandaRosalise Idk what you're talking about, no one is really criticizing me...other than you I guess, and others in replies to this.

2022-06-16 00:46:57 @NGiollaEaspaig Hahahaha. I'll leave the Jesus but take the rainbows!!

2022-06-16 00:46:34 Oh who am I kidding. https://t.co/wcUcquRmuM

2022-06-16 00:45:10 https://t.co/XeV4rfZhCy

2022-06-16 00:40:00 In my role as a computer scientist practicing ethics, I've served as a punching bag for 2 prominent white men in AI this past week. As a punching bag, you have to absorb the hatred so you stop the ripple effect of being mean to others in turn. I don't like this part of my job.

2022-06-15 23:46:24 @AlanVRK @mohomran @cajundiscordian I don't know why you want to fight so much, or about what exactly, but I am admittedly going to be a lame partner for you on that.

2022-06-15 23:43:44 @JCornebise @ivanorsolic @timnitGebru Why so short??

2022-06-15 20:27:08 RT @emilymbender: I think the main lesson from this week's AI sentience debate is the urgent need for transparency around so-called AI syst…

2022-06-15 19:57:33 RT @ruthstarkman: Lessons from the GPT-4Chan Controversy "GPT-4chan is already optimized to output racist, homophobic, antiseminitic, sexis…

2022-06-15 19:50:43 RT @MelMitchell1: I enjoyed reading this thoughtful article by @StephenMarche:https://t.co/A25quByC5G

2022-06-15 19:48:57 RT @nitashatiku: Stochastic Parrots paper by @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @emilymbender warned: "Work on synthetic human behavior is a brigh…

2022-06-15 19:48:31 @mohomran @cajundiscordian I actually really disagree on this one.I generally feel sickened by the reductive narratives around ethics in tech, this episode as well as others.It's easy to paint Blake as <

2022-06-15 19:46:34 @mohomran @cajundiscordian Ah, well already I see how the reductive narratives can make the nuances difficult to see. =/For starters, I'm not an ethicist. I'm a computer scientist who practices ethics. The reasoning further falls apart from there. Blake's goal isn't "hype". News outlets, OTOH...

2022-06-15 18:50:18 I keep being surprised that ppl are surprised that me &

2022-06-15 18:43:41 @alkoller @cajundiscordian That is really generous of you to give it both a brain AND a vat!

2022-06-15 15:45:35 RT @_sam_sinha_: As a ML researcher, this is 100% accurate. That is the exact outcome when you combine Transformers, Large Language Models,…

2022-06-15 15:21:33 RT @LeonDerczynski: A clear, grounding walk through how and why we can and do misperceive machine learning models' proficiencies, from @emi…

2022-06-15 15:21:15 RT @ChristaErnst1: @mark_riedl .@mark_riedl @PHDcomics https://t.co/HYGhIo6i88

2022-06-15 15:19:35 @mark_riedl https://t.co/afUy4yuy8Y

2022-06-14 14:32:59 RT @timnitGebru: Re-upping this thread. This whole "sentience" thing is a result of all the $$$ and hyping that's been going on in the fiel…

2022-06-14 14:32:02 @mark_riedl I feel you on this

2022-06-14 14:29:17 RT @jsradford: After the brouhaha around whether Google's LaMDa is sentient, I read @emilymbender's and @alkoller "Climbing towards NLU" (N…

2022-06-14 14:24:44 RT @kirstie_j: Back from my first haircut in many months. Huge thanks to my mum for taking care of baby while I was getting did Bac…

2022-06-14 14:21:08 "Anyone who claims to have provided scientifically conclusive proof one way or the other regarding the sentience or consciousness of any entity is simply claiming to have done something which is impossible." Nice clarifying piece from @cajundiscordian . https://t.co/ZhoBv1rT86

2022-06-14 04:12:29 @cherthedev Oh my god. =(

2022-06-14 03:56:26 RT @monicabyrne13: What I had to say about AI in 2018, and pretty much what I say today. https://t.co/tpwjDL8Mpi

2022-06-14 01:40:59 @nsubramani23 @emilymbender

2022-06-13 23:17:08 @emilymbender The blog post announcing it doesn't link to something like that. But fear not! They say that Responsibility is first.So yeah, nothing to see here.https://t.co/Fbku7R2wZY

2022-06-13 20:03:53 @rctatman Did you find the direct source for this pasted quote?

2022-06-13 19:59:04 @rctatman uuuughhh and that totally seems like something they'd do.

2022-06-13 19:45:04 @CGraziul There's been SO MUCH work on model cards recently, and I've sort of lost track. Gonna ping @mkgerchick and @_____ozo__ , my interns who have been doing a TON of work on the landscape of model cards right now and who has been doing what, in case they have references/suggestions.

2022-06-13 19:44:01 @athundt @CGraziul Thanks for the plug!!

2022-06-13 17:37:26 @Theophite Ah, no no, I'd be doing something wrong if everyone just fully agreed with everything I was doing.(Although that could be nice, that's also kind of terrifying.)

2022-06-13 16:58:44 @Theophite Wait, why wouldn't I have much that's nice to say about you? What did you do!??!

2022-06-13 16:57:29 It continues to be the case that @GiadaPistilli articulates really important points *before* most people are catching on to the importance of them. https://t.co/52cQrD6oV8

2022-06-13 16:56:22 RT @GiadaPistilli: I will no longer engage in philosophical discussions about conscious AI/superintelligent machines, and here's why. (long…

2022-06-13 16:14:00 Was amazing to learn from @GiadaPistilli on how to create an ethical charter -- now available for @BigscienceW . https://t.co/aE0fuVod47

2022-06-13 14:36:08 RT @zachlipton: All this would be a sort of fun diversion about the very human foible of being spooked by a stochastic parrot if it wasn't…

2022-06-13 02:52:34 @kristintynski @aislingcrean @emilymbender @nitashatiku The questions you're posing won't really have answers, though--at least not answers that would make sense to me. They can be thought exercises, but that's not something I'm going to be really helpful with. It's not really my role in all of this anyway.

2022-06-13 02:44:05 @kristintynski @aislingcrean @emilymbender @nitashatiku I think many questions are worth asking.

2022-06-13 00:56:03 @kristintynski @gwern I think your q might be better positioned to shed some light if it were to refocus away from science and certainty, to faith. Given what we've seen, "can you have faith that ... xyz". This is where I think the different ways people are seeing this becomes more clear.

2022-06-13 00:52:29 @kristintynski @gwern That question is jumping from smthn like "disprove the null hypothesis" to something like "disprove the alternative hypothesis". And that means your q is somewhat wandering outside of basic scientific method practices that are really helpful for discovery.

2022-06-13 00:46:52 @KathrynECramer And human social constructs. A discussion abt communication more generally is a much much larger discussion. Luckily (?) in this case, we're already bounded by human language and what that is *in particular*.

2022-06-13 00:44:40 @KathrynECramer Yuh, it's a good point, and related to an annoyance I have about how AI consciousness &

2022-06-12 04:30:27 RT @alexhanna: I will also say this much: don't insult Blake's intelligence or motive. Blake is not some Sam Altman shitposter who is tryin…

2022-06-12 03:55:42 @mim_djo @kevinmarks @nitashatiku @cajundiscordian Yeah, Penrose influenced me.

2022-06-12 03:42:17 6. So then what happens? What intents will be perceived (whether or not we agree on the consciousness)? And what is the response to those intents?

2022-06-12 03:37:46 5. The thing I keep coming back to is what happens next. If one person perceives consciousness today, then more will tomorrow. There won't be a point of agreement any time soon: We'll have people who think AI is conscious and people who think AI is not conscious, &

2022-06-12 00:20:37 4. It's modeling how people express communicative intent in the form of text strings. This is distinct from developing intent itself.

2022-06-12 00:18:30 3. What, then, is a model that has never learned how to have communicative intent doing when it *seems to have communicative intent*?

2022-06-12 00:17:10 2. Large Language Models (LLMs) are not developed in a social context. They are developed in an observational context. They see how *other people* communicate. What does this mean? It means LLMs never learn communicative intent. Minimally, they have no practice.

2022-06-12 00:13:36 1 Human language is fundamentally *social*. Not observational, isolated from us as we develop. We create it and dive into it with others. It is via this interaction--communication with another being, back and forth (in whatever form)--that we come to perceive minds of others.

2022-06-12 00:07:42 @timnitGebru You can simply see Sections 6.1 and 6.2 in the parrots paper. https://t.co/NAiByFfVnQWe had our careers thrashed (at least in part) for writing it, so it's worth reading...

2022-06-12 00:05:54 In 2020, before @timnitGebru and I were fired, we saw some things w large language models that deeply concerned us.For me, 1 concern was connected to my training in psycholinguistics &

2022-06-12 00:03:08 A lot of mixed feelings about what's being reported in this great article from @nitashatiku

2022-06-11 23:38:43 Got to see @TaliaRinger today! And my pup Mildred was....not on her best behavior.But cute!!Here is us at Green Lake in Seattle, a glacial lake in the middle of North Seattle. https://t.co/lKnlLJgQoD

2022-06-11 17:49:37 @samuelmcurtis Hahaha

2022-06-11 16:19:18 @SashaMTL I see strawberry leaves!And maybe flat parsley or cilantro?

2022-06-11 16:17:08 @emilymbender @_florianmai And c) place Stanford as the center of gravity for this kind of work...without Stanford having actually done the work to be the center of gravity. This is the marketing+capture side that gives me the creeps.

2022-06-11 00:33:01 RT @osanseviero: Would you like to learn what @huggingface has been doing in Computer Vision?See this amazing livestream with @NielsRogge…

2022-06-11 00:31:18 @ruthstarkman @IEthics @jackclarkSF @alexhern @HaydnBelfield @huggingface @BigscienceW Thank you!!

2022-06-10 23:42:21 @samuelmcurtis Blelcomb to Don's Donikuns Dookins, may I plake your borbo?

2022-06-10 23:40:46 @cajundiscordian @huggingface You're too nice to me!!I'm lucky to have you as a friend.

2022-06-10 19:09:11 @wes_deng @harmankkaur Cool work, thank you!

2022-06-10 18:49:40 @tallinzen Yeah, I can say more when poll is over.

2022-06-10 18:48:48 @tallinzen Actually that other poll question could be "who do you think did more work *on this specific paper*?".

2022-06-10 18:47:31 @tallinzen I was pondering that as well and wondering what the poll might look like if I further added that in. I personally think the latter. But another poll worth asking is "who do you think did more work?" 2nd or last.

2022-06-10 18:28:49 For a paper with ~5 authors, who do you think did more work to help the paper be accepted (between the 2 choices below)?

2022-06-10 17:24:53 @natlibscot @EdCDCS Would people in this program perhaps be interested in being a Data Host within BigScience? https://t.co/8NdWPRzIi1

2022-06-10 16:56:31 @emilymbender One of the journalists who absolutely beautifully handles this is @_KarenHao . Her work is always a breath of fresh air.

2022-06-10 16:55:39 More stuff from the Economist today that risks really misinforming the public in a way that will ultimately be harmful to the public. =( https://t.co/XmEZwqWj3G

2022-06-10 16:48:01 @thehardmenpath https://t.co/Q2F4JRlqYX

2022-06-10 16:40:39 @thehardmenpath Maybe this is what Dunkin Donuts looks like in Montreal.

2022-06-10 16:40:15 @thehardmenpath Kinda like visiting Montreal from the US. It's the same but like 25% different.

2022-06-10 16:39:48 @thehardmenpath Oh man, that's such a good idea.

2022-06-10 16:37:43 DONT DUNS

2022-06-10 16:37:19 RT @Abebab: here's the thesis as promised https://t.co/zTf3Wuym6M

2022-06-10 16:37:02 I love the logos that come out of DALLE 2 and I never want them to go away. https://t.co/NMSliabuyJ

2022-06-10 16:28:36 @alexhanna Hope you're feeling Ok.

2022-06-10 16:28:21 @alexhanna Oh wait no also you had COVID.I'm sure that doesn't plump one up.

2022-06-10 16:27:50 @alexhanna I want whatever it is you got goin on.

2022-06-10 16:27:11 @LukasGalke @mark_riedl Ha!

2022-06-10 16:26:58 @mark_riedl My phone recently autocorrected "well" to "spinach", as in, "Hope you're spinach!"

2022-06-09 14:17:49 @RandomRoute66 Totally reasonable.

2022-06-09 13:57:18 @andrewthesmart Love it!

2022-06-08 23:04:20 @raphaelmilliere @GaryMarcus This is where the naming uncomfortably moves for me from seeming like a handy term to seeming like corporate comms to try to reframe unappealing narratives. (2/2)

2022-06-08 23:03:11 @raphaelmilliere @GaryMarcus Are all of these self-supervised models trained on mass scrapes of web data?If "web data" is key, I think it's a bit important to call that out, rather than sweeping it under the rug...To sweep is to obscure the very serious issues around, eg, lack of informed consent...(1/2)

2022-06-08 22:20:30 @raphaelmilliere Yeah, that's an important point.

2022-06-08 21:47:25 @jackclarkSF @alexhern @HaydnBelfield @huggingface @BigscienceW ...and what would need to exist for that to happen is still very shaky. (2/2)

2022-06-08 21:46:04 @jackclarkSF @alexhern @HaydnBelfield @huggingface We've been thinking about this more in the context of data than models, within @BigscienceW (recent paper: https://t.co/2hgSZhxpzr), where distributed "data custodians" play a key role. This is a first step -- the question of extending this to models... (1/2)

2022-06-08 21:40:46 @jackclarkSF @alexhern @HaydnBelfield Humans do have an innate concept of privacy, though. Historical work that recently @IreneSolaiman and @unsojo have been keying in on.

2022-06-08 21:00:09 @raphaelmilliere Yesterday my interns offhandedly referred to "parent models" in HF and it struck me as kind of brilliant.There's also of course "initialized models" and other sort of more neutral terms less tied to power.

2022-06-08 20:36:41 @raphaelmilliere I think I first came across it in the context of VGG (so ca. 2015?), but I don't know that anyone ever said "we introduce the term base model....". It was just sort of the clear generic term for what it was.

2022-06-08 20:29:28 @raphaelmilliere It's interesting to think about why self-supervision is a critical component of these kinds of models. I'm not sure I understand why it is or should be.

2022-06-08 20:01:48 Reminder to everyone starting to publish in ML: "Foundation models" is *not* a recognized ML term

2022-06-08 18:43:13 I flew back from Paris early to examine+make an offer on a house yesterday. Instead, I had to clean up a mean fellow's mess. Nonconsensual maid-ery. https://t.co/pU48IwbjDG

2022-06-08 17:27:59 @braneloop @_joaogui1 @ykilcher @GiadaPistilli She really could not have been more on the nose about the ASAP part...

2022-06-08 17:27:35 @braneloop @_joaogui1 @ykilcher You're being way too kind! It did not at all, we were already working through this scenario, and it was part of our discussions last week at our offsite, with folks like @GiadaPistilli really stressing the need to have mechanisms for handling malicious use situations asap.

2022-06-08 15:40:49 RT @emilymbender: That is: just because someone else could do the same thing to make it easy to generate toxic content at scale and on dema…

2022-06-08 15:23:01 @hila_gonen @aclmeeting @ravfogel @yoavgo Way to go!!

2022-06-08 15:19:03 @braneloop @_joaogui1 @ykilcher Sorry it took so long.

2022-06-08 15:10:11 RT @Abebab: this paper is gold! "computer vision datasets authors value efficiency at the expense of care

2022-06-08 15:06:54 RT @adrian_weller: Join us on Tues 14 for a discussion on Large Language Models with ⁦@mmitchell_ai⁩ ⁦and @YJernite⁩ from ⁦@huggingface⁩, a…

2022-06-07 22:44:08 @_joaogui1 @ykilcher Update: The model is now fully blocked.

2022-06-07 22:43:30 @nsaphra @_joaogui1 @jeremyphoward @timnitGebru This.

2022-06-07 21:59:23 @sergeivolodinch @_joaogui1 @ClementDelangue Forthcoming. =)

2022-06-07 19:01:50 @_joaogui1 @ClementDelangue To be clear, I don't think it's enough

2022-06-07 17:54:41 @_joaogui1 @ClementDelangue Yah, the time zone difference was working against this. I would have removed the model until it minimally could be gated

2022-06-07 01:06:06 @DrLaurenOR @KathrynECramer @thinker_mann @huggingface I completely agree. AFAIK, this is part of the roadmap to add as soon as possible, now even more so.

2022-06-06 17:10:08 @_joaogui1 @drjwrae @huggingface Ooh thank you. I probably won't watch but take your word for it.I've made the mistake of watching something from this person before, and it was a horribly hateful headspace to experience, notably towards women.

2022-06-06 17:07:17 A pillar of "Responsible" AI is including mechanisms for everyone affected to provide direct input &

2022-06-06 16:55:15 @KathrynECramer @DrLaurenOR @thinker_mann Someone has to start one. =)

2022-06-06 16:54:35 @_joaogui1 @huggingface Can you put that same question up on the community forum?This whole discussion is useful IMO. https://t.co/9fjgoqrBxf

2022-06-06 16:52:54 @drjwrae @_joaogui1 @huggingface Seriously? Can you link me to this?

2022-06-05 19:34:04 Not as diverse as we want to be, but we're almost at 40% people who use she/her pronouns -- this is unheard of in tech.

2022-06-05 19:31:19 <

2022-06-05 19:18:15 @hardmaru Oh wow, this one is terrifying and amazing

2022-06-05 17:59:00 RT @amyngyn: i am saving this one for many future uses https://t.co/N1Kz4l2Oi0

2022-06-05 16:49:33 RT @SashaMTL: Super insightful thread on access and accessibility of LLMs by the amazing @BlancheMinerva .. Highly recommend reading it!

2022-06-05 16:40:19 @ykilcher @DrLaurenOR You can object all you want dude. It doesn't change what you're doing. Latter point is really interesting, thanks for that!

2022-06-04 06:59:04 @DrLaurenOR @thinker_mann Yeah. Decided to turn off the inference widget/not host interactively and are working on gated access. Please post thoughts here: https://t.co/9fjgoqa0FH, also recently opened up for community discussion.

2022-06-02 06:43:56 @andrewthesmart @ruchowdh Iowa.

2022-06-02 06:43:04 NLP &

2022-06-01 22:46:28 @alexhanna @huggingface Totally not enough cheese tho!!!...We fail at bringing healthy stuff apparently. =/

2022-06-01 21:39:38 @alexhanna @huggingface We need to bring you more stuff!! That wasn't nearly enough!

2022-06-01 21:39:04 RT @timnitGebru: "He said the lack of medicine and medical supplies, as well as a lack of fuel, had prompted the suspension.“Now there is…

2022-06-01 21:32:51 @cajundiscordian @Google @timnitGebru Tbh it's much happier on the outside!

2022-06-01 21:32:01 @alexhanna @huggingface

2022-06-01 02:18:12 @sarahookr I highly recommend The Great Pottery Throw Down.

2022-06-01 02:17:16 @sarahookr If you're interested switching off your mind, I guess Severance is the most apt!

2022-06-01 02:15:15 RT @rctatman: But that's not evidence of *meaning*. It's human interpretation (the author's and then our own) that's assigning these catego…

2022-06-01 02:12:55 Yay for @rctatman breaking down the recent "secret language" of DALLE-2!!This thread is nice. https://t.co/t6F7HalH8S

2022-06-01 01:50:33 @alexhanna Oh no! Want me to bring you anything? I'm here!

2022-06-01 01:48:26 Note that "secret language" isn't what's happening, but the results are fun.

2022-06-01 01:25:33 This is fun research. https://t.co/ro9fEhZxSq

2022-06-01 01:15:47 @hardmaru The one on the left is *clearly* not programming, but examining tensorboard.

2022-06-01 00:53:38 @LeonDerczynski This is odd to me...I'm not first author in papers I've led / papers whose ideas were mine...I err on the side of letting the young'uns be first author...

2022-05-31 20:22:41 @luke_stark @Sharronapearl @wewatchwatchers @random_walker @sunhahong @ruha9 @lnakamur @whkchun @timnitGebru @jovialjoy @safiyanoble @rajiinio @Abebab @o_guest This is so nice of you! Thank you for recognizing!!

2022-05-31 20:14:19 RT @luke_stark: Pleased to say the offical version of @jevanhutson and I's "Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence" is now available in @Ford…

2022-05-31 11:56:34 RT @rajiinio: @AmandaAskell I empathize with this, honestly. I think the problem some have is when the triaging decided upon by one group i…

2022-05-31 07:58:26 Another thing I learned from @timnitGebru: keep track of accomplishments of your marginalized colleagues

2022-05-31 06:37:28 @random_walker @andrewthesmart Hahaha I love this.

2022-05-31 06:37:16 RT @random_walker: I mis-clicked on one of my 150 open tabs and it happened to be a tab that's been open since 2019 with a paper that has a…

2022-05-30 13:27:43 @deliprao Cool find!!

2022-05-28 15:52:41 RT @join_ada: We proudly present the lineup of this year’s #MoralsMachines conference on May 30th. Together with these leading experts,…

2022-05-27 18:26:40 RT @random_walker: As a computer scientist who's long felt that many philosophers writing about superintelligence are doing harm by ampli…

2022-05-27 16:54:23 @triciapersisted @GiadaPistilli "wandering around in fantasyland while the earth burns" -- I like that way of putting it, thank you!

2022-05-27 16:53:48 Entire is good to read if you care about the current state of Ethical AI discussions. @GiadaPistilli is one of the very, very few actual "AI Ethicists" that exist. She explains an infuriating, fundamental problem. I am so thankful to be able to work with her &

2022-05-27 16:39:24 RT @GiadaPistilli: Because in the meantime, AI systems exist, are pervasive, and pose countless ethical and social justice questions. Philo…

2022-05-27 16:38:33 I am so thankful to have @GiadaPistilli as our chief ethicist @huggingface . She is a beacon of clarity and grounding about what matters in modern "AI". https://t.co/chuwu4XIrk

2022-05-27 16:12:01 @debora_nozza @versae @BigscienceW @federicobianchy @dirk_hovy @debora_nozza , do you have a link to a paper or larger view of the poster? What you're thinking about I think is very relevant to my interns right now, and our discussions around automatic evaluation of biases. @mkgerchick

2022-05-27 16:08:58 RT @tracyfrey: The founding of this country is inseparable from racism. Every system America built contains that history. Generational weal…

2022-05-27 16:08:46 RT @BigscienceW: It's a wrap! Thank you to all speakers, authors, organizers, volunteers and to ~100 people who joined us online and in Dub…

2022-05-27 13:10:06 RT @sreekotay: Systemic problems require constant pressure. It doesn't just "get better"https://t.co/DFdkmOQ0Af

2022-05-27 13:01:46 @LChoshen @mgalle @suzatweet @Thom_Wolf Yikes!!!!

2022-05-27 13:00:54 @debora_nozza @versae @BigscienceW @federicobianchy @dirk_hovy We are indeed working on something like this!!

2022-05-26 19:11:29 Come join to see this and more!Starts tomorrow morning GMT!https://t.co/LvJ93P1LM7

2022-05-26 19:04:04 Loved the points here by @weidingerlaura about the relationship between PR and formal protocols

2022-05-26 19:02:05 How can you improve or support accountability in ML/AI?

2022-05-26 18:50:55 I loved the point from @ZeerakTalat that one of the keys is to decenter ourselves as designers/creators. Once we do this, determining *who this technology is for, and why* becomes paramount

2022-05-26 18:49:26 What are specific supopulations to consider for LLMs and the tasks they can be used for? How do we define these subpopulations?

2022-05-26 18:48:31 @BigscienceW @emilymbender @weidingerlaura @ZeerakTalat One point I loved here was this well-put insight from @emilymbender : "You can't debias history"

2022-05-26 18:47:39 @BigscienceW @emilymbender @weidingerlaura @ZeerakTalat What are foreseeable risks -- and benefits -- of LLMs, particularly with what we've seen and learned over the past year.

2022-05-26 18:44:41 The @BigscienceW #acl2022nlp workshop is tomorrow, and includes a panel on Ethical &

2022-05-26 18:33:59 RT @timnitGebru: "Disrespectful and abusive workplaces have been a hallmark of the tech industry for decades."Understatement.

2022-05-26 15:21:04 @tallinzen Woo!!

2022-05-26 15:15:48 @ABDNCompSci Thank you!!

2022-05-26 15:10:51 @rctatman @Rasa_HQ

2022-05-26 15:09:48 @ptullochott Wow, thank you! I'm grateful to know you.

2022-05-26 15:02:06 RT @emilymbender: Discourses around "teaching machines to be ethical" are frankly just a distraction, and one grounded in fantastical ideas…

2022-05-26 15:02:00 RT @emilymbender: 5. And finally, task/tech fit: systems that are designed for their use case, evaluated in situ, including for whether the…

2022-05-25 20:59:11 Fuck Baidu!Hehe. So good.

2022-05-25 20:55:06 At MSR, there was 1 person who was nice to me about winning this competition. Jacob Devlin (yes, BERT guy) made me this award. I cherish it. It goes next to my PhD diploma on my office wall. <

2022-05-25 20:31:43 Would not have been possible without @JesseDodge https://t.co/FESDqe30ef

2022-05-25 20:29:59 @nazneenrajani You're being waaay too nice. Thank you.

2022-05-25 20:28:50 ...things that matter.

2022-05-25 20:28:36 Unreal kindness towards me...1 of many reasons I came to love @timnitGebru was that she saw value in me where almost no one had

2022-05-25 20:22:30 @timnitGebru Oh my god, thank you!!

2022-05-25 20:21:34 RT @timnitGebru: Meg is, as far as I know, the first woman to win a computer vision challenge, or a deep learning competition. In addition,…

2022-05-25 20:21:26 RT @timnitGebru: Her model was tied with that of Oriol Vinyals but if one reads the press from 2015, her name is nowhere to be found: the t…

2022-05-25 18:21:40 YAY!Thank you to @JesseDodge for being such an advocate for my work, and to our co-authors: Amit Goyal, @kotymg, @karlstratos, Xufeng Han, Alyssa Mensch, Alex Berg, Tamara Berg, @haldaume3!!Here's the little speech, featuring a cameo from my doggo! https://t.co/8YmjjcHNN7 https://t.co/SaxVgAyPSK

2022-05-25 18:14:50 @timnitGebru

2022-05-25 18:14:21 @emilymbender Thank you!! <

2022-05-25 18:14:10 RT @emilymbender: Brilliant remarks from @mmitchell_ai on accepting ToT award: work on problems that matter to people, not just tasks we ha…

2022-05-25 15:39:47 @mrm8488 @adinamwilliams @MetaAI @huggingface @DynabenchAI Love this!

2022-05-24 18:00:07 RT @mark_riedl: Here is a great place to get up to speed on 45 years of AI research on story generation:https://t.co/iJFoDhS24D

2022-05-24 17:59:39 RT @Abebab: Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK's privacy watchdog for collecting the facial images of people in Britain…

2022-05-24 17:58:43 RT @rachelmetz: As a journalist, you never know where an important story will come from, or where it will lead. This one started as a conve…

2022-05-24 15:55:06 RT @nazneenrajani: Here's a v0 Datasets explorer: https://t.co/5dc37cXHho The embeddings use datasets' descriptions &

2022-05-24 15:54:21 @nazneenrajani YES

2022-05-24 15:54:12 RT @nazneenrajani: The standard benchmarks appear as almost centroids of the cluster. For example, see this image Surprising or expected?…

2022-05-20 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX

2022-10-29 02:46:11 @mark_riedl These are incredible.

2022-10-29 02:44:38 @emilymbender @JakeAziz1 I did Old English!

2022-10-29 02:43:39 RT @ShannonVallor: I may not use this site for much longer (follow me on Mastodon) but I wanted to share some thoughts about my deep gratit…

2022-10-29 01:48:50 @andrewthesmart 2 cool+ 2 be =4 gotten

2022-10-29 01:43:14 RT @iFrankFagan: Khan &

2022-10-29 01:25:31 RT @olapiktus: The ability to search through training corpora with #nocode is necessary to build a shared understanding of common pitfalls…

2022-10-29 00:57:25 RT @robyncaplan: I just feel like I'm already too old to play the "this new social network will surely solve the problems of the old social…

2022-10-28 16:58:56 RT @natfriedman: AI-generated ads targeting micro affinity groups, down to a single person, are going to be a very big deal. Didn't expect…

2022-10-28 16:57:56 RT @tegan_maharaj: I mostly avoid statements thatcould be inflammatory, but I care deeply about the longterm future and am sick of seeing m…

2022-10-28 16:57:00 Useful thread on compensatiom for those of you thinking abt joining tech startups. https://t.co/QAZagwx5g3

2022-10-28 16:53:28 RT @bentarnoff: I'm firmly in the anti-technofeudalism camp, but the thesis has a grain of truth to it, in that Google, Facebook, and Amazo…

2022-10-28 16:37:53 @SashaMTL I mean, if YOUR job was to make pasta, why wouldn't you also make it scrabble?!

2022-10-28 16:34:24 @SashaMTL Are all letters actually equal probability tho?

2022-10-28 16:33:54 @olapiktus p.s. If you see your own data, and want it removed, let one of us know. @huggingface is also beginning to roll out tools for contestation/removal requests, more later.

2022-10-28 16:32:57 Have you ever thought, "OK so there's a lot of data behind these large language models, what does that data actually look like?"HERE YOU GO! Full explorer for the entire corpus behind the BigScience BLOOM LLM!I AM SO GLAD THIS EXISTS!Yay for @olapiktus!!! https://t.co/F1gGJLhoTA

2022-10-28 16:28:16 @DrAlexVoss @baxterkb @ChloeAutio @VogelMiriam @nazneenrajani @BNonnecke @CummingsRenee @navrinasingh @latonero @mark_riedl @ElhamTabassi @ElamiteGG @amcrisan @AnimaAnandkumar @bobirakova Orly? That seems like too much work for social media, ha.Here's what I see when I'm logged in. https://t.co/7cV6fzcoY7

2022-10-28 15:59:32 @alexhanna @jw_lockhart

2022-10-28 15:58:48 RT @blockpartyapp_: We're seeing reports that a slice of Twitter may be intentionally testing boundaries on what types of speech will be al…

2022-10-28 15:54:58 @beausievers Isn't this a brain-reward thing? Something something dopamine?

2022-10-28 15:53:13 @beausievers @yeetgenstein <

2022-10-28 15:52:17 @beausievers @yeetgenstein I have a hard "don't tweet before coffee" rule and it significantly ups my cheery-twitter game.

2022-10-28 15:51:04 RT @ncri_io: Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify…

2022-10-28 15:38:59 @Melissahei @ruchowdh @atg_abhishek Appreciate this.

2022-10-28 15:38:07 I'm in the news today! Talking about depressing reality of ethical AI work, along w some great people who share insights on realities of responsible/ethical AI @ruchowdh@atg_abhishek @goffi_emmanuel. Thanks to @Melissahei for the care and reporting. https://t.co/RM1Omtwkfk https://t.co/0531MEshsg

2022-10-28 03:33:43 RT @CredoAI: "If you have diversity without inclusion, that means people don't feel welcome to say their thoughts at the table

2022-10-28 03:33:26 @sullyj3 Haha, yeah I definitely do that one.

2022-10-28 03:32:50 I'm constantly amazed by how quickly @nazneenrajani produces useful tools and fascinating results. https://t.co/GDENTczmYi

2022-10-24 02:14:52 RT @mark_riedl: Proceeds will be donated to the ACLUhttps://t.co/5LybWihx0r

2022-10-23 20:00:08 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl And YES I WANT ONE!!

2022-10-23 07:20:20 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl Hehehehehehhehehehehehee

2022-10-22 20:49:02 @SashaMTL (Related convo) student: I know several women at Google who've had to get lawyers because of what G was doing to them.Me: Yep?Student: So is that just a normal thing when you work in industry? Women have to have lawyers? It seems so weird and stressful.

2022-10-22 20:41:37 Partner: In the past 5 years, you, my sister, several of our female friends have had to get lawyers to fight unfair labor practices against them by their employer.Me: Yep?Partner: No men we know have had to do that. 0.Me: Yep?Partner: It's like there's a pattern or something.

2022-10-22 20:27:02 @LeonDerczynski And holy moly am I grateful.

2022-10-22 20:25:53 @osanseviero Hehe love that.

2022-10-22 20:25:09 @morganklauss Attractive cat girl!

2022-10-22 20:21:59 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-21 22:45:19 Thankful to @rachelmetz for this article. https://t.co/kyZWd0K3r6

2022-10-21 22:43:14 RT @rachelmetz: i spent the last month diving into the world of art and datasets, talking to artists whose work is included in the dataset…

2022-10-21 22:12:13 RT @ClementDelangue: I'll be there tonight in San Francisco! Organized by @natolambert @MadisenXTaylor &

2022-10-21 21:35:00 @DarceyNLP @davidweichiang Neat!!

2022-10-21 21:34:53 RT @DarceyNLP: Excited to share that @davidweichiang and my paper, "A Continuum of Generation Tasks for Investigating Length Bias and Degen…

2022-10-21 21:32:32 Had suchhh a good time at the Africa ↔ US Frontiers Symposium.This picture is kind of hilarious, can you find me? I'm the one who is dying from the sun.Thanks @yunyao_li for the invitation! https://t.co/eLSiCNmDWO

2022-10-21 21:28:06 @cherthedev WOW, nice!!!

2022-10-21 21:06:33 @sethlazar Middle-aged elf! Hahaha.

2022-10-21 21:01:16 @beausievers You can FIND YOURSELF IN LATENT SPACE.

2022-10-21 21:00:54 @beausievers Have you tried the thing where you take the description and put it back through SD? Too fun.

2022-10-21 20:50:30 @beausievers Link? Is this the clip interrogator one?

2022-10-21 20:48:15 @jmdembe @venikunche Constantly *try* to have coding time.

2022-10-21 20:47:03 RT @deliprao: You can’t fake values. I bet they don’t have a list of written down “values” or “tenets” that they read out to people at empl…

2022-10-21 20:46:56 RT @deliprao: The amazing thing about @huggingface is the employees who work there. I can hop on their channels and ask questions not even…

2022-10-21 18:23:47 @rctatman Me and my darling Wendell who I miss so much. https://t.co/3yZDimZqXN

2022-10-21 18:16:16 @rctatman So occasionally I'd be sitting in a meeting, and suddenly I'd hear a door SLAM SHUT and eventually would have to go rescue Wendell from the room he'd inevitably trapped himself in.

2022-10-21 18:15:29 @rctatman One of many things I loved about my old Great Dane Wendell was that he figured out how to open doors that were slightly ajar by slamming them open with his paw -- but couldn't tell the difference between a door that would OPEN if he slammed vs one that would SHUT. ... 1/

2022-10-21 18:10:17 @jmeowmeow Thank you! Happy to hear P-town cares.

2022-10-21 18:09:29 But as someone who has specialized in operationalizing ethics within tech companies, I (and maybe I alone) can see what a fundamentally different approach to tech development this is, and I couldn't feel happier or more grateful to play a part in it. /end

2022-10-21 18:07:51 In the world of tech, all of these things are likely just a minor blip not deserving too much attention.In the world of ethics, it's likely none of this will be recognized at all -- tech companies rarely (if ever?) get props for ethics-based operations (for good reason). 7/

2022-10-30 00:07:39 RT @geomblog: Between the Meta crash, the #twitterMigration, and the zeitgeist around social media, I feel a real moment of opportunity for…

2022-10-29 17:53:25 RT @cfiesler: Two years ago we published a paper about online community migration, and I think the findings and recommendations are relevan…

2022-10-29 17:52:27 RT @abrahampiper: The first documented instance of the kind of “like” that kids — and especially girls — are blamed and ridiculed for…is fr…

2022-10-29 02:46:11 @mark_riedl These are incredible.

2022-10-29 02:44:38 @emilymbender @JakeAziz1 I did Old English!

2022-10-29 02:43:39 RT @ShannonVallor: I may not use this site for much longer (follow me on Mastodon) but I wanted to share some thoughts about my deep gratit…

2022-10-29 01:48:50 @andrewthesmart 2 cool+ 2 be =4 gotten

2022-10-29 01:43:14 RT @iFrankFagan: Khan &

2022-10-29 01:25:31 RT @olapiktus: The ability to search through training corpora with #nocode is necessary to build a shared understanding of common pitfalls…

2022-10-29 00:57:25 RT @robyncaplan: I just feel like I'm already too old to play the "this new social network will surely solve the problems of the old social…

2022-10-28 16:58:56 RT @natfriedman: AI-generated ads targeting micro affinity groups, down to a single person, are going to be a very big deal. Didn't expect…

2022-10-28 16:57:56 RT @tegan_maharaj: I mostly avoid statements thatcould be inflammatory, but I care deeply about the longterm future and am sick of seeing m…

2022-10-28 16:57:00 Useful thread on compensatiom for those of you thinking abt joining tech startups. https://t.co/QAZagwx5g3

2022-10-28 16:53:28 RT @bentarnoff: I'm firmly in the anti-technofeudalism camp, but the thesis has a grain of truth to it, in that Google, Facebook, and Amazo…

2022-10-28 16:37:53 @SashaMTL I mean, if YOUR job was to make pasta, why wouldn't you also make it scrabble?!

2022-10-28 16:34:24 @SashaMTL Are all letters actually equal probability tho?

2022-10-28 16:33:54 @olapiktus p.s. If you see your own data, and want it removed, let one of us know. @huggingface is also beginning to roll out tools for contestation/removal requests, more later.

2022-10-28 16:32:57 Have you ever thought, "OK so there's a lot of data behind these large language models, what does that data actually look like?"HERE YOU GO! Full explorer for the entire corpus behind the BigScience BLOOM LLM!I AM SO GLAD THIS EXISTS!Yay for @olapiktus!!! https://t.co/F1gGJLhoTA

2022-10-28 16:28:16 @DrAlexVoss @baxterkb @ChloeAutio @VogelMiriam @nazneenrajani @BNonnecke @CummingsRenee @navrinasingh @latonero @mark_riedl @ElhamTabassi @ElamiteGG @amcrisan @AnimaAnandkumar @bobirakova Orly? That seems like too much work for social media, ha.Here's what I see when I'm logged in. https://t.co/7cV6fzcoY7

2022-10-28 15:59:32 @alexhanna @jw_lockhart

2022-10-28 15:58:48 RT @blockpartyapp_: We're seeing reports that a slice of Twitter may be intentionally testing boundaries on what types of speech will be al…

2022-10-28 15:54:58 @beausievers Isn't this a brain-reward thing? Something something dopamine?

2022-10-28 15:53:13 @beausievers @yeetgenstein <

2022-10-28 15:52:17 @beausievers @yeetgenstein I have a hard "don't tweet before coffee" rule and it significantly ups my cheery-twitter game.

2022-10-28 15:51:04 RT @ncri_io: Evidence suggests that bad actors are trying to test the limits on @Twitter. Several posts on 4chan encourage users to amplify…

2022-10-28 15:38:59 @Melissahei @ruchowdh @atg_abhishek Appreciate this.

2022-10-28 15:38:07 I'm in the news today! Talking about depressing reality of ethical AI work, along w some great people who share insights on realities of responsible/ethical AI @ruchowdh@atg_abhishek @goffi_emmanuel. Thanks to @Melissahei for the care and reporting. https://t.co/RM1Omtwkfk https://t.co/0531MEshsg

2022-10-28 03:33:43 RT @CredoAI: "If you have diversity without inclusion, that means people don't feel welcome to say their thoughts at the table

2022-10-28 03:33:26 @sullyj3 Haha, yeah I definitely do that one.

2022-10-28 03:32:50 I'm constantly amazed by how quickly @nazneenrajani produces useful tools and fascinating results. https://t.co/GDENTczmYi

2022-10-24 02:14:52 RT @mark_riedl: Proceeds will be donated to the ACLUhttps://t.co/5LybWihx0r

2022-10-23 20:00:08 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl And YES I WANT ONE!!

2022-10-23 07:20:20 @SashaMTL @mark_riedl Hehehehehehhehehehehehee

2022-10-22 20:49:02 @SashaMTL (Related convo) student: I know several women at Google who've had to get lawyers because of what G was doing to them.Me: Yep?Student: So is that just a normal thing when you work in industry? Women have to have lawyers? It seems so weird and stressful.

2022-10-22 20:41:37 Partner: In the past 5 years, you, my sister, several of our female friends have had to get lawyers to fight unfair labor practices against them by their employer.Me: Yep?Partner: No men we know have had to do that. 0.Me: Yep?Partner: It's like there's a pattern or something.

2022-10-22 20:27:02 @LeonDerczynski And holy moly am I grateful.

2022-10-22 20:25:53 @osanseviero Hehe love that.

2022-10-22 20:25:09 @morganklauss Attractive cat girl!

2022-10-22 20:21:59 RT @MiaD: Here are 18 books that will radically change the way you think about AI, algorithms, and technologyBuy one for yourself and gi…

2022-10-21 22:45:19 Thankful to @rachelmetz for this article. https://t.co/kyZWd0K3r6

2022-10-21 22:43:14 RT @rachelmetz: i spent the last month diving into the world of art and datasets, talking to artists whose work is included in the dataset…

2022-10-21 22:12:13 RT @ClementDelangue: I'll be there tonight in San Francisco! Organized by @natolambert @MadisenXTaylor &

2022-10-21 21:35:00 @DarceyNLP @davidweichiang Neat!!

2022-10-21 21:34:53 RT @DarceyNLP: Excited to share that @davidweichiang and my paper, "A Continuum of Generation Tasks for Investigating Length Bias and Degen…

2022-10-21 21:32:32 Had suchhh a good time at the Africa ↔ US Frontiers Symposium.This picture is kind of hilarious, can you find me? I'm the one who is dying from the sun.Thanks @yunyao_li for the invitation! https://t.co/eLSiCNmDWO

2022-10-21 21:28:06 @cherthedev WOW, nice!!!

2022-10-21 21:06:33 @sethlazar Middle-aged elf! Hahaha.

2022-10-21 21:01:16 @beausievers You can FIND YOURSELF IN LATENT SPACE.

2022-10-21 21:00:54 @beausievers Have you tried the thing where you take the description and put it back through SD? Too fun.

2022-10-21 20:50:30 @beausievers Link? Is this the clip interrogator one?

2022-10-21 20:48:15 @jmdembe @venikunche Constantly *try* to have coding time.

2022-10-21 20:47:03 RT @deliprao: You can’t fake values. I bet they don’t have a list of written down “values” or “tenets” that they read out to people at empl…

2022-10-21 20:46:56 RT @deliprao: The amazing thing about @huggingface is the employees who work there. I can hop on their channels and ask questions not even…

2022-10-21 18:23:47 @rctatman Me and my darling Wendell who I miss so much. https://t.co/3yZDimZqXN

2022-10-21 18:16:16 @rctatman So occasionally I'd be sitting in a meeting, and suddenly I'd hear a door SLAM SHUT and eventually would have to go rescue Wendell from the room he'd inevitably trapped himself in.

2022-10-21 18:15:29 @rctatman One of many things I loved about my old Great Dane Wendell was that he figured out how to open doors that were slightly ajar by slamming them open with his paw -- but couldn't tell the difference between a door that would OPEN if he slammed vs one that would SHUT. ... 1/

2022-10-21 18:10:17 @jmeowmeow Thank you! Happy to hear P-town cares.

2022-10-21 18:09:29 But as someone who has specialized in operationalizing ethics within tech companies, I (and maybe I alone) can see what a fundamentally different approach to tech development this is, and I couldn't feel happier or more grateful to play a part in it. /end

2022-10-21 18:07:51 In the world of tech, all of these things are likely just a minor blip not deserving too much attention.In the world of ethics, it's likely none of this will be recognized at all -- tech companies rarely (if ever?) get props for ethics-based operations (for good reason). 7/

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-23 17:50:24 Happening now! With @emilymbender and @alexhanna https://t.co/vRBiDjxTqM

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-26 00:08:01 @SashaMTL =D thanks!

2022-11-25 18:55:11 @j2bryson @timnitGebru @louis_faucon @sergia_ch @ruthstarkman @emilymbender @kiraIeigh @alexhanna @LilithByTheSea @AmandaAskell @le_science4all I think Blaise's writing has also shown he's making a lot of the fundamental problems worse. It doesn't matter if I think that, tho (to @sergia_ch 's original point). He's a Google VP.

2022-11-23 17:50:24 Happening now! With @emilymbender and @alexhanna https://t.co/vRBiDjxTqM

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-28 20:24:33 RT @krvarshney: Going on now: @NeurIPSConf Expo talk "Uncertainty quantification for fair and transparent AI-assisted decision-making" by @…

2022-11-28 18:25:23 RT @andrewthesmart: @elonmusk No pretty sure it’s just you

2022-11-28 17:49:16 RT @SashaMTL: If anyone sees sponsors giving out socks at Neurips, HMU! It's what I'm here for

2022-11-28 08:38:53 RT @JessicaHullman: Call for papers for the 2023 ACM @FAccTConference is now live! https://t.co/cW3o1WFUb8 Abstracts due Jan 30, Papers due…

2022-11-28 04:39:50 RT @WiMLworkshop: #WiML #WiMLworkshop #NeurIPS2022 @NeurIPSConf https://t.co/JjgM4gqupE

2022-11-27 21:40:19 Yuup. That's how it is. Seattle hasn't quite figured out infrastructure that intersects with water. We need to learn more from the Dutch. https://t.co/A0wZAek0OP

2022-11-27 21:33:23 @rodolfor @jjvincent @thetimes @whippletom +1

2022-11-27 21:32:39 RT @jjvincent: and, sorry, as we're approaching christmas I should be plugging as diligently as a shipwreck survivor in a leaky lifeboat. s…

2022-11-27 21:32:23 RT @jjvincent: It's one thing to have a story scooped — quite another an entire book. When I sold Beyond Measure I did not know that the ma…

2022-11-27 21:31:48 RT @whippletom: 4 yrs ago, I worked for months on a proposal to write a book on the history of measurement. Then, just before submitting, I…

2022-11-27 21:26:33 RT @jjvincent: very very pleased to say that Beyond Measure has been selected as @thetimes's science book of the year!! a "riveting scienti…

2022-11-27 21:25:56 @jjvincent I just got called a weasel too! Power to the people who have received completely inappropriate accusations of Weaselness. https://t.co/BD66xntBed

2022-11-27 21:23:07 @jjvincent @thetimes @whippletom It's truly fantastic James. I couldn't put it down. And now--having visited many friends and family this past week--they all know about the intricacies of Good measure and how thinking about temperature precision can blow your mind.

2022-11-27 21:19:39 @SkyLi0n @andrew_sears @Gradio Oh great point! @YJernite we should add this to our Safety TODO list.

2022-11-26 00:08:01 @SashaMTL =D thanks!

2022-11-25 18:55:11 @j2bryson @timnitGebru @louis_faucon @sergia_ch @ruthstarkman @emilymbender @kiraIeigh @alexhanna @LilithByTheSea @AmandaAskell @le_science4all I think Blaise's writing has also shown he's making a lot of the fundamental problems worse. It doesn't matter if I think that, tho (to @sergia_ch 's original point). He's a Google VP.

2022-11-23 17:50:24 Happening now! With @emilymbender and @alexhanna https://t.co/vRBiDjxTqM

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-11-29 04:36:18 RT @WiMLworkshop: Shout-out to these wonderful organizers, who put many months of dedicated work into realizing this year’s workshop! #WiML…

2022-11-29 04:24:55 RT @mathemakitten: show me an ml research team which is not tracking experiment results on a google spreadsheet despite all their fancy int…

2022-11-29 01:38:56 RT @rachelmetz: interesting theory

2022-11-29 01:36:11 RT @le_science4all: @j2bryson @louis_faucon @sergia_ch @yann @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @ruthstarkman @emilymbender @kiraIeigh @alexhanna @…

2022-11-28 20:24:33 RT @krvarshney: Going on now: @NeurIPSConf Expo talk "Uncertainty quantification for fair and transparent AI-assisted decision-making" by @…

2022-11-28 18:25:23 RT @andrewthesmart: @elonmusk No pretty sure it’s just you

2022-11-28 17:49:16 RT @SashaMTL: If anyone sees sponsors giving out socks at Neurips, HMU! It's what I'm here for

2022-11-28 08:38:53 RT @JessicaHullman: Call for papers for the 2023 ACM @FAccTConference is now live! https://t.co/cW3o1WFUb8 Abstracts due Jan 30, Papers due…

2022-11-28 04:39:50 RT @WiMLworkshop: #WiML #WiMLworkshop #NeurIPS2022 @NeurIPSConf https://t.co/JjgM4gqupE

2022-11-27 21:40:19 Yuup. That's how it is. Seattle hasn't quite figured out infrastructure that intersects with water. We need to learn more from the Dutch. https://t.co/A0wZAek0OP

2022-11-27 21:33:23 @rodolfor @jjvincent @thetimes @whippletom +1

2022-11-27 21:32:39 RT @jjvincent: and, sorry, as we're approaching christmas I should be plugging as diligently as a shipwreck survivor in a leaky lifeboat. s…

2022-11-27 21:32:23 RT @jjvincent: It's one thing to have a story scooped — quite another an entire book. When I sold Beyond Measure I did not know that the ma…

2022-11-27 21:31:48 RT @whippletom: 4 yrs ago, I worked for months on a proposal to write a book on the history of measurement. Then, just before submitting, I…

2022-11-27 21:26:33 RT @jjvincent: very very pleased to say that Beyond Measure has been selected as @thetimes's science book of the year!! a "riveting scienti…

2022-11-27 21:25:56 @jjvincent I just got called a weasel too! Power to the people who have received completely inappropriate accusations of Weaselness. https://t.co/BD66xntBed

2022-11-27 21:23:07 @jjvincent @thetimes @whippletom It's truly fantastic James. I couldn't put it down. And now--having visited many friends and family this past week--they all know about the intricacies of Good measure and how thinking about temperature precision can blow your mind.

2022-11-27 21:19:39 @SkyLi0n @andrew_sears @Gradio Oh great point! @YJernite we should add this to our Safety TODO list.

2022-11-26 00:08:01 @SashaMTL =D thanks!

2022-11-25 18:55:11 @j2bryson @timnitGebru @louis_faucon @sergia_ch @ruthstarkman @emilymbender @kiraIeigh @alexhanna @LilithByTheSea @AmandaAskell @le_science4all I think Blaise's writing has also shown he's making a lot of the fundamental problems worse. It doesn't matter if I think that, tho (to @sergia_ch 's original point). He's a Google VP.

2022-11-23 17:50:24 Happening now! With @emilymbender and @alexhanna https://t.co/vRBiDjxTqM

2022-11-22 04:02:55 RT @xuanalogue: Some queer joy and defiance, in the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting and Trans Day of Remembrance: I am a trans lesbi…

2022-11-22 04:01:44 RT @SashaMTL: Nvidia reports 2,7 MILLION tonnes of Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions in 2022. These are mostly due to manufacturing their GP…

2022-11-22 03:59:57 RT @Abebab: How to avoid/displace accountability and responsibility for LLMs bingo https://t.co/Ql6NYSceRa

2022-11-22 03:56:26 RT @MasakhaneNLP: Currently sourcing funds for Maskhane members who haven't been able to receive travel grants to @NeurIPSConf! They did…

2022-11-22 03:56:09 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Twitter is down to 2,700 employees from 3,700 earlier this month. Not all the sales staff have been deactivated so th…

2022-11-21 20:55:54 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Toots! I'm meg@dair-community.social (I think!)

2022-11-21 20:06:37 @SashaMTL @alexhanna <

2022-11-21 20:06:30 RT @SashaMTL: @alexhanna Who says LLMs were meant to help people? They're just meant to predict the next word right?

2022-11-21 18:54:29 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh Can we have this discussion on Mastodon by any chance? =D

2022-11-21 18:52:33 After now spending some time on https://t.co/4keANVHLbz and https://t.co/OfTT5YVCGL, the latter DAIR feed is way way way more interesting, without curation. Thanks to @dylnbkr for setting up and @timnitGebru for creating the DAIR space. Follow me meg@dair-community.social.

2022-11-21 18:48:02 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh @ylecun I really love the idea, but we'd first have to establish that people who come to learn from the debate would indeed learn, or change their views. We don't have strong evidence that this is possible.

2022-11-21 18:46:34 @sergia_ch @vlanx0 @le_science4all @timnitGebru @LilithByTheSea @kiraIeigh That's a wonderful idea if we're dealing with people who can be informed by evidence that's different than their own views. But in practice, people in power within tech who don't see Galactica as problematic won't come to see it as problematic. No amount of evidence matters.

2022-11-21 18:32:44 RT @le_science4all: Machine learning should arguably be urgently regarded as a voting algorithm, which amplifies the most expressed views.…

2022-11-21 02:52:31 RT @baxterkb: Done w/ Twitter? Before you go: 1) Archive tweets, then bulk delete along w/ DMs (use #Semiphemeral) 2) Export your follows/l…

2022-11-21 00:09:17 RT @eaton: So, here’s the interesting bit. That diagram is not what you get out of a code review. It’s what you get out of an *architectura…

2022-11-21 00:08:41 RT @SashaMTL: Number 5683 of Things That Make Me Want To Lose My Shit...

2022-11-21 00:06:57 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to the coming episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @alexhanna On deck: #Galatica of course, plus…

2022-11-20 22:43:41 RT @Abebab: 96% of the total deepfake videos found online is non-consensual deepfake pornography

2022-11-20 22:30:25 RT @osanseviero: Some thoughts about the recent release of Galactica by @MetaAI (everything here is my personal opinion) Let's start w…

2022-11-19 02:09:11 ......... https://t.co/M2d86E9cRI

2022-11-19 02:06:18 RT @mrgreene1977: Meta's AI boss acts like people like me are out here trying to break their toys because we're mean. I assure you, @ylecun…

2022-11-18 22:12:46 RT @baxterkb: Bad actors are always looking for opportunities to hack systems for valuable data to exploit &

2022-11-18 22:12:32 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at…

2022-11-18 19:24:54 So proud of @NimaBoscarino for this great work. Also with an editorial! https://t.co/cH7NI17cP8 https://t.co/W0Bvtt3aBe

2022-11-18 19:09:58 @adjiboussodieng Current incentive structures reward sociopaths with money. It's not the right system.

2022-11-18 19:09:00 RT @tunguz: Google seems like a pretty simple app. It’s just a text input box with a bunch of web links as an output. Does it really need m…

2022-11-18 19:07:14 RT @shortforcori: @AMTraderX @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab Science is fragile, because it exists in wider context with those who manipulate s…

2022-11-18 19:06:55 RT @rasbt: @manes @GaryMarcus @ylecun @Abebab I’ve been a moderator for cs.LG on arxiv. Detecting and removing problematic submissions is…

2022-11-18 18:55:44 RT @zaidalyafeai: We are pleased to announce Adawat أدوات, our latest work from @arabicml2 led by @Emad_A_Alghamdi and @superrzk. We create…

2022-11-18 16:55:39 RT @Abebab: remember longtermism is not a concern for AI ethics but an abstract contemplation &

2022-11-18 16:55:30 @dragomir_radev Congratulations!

2022-11-18 16:55:09 RT @jachiam0: really just want to applaud the undoubtedly heroic work being done by anonymous internet archive champions who are downloadin…

2022-11-18 16:54:36 RT @peterclowes: So my friends are gone, the vision is murky, there is a storm coming and a no financial upside. What would you do? Would y…

2022-11-18 16:53:10 RT @peterclowes: I left because I no longer knew what I was staying for. Previously I was staying for the people, the vision, and of course…

2022-11-18 16:50:15 RT @lizallendorf: Wondering about the data split of the evaluation results of a model on @huggingface ? We’ve added a shiny new label for r…

2022-11-18 16:48:27 RT @jjvincent: If Meta can’t cope with people using demos of its AI tech critically - even disingenuously, as yanns tweet implies - then it…

2022-11-18 03:16:33 @the_meghaning Seems based on @S4RKY work. https://t.co/NOd27uMbpT

2022-11-18 03:13:25 @the_meghaning source?

2022-11-18 03:12:22 @GaryMarcus @emilymbender @timnitGebru AFAICU, it's a thing you're adding (I nudged you about this before).

2022-11-18 03:11:47 I started using Twitter regularly when my options at Google to handle systemic discrimination had run out. It was Twitter that helped the truth be known about what was happening behind the scenes. Twitter that held power to account when they sought to mock. Sad to lose it. =(

2022-11-18 03:08:32 RT @cherthedev: I've been on Twitter for 14 (+.5) years. I've made so many friends, gotten wonderful jobs, and been held together by this…

2022-11-17 23:41:24 RT @emilymbender: "Generates text that's grammatical and feels real": We sounded the alarm about this in the Stochastic Parrots paper. Ordi…

2022-11-17 23:23:44 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru ...Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

2022-11-17 23:23:37 @GaryMarcus @trashcanmagic @timnitGebru "I am with your struggle, but not your tactics." Martin Luther King: “...the white moderate...who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"...

2022-11-17 21:16:39 Effective Altruist breeding because of a sense of superiority? Oy vey. https://t.co/aHgMNupTKf

2022-11-17 21:12:53 @AnimaAnandkumar @arvindr_ @wn8_nie @yuntiandeng @ArashVahdat @ChaoweiX @sacdallago @nvidia @Caltech @argonne_lcf Congratulations!!

2022-11-17 21:12:27 When we use "safety filters" that censor content with a broad brush, we create a less safe world: marginalizing large swaths of the population, erasing critical scholarship. https://t.co/1MJoJDZr11

2022-11-17 21:07:03 @ClementDelangue @IreneSolaiman Hear hear! Yay for @IreneSolaiman !

2022-11-17 21:06:40 RT @ClementDelangue: Have you met @IreneSolaiman? IMO, she's the most thoughtful and relevant person in the world right now on machine lear…

2022-11-17 21:06:33 RT @arxiv: We are launching a new arXivLabs collaboration with @HuggingFace to make demos related to papers in cs, stats, and eess directly…

2022-11-17 21:00:57 RT @IreneSolaiman: Thoughtful release of new models that affect many peoples requires actually being thoughtful about those peoples. This…

2022-11-17 20:01:17 RT @yvrjsharma: Another master stroke from incredible team @Gradio ! https://t.co/mg22SdxXjA

2022-11-17 18:27:22 @siddsjaiswal Oh cool work! Thanks for the link!

2022-11-17 17:31:27 tag @benhutchinson =)

2022-11-17 17:31:06 My @huggingface colleague @NimaBoscarino has a paper out on Federated learning and Indigenous data sovereignty!! Such a cool combination of research threads. https://t.co/G4KEtsShei

2022-11-17 17:29:26 RT @SashaMTL: Oh this is super cool!!!! Yay for more ML demos and @Gradio!

2022-11-17 14:48:29 Twitter people are being resignated. Like Google did to @timnitGebru. It's a way to further personally harm people by removing unemployment benefits. Power-trip move of people with issues they're not dealing with. https://t.co/ZQwrfHQmsr

2022-11-17 14:45:23 RT @Michael_J_Black: I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded r…

2022-11-17 14:44:57 RT @amg8414: @aondtrack @sarahecrump It’s okay and healthy to be accepting of death. It allows people to focus on what’s important to them.…

2022-11-16 21:55:04 @a_joseph14 Both DuckDuckGo and Google failed me! This is fascinating, thank you!

2022-11-16 21:54:48 RT @a_joseph14: @mmitchell_ai found it using this new AI based search tool https://t.co/R3xs5KQlSj

2022-11-16 21:54:21 @a_joseph14 =O!!!

2022-11-16 21:52:17 @a_joseph14 YES!!! THAT IS IT!! THANK YOU!!

2022-11-16 21:43:42 I remember she was a woman and she was Scottish, I think. I think it was on Medium.

2022-11-16 21:43:33 I'm trying to find a blog post ca. 2017 where a woman showed the change in gender classification when she went from wearing a shirt to a tank top/hair down. The classifier went from classifying her as male to female. Does anyone remember what I'm talking about and have a link?

2022-11-16 15:57:58 RT @nderground_net: @dorelieart @ZoeSchiffer Unfortunately, California labor law provides few protections for salaried professional workers…

2022-11-16 15:55:58 RT @ZoeSchiffer: NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough T…

2022-11-16 15:39:29 RT @JYSexton: The trauma of this era is significant, but we are lucky to get such an unobstructed view of just how poisonous and hollow ext…

2022-11-16 15:39:22 RT @JYSexton: People of obscene wealth and privilege are so used to living in a world specifically and intentionally wired for them that wh…

2022-11-16 15:35:10 RT @phil_b: @LoneTreeGrove @sandofsky https://t.co/dysedLuvUM

2022-11-16 15:33:47 RT @mcmillen: lmao. https://t.co/qv41UCQtws

2022-11-16 15:33:04 RT @random_walker: Come work with me and the unique community @PrincetonCITP! Our mission is to understand and improve the relationship bet…

2022-11-16 15:31:56 RT @DrMetaxa: I'm teaching a course (CS grad-focused seminar) this spring entitled Algorithmic Justice, with the goal of thinking about rel…

2022-11-16 15:31:09 RT @Dr_Atoosa: Searching for academic/non-academic researchers who work on non-Western AI ethics. Reason? Inclusion in a couple of forthc…

2022-11-16 02:43:38 @eric_is_weird @ae_fernandes @sina_lana Would love that so much!

2022-12-07 18:22:04 @beausievers Apparently @jjvincent is writing the only things I ever want to read now.

2022-12-07 18:16:50 @beausievers We already do, with Getty images. https://t.co/Q136SMJBlt

2022-12-07 18:15:51 RT @baxterkb: It's here! @LinkedIn's #AI Fellow @jquinonero shares how he got into #ResponsibleAI, the criticality of #diversity &

2022-12-07 18:15:30 @jjvincent Revenge porn is (I think) underreported and likely one of the more common outcomes.

2022-12-07 18:14:02 RT @jjvincent: I really don't think we're ready for how EASY tools like Stable Diffusion, etc are going to make the generation of non-conse…

2022-12-07 18:13:25 RT @jjvincent: AI portrait app Lensa is based on Stable Diffusion which (barring the most recent version) is trained on reams of NSFW data.…

2022-12-07 17:46:55 RT @YJernite: If you're registered for @NeurIPSConf and interested in large-scale datasets, come join session 3C in a little over an hour t…

2022-12-07 18:22:04 @beausievers Apparently @jjvincent is writing the only things I ever want to read now.

2022-12-07 18:16:50 @beausievers We already do, with Getty images. https://t.co/Q136SMJBlt

2022-12-07 18:15:51 RT @baxterkb: It's here! @LinkedIn's #AI Fellow @jquinonero shares how he got into #ResponsibleAI, the criticality of #diversity &

2022-12-07 18:15:30 @jjvincent Revenge porn is (I think) underreported and likely one of the more common outcomes.

2022-12-07 18:14:02 RT @jjvincent: I really don't think we're ready for how EASY tools like Stable Diffusion, etc are going to make the generation of non-conse…

2022-12-07 18:13:25 RT @jjvincent: AI portrait app Lensa is based on Stable Diffusion which (barring the most recent version) is trained on reams of NSFW data.…

2022-12-07 17:46:55 RT @YJernite: If you're registered for @NeurIPSConf and interested in large-scale datasets, come join session 3C in a little over an hour t…

2022-12-08 20:40:12 @aryaman2020 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Oy @ryandcotterell 's like reminds us about perplexity and how it's the exponential of the Shannon entropy calculated with natural logarithms which maybe means perplexity is a kind of diversity metric. Hi, I'm just live-tweeting me and @SashaMTL chatting as we write a paper.

2022-12-08 20:36:41 @adjiboussodieng @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld <

2022-12-08 20:28:00 @RishiBommasani @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld oops, this will lead you there (link on right): https://t.co/09SwKJbxwz.

2022-12-08 20:26:28 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Yeah, ecology is definitely a treasure trove for diversity metrics. Was just discussing Shannon-Wiener diversity index as one of the most "basic" with @SashaMTL . Will go down that path some more. =). Thanks!

2022-12-08 20:20:38 @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @judyhshen Oh, there's definitely a ton of sources for diversity measurements, predating us (going back to at least early 1900s). I'm searching for "the most basic", with a citation. You're super relevant for what I'm working on due to your Instrinsic Evaluation paper.

2022-12-08 20:14:33 @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani This seems a good source for earlier measurements of diversity as well. https://t.co/46tbjnlj0w (also of course all the ecology literature)

2022-12-08 20:08:56 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Now I'm wondering if the best reference for using entropy for diversity is actually @adjiboussodieng !

2022-12-08 20:04:38 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Yeah, great call! @RishiBommasani , we are citing you a ton, super grateful for your input.

2022-12-08 19:56:46 @adjiboussodieng (We didn't have it in ours either)

2022-12-08 19:55:29 RT @cfiesler: ChatGPT says that its own creation was unethical, and then makes a number of suggestions for mitigating harm, none of which a…

2022-12-08 19:54:17 Tag maybe @adjiboussodieng -- looked through your paper but couldn't find a "this is most generic"/"first"/"basic" kinda thing.

2022-12-08 19:53:35 Lazy web: What is the most generic/general metric for "diversity" used in ML?

2022-12-08 18:19:57 RT @alexhanna: We were real excited to write about our time in CR, the things we learned, and the collaborations we were forging, but the e…

2022-12-08 17:19:04 RT @Melissa_Lem: Lessons learned: Do your due diligence when someone requests your time and expertise. Don’t hesitate to reach out to colle…

2022-12-08 17:18:51 RT @jjvincent: hot diggety dog — Beyond Measure has somehow snuck onto the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 list!! https://t.co/aFxxTneXTb h…

2022-12-08 17:18:43 @jjvincent No surprise there!! https://t.co/IKpzEQ064w

2022-12-07 18:22:04 @beausievers Apparently @jjvincent is writing the only things I ever want to read now.

2022-12-07 18:16:50 @beausievers We already do, with Getty images. https://t.co/Q136SMJBlt

2022-12-07 18:15:51 RT @baxterkb: It's here! @LinkedIn's #AI Fellow @jquinonero shares how he got into #ResponsibleAI, the criticality of #diversity &

2022-12-07 18:15:30 @jjvincent Revenge porn is (I think) underreported and likely one of the more common outcomes.

2022-12-07 18:14:02 RT @jjvincent: I really don't think we're ready for how EASY tools like Stable Diffusion, etc are going to make the generation of non-conse…

2022-12-07 18:13:25 RT @jjvincent: AI portrait app Lensa is based on Stable Diffusion which (barring the most recent version) is trained on reams of NSFW data.…

2022-12-07 17:46:55 RT @YJernite: If you're registered for @NeurIPSConf and interested in large-scale datasets, come join session 3C in a little over an hour t…

2022-12-08 20:40:12 @aryaman2020 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Oy @ryandcotterell 's like reminds us about perplexity and how it's the exponential of the Shannon entropy calculated with natural logarithms which maybe means perplexity is a kind of diversity metric. Hi, I'm just live-tweeting me and @SashaMTL chatting as we write a paper.

2022-12-08 20:36:41 @adjiboussodieng @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld <

2022-12-08 20:28:00 @RishiBommasani @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld oops, this will lead you there (link on right): https://t.co/09SwKJbxwz.

2022-12-08 20:26:28 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Yeah, ecology is definitely a treasure trove for diversity metrics. Was just discussing Shannon-Wiener diversity index as one of the most "basic" with @SashaMTL . Will go down that path some more. =). Thanks!

2022-12-08 20:20:38 @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @judyhshen Oh, there's definitely a ton of sources for diversity measurements, predating us (going back to at least early 1900s). I'm searching for "the most basic", with a citation. You're super relevant for what I'm working on due to your Instrinsic Evaluation paper.

2022-12-08 20:14:33 @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani This seems a good source for earlier measurements of diversity as well. https://t.co/46tbjnlj0w (also of course all the ecology literature)

2022-12-08 20:08:56 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Now I'm wondering if the best reference for using entropy for diversity is actually @adjiboussodieng !

2022-12-08 20:04:38 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Yeah, great call! @RishiBommasani , we are citing you a ton, super grateful for your input.

2022-12-08 19:56:46 @adjiboussodieng (We didn't have it in ours either)

2022-12-08 19:55:29 RT @cfiesler: ChatGPT says that its own creation was unethical, and then makes a number of suggestions for mitigating harm, none of which a…

2022-12-08 19:54:17 Tag maybe @adjiboussodieng -- looked through your paper but couldn't find a "this is most generic"/"first"/"basic" kinda thing.

2022-12-08 19:53:35 Lazy web: What is the most generic/general metric for "diversity" used in ML?

2022-12-08 18:19:57 RT @alexhanna: We were real excited to write about our time in CR, the things we learned, and the collaborations we were forging, but the e…

2022-12-08 17:19:04 RT @Melissa_Lem: Lessons learned: Do your due diligence when someone requests your time and expertise. Don’t hesitate to reach out to colle…

2022-12-08 17:18:51 RT @jjvincent: hot diggety dog — Beyond Measure has somehow snuck onto the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 list!! https://t.co/aFxxTneXTb h…

2022-12-08 17:18:43 @jjvincent No surprise there!! https://t.co/IKpzEQ064w

2022-12-07 18:22:04 @beausievers Apparently @jjvincent is writing the only things I ever want to read now.

2022-12-07 18:16:50 @beausievers We already do, with Getty images. https://t.co/Q136SMJBlt

2022-12-07 18:15:51 RT @baxterkb: It's here! @LinkedIn's #AI Fellow @jquinonero shares how he got into #ResponsibleAI, the criticality of #diversity &

2022-12-07 18:15:30 @jjvincent Revenge porn is (I think) underreported and likely one of the more common outcomes.

2022-12-07 18:14:02 RT @jjvincent: I really don't think we're ready for how EASY tools like Stable Diffusion, etc are going to make the generation of non-conse…

2022-12-07 18:13:25 RT @jjvincent: AI portrait app Lensa is based on Stable Diffusion which (barring the most recent version) is trained on reams of NSFW data.…

2022-12-07 17:46:55 RT @YJernite: If you're registered for @NeurIPSConf and interested in large-scale datasets, come join session 3C in a little over an hour t…

2022-12-09 02:14:01 RT @judyhshen: @mmitchell_ai @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld There's also a whole line of work about diverse data summarization: https://t…

2022-12-09 01:19:00 RT @adjiboussodieng: PSA: A reminder for those reading recommendation letters in this admission cycle that different countries differ sign…

2022-12-08 20:40:12 @aryaman2020 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Oy @ryandcotterell 's like reminds us about perplexity and how it's the exponential of the Shannon entropy calculated with natural logarithms which maybe means perplexity is a kind of diversity metric. Hi, I'm just live-tweeting me and @SashaMTL chatting as we write a paper.

2022-12-08 20:36:41 @adjiboussodieng @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld <

2022-12-08 20:28:00 @RishiBommasani @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld oops, this will lead you there (link on right): https://t.co/09SwKJbxwz.

2022-12-08 20:26:28 @BlancheMinerva @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @adjiboussodieng Yeah, ecology is definitely a treasure trove for diversity metrics. Was just discussing Shannon-Wiener diversity index as one of the most "basic" with @SashaMTL . Will go down that path some more. =). Thanks!

2022-12-08 20:20:38 @RishiBommasani @WilliamBarrHeld @judyhshen Oh, there's definitely a ton of sources for diversity measurements, predating us (going back to at least early 1900s). I'm searching for "the most basic", with a citation. You're super relevant for what I'm working on due to your Instrinsic Evaluation paper.

2022-12-08 20:14:33 @adjiboussodieng @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani This seems a good source for earlier measurements of diversity as well. https://t.co/46tbjnlj0w (also of course all the ecology literature)

2022-12-08 20:08:56 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Now I'm wondering if the best reference for using entropy for diversity is actually @adjiboussodieng !

2022-12-08 20:04:38 @WilliamBarrHeld @RishiBommasani Yeah, great call! @RishiBommasani , we are citing you a ton, super grateful for your input.

2022-12-08 19:56:46 @adjiboussodieng (We didn't have it in ours either)

2022-12-08 19:55:29 RT @cfiesler: ChatGPT says that its own creation was unethical, and then makes a number of suggestions for mitigating harm, none of which a…

2022-12-08 19:54:17 Tag maybe @adjiboussodieng -- looked through your paper but couldn't find a "this is most generic"/"first"/"basic" kinda thing.

2022-12-08 19:53:35 Lazy web: What is the most generic/general metric for "diversity" used in ML?

2022-12-08 18:19:57 RT @alexhanna: We were real excited to write about our time in CR, the things we learned, and the collaborations we were forging, but the e…

2022-12-08 17:19:04 RT @Melissa_Lem: Lessons learned: Do your due diligence when someone requests your time and expertise. Don’t hesitate to reach out to colle…

2022-12-08 17:18:51 RT @jjvincent: hot diggety dog — Beyond Measure has somehow snuck onto the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 list!! https://t.co/aFxxTneXTb h…

2022-12-08 17:18:43 @jjvincent No surprise there!! https://t.co/IKpzEQ064w

2022-03-19 18:35:27 @conitzer Oh THAT'S a clever idea. Reverse engineering the recommendation algorithm here, I'll try that next.... 2022-03-19 18:34:42 @julien_c @SashaMTL @ParcolletT Hmmmm. Not entirely opposed. 2022-03-19 18:33:15 @LeonDerczynski King County? You're moving here? =D Coool! 2022-03-19 02:23:21 @DataSciBae Hope you're ok! 2022-03-18 22:43:55 @RealAbril WOW! This is very selfless and brave of you. Let me know if I can help!! I believe I was fired in part for having credible evidence of systemic bias against Black employees, so, ya know, might as well use it since I was already fired for it. 2022-03-18 22:42:20 RT @RealAbril: bit of news... 2022-03-18 22:41:34 @DynamicWebPaige I guess I'm still pondering it. It was over a year ago! Shout out to their cool shop: https://t.co/iSaUgV7pCW 2022-03-18 22:41:10 @DynamicWebPaige I have a Tensorflow T-shirt that I wear sometimes. One time the fellow who owns Indoor Sun Shoppe asked me about it, but I couldn't tell if it was because he was into TF or because it was mysterious to him. That shop is right next to Google, so I pondered this for quite awhile. 2022-03-18 22:38:16 @ruthstarkman @alexhanna @sjjphd I often will add "Sorry" if I say something similar. In part because I have learned that people will think I'm rude if I don't add that word. =/ I *do* almost always feel sorry not to help, though! But I also understand why someone wouldn't add that one word. 2022-03-18 21:57:34 @dabit3 Ditto. 2022-03-18 21:56:29 Wait, are you guys the same Simpsons character, or different ones? =/ Maybe you're different ones. Sorry! 2022-03-18 21:55:49 I did the muting thing for now, and recommendations are definitely good now! Also, @ChrisGPotts @migueldeicaza , you guys should meet! See, the ability to downvote Who to follow recommendations is useful for everyone. https://t.co/AV7KbGyP25 2022-03-18 21:48:19 @SOOPURscruffy @ThatSpiderByte @Twitter @ruchowdh Thanks for helping though! The muting definitely is a better option for now. 2022-03-18 21:47:28 @emilymbender @Twitter @ruchowdh Not to derail the convo. I'm just reminded of Google trauma when I have to see Sundar every time I tweet. Hence the tweet thread in the first place. 2022-03-18 21:46:41 @emilymbender @Twitter @ruchowdh This reminds me so much of situations I've had at Google, where I'd have just a really straightforward/obvious/good idea, stemming from some situation of discrimination, & 2022-03-18 21:41:25 @emilymbender @Twitter @ruchowdh Really it's a benefit for content recommendation as well to have this feature.... 2022-03-18 21:40:58 @emilymbender @Twitter @ruchowdh Yeah, it seems quite similar to how for ads, you can often say not relevant/don't show me this. Basically content recommendation in general could have this feature, I think.... 2022-03-18 21:39:12 @SOOPURscruffy @ThatSpiderByte @Twitter @ruchowdh Basically I do still want to have these people in my normal flow of Twitter, recommended to me on my feed when something is happening relevant to me. I just don't want to see them every time I open Twitter. 2022-03-18 21:38:39 @SOOPURscruffy @ThatSpiderByte @Twitter @ruchowdh Oh cool! Although if I am not directly tagged, but the QT/RT is from someone I know, I won't see it, right? Or yes? (And Twitter is indeed making the tagged/not tagged distinction wrt muting?) 2022-03-18 21:20:40 @numbakrunch Good idea, but... https://t.co/CCUWvvKjQB 2022-03-18 21:13:37 @ThatSpiderByte @Twitter @ruchowdh That's a good idea! Although I'm not sure I want that either. I do want to see things they say when they directly relate to me or misinformation about me -- situations where someone else may tag me in a QT or RT of what they're saying. 2022-03-18 21:10:39 Is there nothing I can do to stop it? @Twitter or @ruchowdh maybe? 2022-03-18 21:10:15 There are three people on Twitter in my various networks who have harmed me personally and directly, so I intentionally do not follow them. Twitter will not stop recommending them as "Who to follow", so I get to see people who who make me feel horrible *every time* I tweet. Cool. https://t.co/8Le0W0dkSu 2022-03-18 19:57:51 @negar_rz Also removed the whole landscaping of the pond and the waterfall thing, and flattened everything out. And removed the other water feature. So yes it is very bland atm compared to what I was doing, for the record! 2022-03-18 19:49:06 @DorotheaBaur Thank you! Actually it looks a bit more faded than it is. Spent a long time choosing the color so that it was a neutral tone that was also really happy/bright. Soon after we did it, we saw ~4 other houses nearby repainting their houses the same color. I felt very adult-cool. 2022-03-18 19:47:08 @SashaMTL And that's a really low price at the moment! 2022-03-18 19:22:06 @negar_rz Well I dug out basically all of the plants I had planted, so it's quite barren now, but at least the layout I landscaped is there. I was super excited that the landscapers and realtors liked it. 2022-03-18 18:16:39 @datasociety Hehehe. Reread that tweet. 2022-03-18 18:12:56 @_dmh Oh wow, thanks for that. I had no idea, appreciate it. 2022-03-18 18:09:38 His French-fluent sister has added English subtitles too, so fear not, you needn't be fluent in 1920s' French. 2022-03-18 18:09:07 Portlanders!! My partner has just finished scoring ℎ, an **awesome** 1929 feature-length French film, and it will be screened at Clinton Street Theater in PDX on Mar 30. Go see it! https://t.co/gEfgSrH9fV 2022-03-18 18:05:09 RT @LucileSaulnier: Just wanted to share with you a small preview of the application we built on the road for @BigscienceW dataset! As… 2022-03-18 17:59:11 @rcalo Yeah, I think we (or maybe just I?) figured out we were walking distance from one another shortly before COVID started. Oh well. =( Listing price is *definitely* on the lower side. We'll see what happens... 2022-03-18 17:54:47 @mikarv Yeah, we'll throw that in for free with a good offer! 2022-03-18 17:41:40 It's official! My house is for sale! Someone please buy it!! Details here: https://t.co/GcxFsul6wL 2022-03-18 17:40:24 @cherthedev @_dotbigbang_ NICE!!!!!! 2022-03-18 17:40:06 RT @cherthedev: I'm excited to announce that I'm back in games! I've joined ControlZee to work on @_dotbigbang_! I'm excited about the int… 2022-03-18 17:37:48 RT @taniyatts: @mmitchell_ai Thanks @mmitchell_ai for sharing this! Folks, we have opportunities for middle school, HS, undergrads to be i… 2022-03-18 03:00:36 I do some mentoring with SureStart, it's a cool group! You can apply for a 6 week computer science course (free!) here. https://t.co/QjkKWt3g9s 2022-03-17 21:39:33 RT @jennwvaughan: I'm partway through reading the latest @NIST report on managing bias in AI and already my neck is starting to ache from t… 2022-03-17 21:39:17 RT @ChrisGPotts: For my Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics course at Stanford this quarter, I made screencasts of all the content, wi… 2022-03-17 21:39:07 RT @coworkerfund: Solidarity Fund co-founder Liz Fong-Jones is matching ALL donations to the fund up to our goal of $20,000. Have your imp… 2022-03-17 21:38:41 @BrianRhoArc 2022-03-17 21:37:48 Sundar, CEO of Google, suggests Clippy for online calendars. :facepalm: https://t.co/yQTQ6vsztY https://t.co/GKY6EG7Iqd 2022-03-17 20:55:38 @TaliaRinger @emilymbender @sundarpichai ...Are you really amazed, though? What he says from the vantage point of PR (supporting good work) and his actions (indistinguishable from petty vengeance and discrimination) have remained clearly separate. I think it's been consistent for his whole tenure as CEO. 2022-03-17 20:50:40 @RWerpachowski @TaliaRinger @emilymbender @sundarpichai Our own experiences are part of a much larger pattern, and were only possible by the chain of events where each individual erred on the side of hurting and demeaning women where they did not hurt or demean men in comparable situations. (2/2) 2022-03-17 20:50:11 @RWerpachowski @TaliaRinger @emilymbender @sundarpichai In contrast, I don't think reducing the effects of structural discrimination to just the experience of two AI researchers is helpful. The opposite: It's detrimental to highlighting the realities and facts of how Google's structural discrimination operates. (1/2) 2022-03-17 20:46:41 @emilymbender @sundarpichai Looks pretty desperate to justify forcing technology into as many things as possible. I remember having really good substantive conversations about exactly this idea while I was at MSR. Sundar's view here would have been understood to be incredibly dimwitted. 2022-03-17 20:41:31 @RWerpachowski @emilymbender @TaliaRinger @sundarpichai @Google This is way outside of how things actually work and were working, I appreciate you specifying it's your take instead of putting it forward as if fact. 2022-03-17 18:01:07 So after victimized @cherthedev wrt discrimination, she successfully helped create a lot of good legislation protecting workers--emotionally thrashing work with no income. WHILE dealing w things like harrassment, doxxing,retaliation, & 2022-03-17 17:52:34 Also: Ick, Reddit. 2022-03-17 17:51:16 .@BigscienceW and @huggingface are doing an "Ask Me Anything" on the 24th, 9amPT/12pmET/17pmCET. Come learn about our efforts on training a large language model with 900+ international researchers! I'll probably be around too? https://t.co/z3oOZpcocE 2022-03-17 17:46:34 RT @mathbabedotorg: Michael Thaddeus exposes Columbia University. Good for him. I hope this convinces people to stop trusting the college… 2022-03-17 17:34:18 @cherthedev Congratulations!! I am having to produce a bunch of money for taxes and house prep before selling, but once my house sells (hopefully by first week of April??) I plan to go on a donating spree, I will try to help here as well! 2022-03-17 15:18:39 RT @SteezyFlexTM: This, in addition to your scientific contributions, is why we stan you, ሓፍተይ! Here, @timnitGebru dedicates an AI focused… 2022-03-17 15:11:03 RT @JoeReddington: Periodic reminder that I wrote a book on memory palaces and I and one reviewer think it is really excellent. https://t… 2022-03-17 01:11:28 @BayesForDays @ZaldivarPhD MAYBE PETA GOT THE IDEA FROM US! 2022-03-17 01:09:50 @BayesForDays @ZaldivarPhD It wasn't just us who invented it? Damn! Well, good ideas often have multiple people independently come up with it. 2022-03-17 01:08:07 I'd like to think that we used it enough it has now spread so that people I don't even know are using it. 2022-03-17 01:05:32 @operaqueenie @lyelr I invented it with some friends! What was the email?! I don't even know you this is very exciting! 2022-03-17 01:05:00 "Feed two birds with one scone" is a phrase we invented when beginning to develop Google's ML Fairness initiative. We kept hitting multiple goals at once and felt bad about all the birds we were killing. Credit due to @ZaldivarPhD and Mario Guajardo-Céspedes. https://t.co/n5KnXWWW7k 2022-03-16 22:42:31 The fact that those who are retaliated against by G are disproportionately women/LGBTQ should be clear by now. Consistently erring on the side of hurting women/LGBTQ is one result of structural discrimination. Article is here: https://t.co/kaiNewXWt6 https://t.co/WjqfgqBvgd 2022-03-16 22:37:30 @_joaogui1 The Mariupol Drama Theatre bombing stimulated that tweet. 2022-03-16 22:34:23 Holy shit Putin & 2022-03-16 22:33:14 @TaliaRinger Relatedly, I was unaware of what a "tech bro" was until I was gently directed (by multiple Googlers) to look at who PR is. 2022-03-16 22:32:26 @ZeerakTalat @ryandcotterell @aclmeeting You and Ryan together are 2022-03-16 22:30:44 @TaliaRinger Jason Friedenfelds was one of the more alienating people at G for me, and he has one strong reputation: Failing upwards. PR doesn't have to be terrible 2022-03-16 22:27:23 @TaliaRinger I'm not entirely sure it's psychopathy vs sociopathy or megalomania. There is undoubtedly mental health conditions at play that make rationally "wrong" decisions seem right. 2022-03-16 22:23:00 @TaliaRinger Yes, another way that structural discrimination works: Discrimination begets discrimination. Steps: 1: Be treated as fundamentally less than your male/white/Asian peers 2: Go through official channels for help 3: Beg for help 4: Scream for help 5: Get in trouble for screaming 2022-03-16 22:20:15 @TaliaRinger Larry and Sergey own the majority of shares, which incapacitates the ability for shareholders other than those 2 to create structural change for good. 2022-03-16 22:17:38 @TaliaRinger Need to amend what I originally said here. -Current method for bringing profit to G uses structural discrimination. -That is not the only method to bring profit. Maximizing profit is a *highly* non-convex optimization problem & 2022-03-16 22:13:34 To be fair, this is specifically referring to my career in Big Tech. Another place I have worked, CSLU (Sub-Dept in OHSU) under Brian Roark, was an utter dream in terms of being treated well compared to my male colleagues. 2022-03-16 19:41:19 RT @GroNlp: We are hosting ML Demo.cratization in the Netherlands with @osanseviero will give a hands-on class to undergrads on How to… 2022-03-16 19:40:14 @TaliaRinger The benefit is money. And when you're at the company long enough, you unconsciously backpropagate to think that everything that brings the money is right/good. 2022-03-16 19:36:38 RT @mrdbourke: Teaching/learning machine learning can sometimes feel like taking a potions class at Hogwarts “So why is it that we use ReL… 2022-03-16 19:29:35 RT @inafried: Scroll through your feed. Find one person or two people who sound like they could use a kind word. DM or tweet or email or wh… 2022-03-16 19:28:09 @histoftech THANK YOU!! I CANT STOP 2022-03-16 19:25:03 RT @christopher: The codebase structure of the @BigscienceW Engineering Working Group. Bonus points if you can spot the @BigScienceLLM trai… 2022-03-16 19:20:07 8% if the population dead and barely a blip in the news. https://t.co/WZOr0AByRd 2022-03-16 19:17:56 @TaliaRinger Google provides a legal department that supports execs and attacks non-execs. This includes supporting execs in illegal actions and attacking regular employees for legal actions. 2022-03-16 19:16:19 RT @TaliaRinger: It feels like Google execs can use social media in basically any way they want except to apologize when they do something… 2022-03-16 19:15:54 I am so fortunate to, for the first time in my career, not have to regularly deal with someone higher up in the hierarchy with a personal vendetta against me. Relatedly, my crushing anxiety has almost entirely disappeared. Multiple therapists were correct. https://t.co/8piAg3CNGV 2022-03-16 19:10:58 @fowlerism That wouldn't break NDA AFAIU because it's not specific to products/services/etc. That said, I am quite confident that if G lawyers had the chance to sue me without the public and news paying attention, they would try to use things such as that. 2022-03-16 18:56:20 This would in some cases break NDA. If you care about not breaking NDA (I do!), don't do this. Protip: If you consistently respect NDA, you can pull "if I go into detail it would break NDA" when you get hard AI questions. https://t.co/CfetX29iG0 2022-03-16 18:53:28 RT @susangladwin: @anoushnajarian @DuckDuckGo @firefox @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @Google Or use Ecosia search engine, works great 2022-03-16 18:53:24 RT @mervenoyann: I made a very simple @Gradio Space to Hogwarts Sorting Hat https://t.co/3cEjp8cF3V original implementation by @Gan… 2022-03-16 18:52:43 Large Language Models (LLMs) have been in tech news a lot recently -- for good reason. As part of @BigscienceW , we are training a public LLM, and you can see it training in real time. See and links below. https://t.co/0iJ7V2RFEk 2022-03-16 15:58:44 RT @TaliaRinger: @mmitchell_ai The most profitable (alas, hypothetical) business in the world would be to teach tech execs to actually apol… 2022-03-15 15:42:29 RT @Loprahlo: Why is every DEI role in tech under HR? That to me is a 2022-03-15 15:28:25 RT @emilymbender: Looking forward to #chiir2022 this week and to presenting "Situating Search", with @chirag_shah https://t.co/rkDjc4BGzj 1/ 2022-03-15 15:20:23 RT @cherthedev: $SBUX investors: Please vote FOR the proposal: "Annual reports regarding the prevention of harassment and discrimination… 2022-03-15 15:16:21 @anoushnajarian @DuckDuckGo @firefox @timnitGebru @Google Thank you so much. 2022-03-15 15:15:36 RT @anoushnajarian: 1 year of happily using the @DuckDuckGo search engine and @Firefox browser on desktop and mobile. Solidarity with Dr.… 2022-03-14 21:51:10 I keep seeing this Urs tweet and getting confused by it because I've spent most of my life feeling like I was worth little or nothing. https://t.co/9zWcGP8GmD 2022-03-14 21:42:47 Clearview reached out for its services to be used by Ukraine, and not Russia. https://t.co/TD5HKAqrJW 2022-03-14 21:20:31 @DataSciBae You can do it. 2022-03-14 21:17:15 RT @ptullochott: Quite excited to share soon my proposal to build the largest ever data base of global waste dumps and landfills in history… 2022-03-14 15:08:56 RT @mayhewsw: @BigScienceLLM https://t.co/ivS6NsDh8M 2022-03-12 18:28:03 RT @ruthstarkman: greetings from Medyka, where it's as bad as the photos. Thank goodness more help is arriving, but we need to do more for… 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-25 04:02:32 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell @emilymbender At all times, women, slaves, could feel pain. Animate. People. It's true & 2022-01-25 03:58:01 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell @emilymbender But all that said, the fact that we're even pondering the ability to experience eg pain speaks to the inappropriateness of using women etc as an analogy. For women to be an analogy, they'd have to have at some point ALSO been arguably unable to experience pain, and God...no.(3/n) 2022-01-25 03:55:28 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell @emilymbender In that view, I think something can be sentient (meaning able to respond to stimuli conveyed thru sound, touch, etc) but not animate (has biological processes). Amanda's definition above (pain/pleasure/consciousness), I can accept as a possibility for a future AI...(2/n) 2022-01-25 03:46:14 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell @emilymbender I don't *think* so altho this kind of boils down to the many ways the term can be defined. My perspective is from an (undereducated) psychology view, and to a lesser extent linguistics, where there's a spectrum of animacy and "has biological processes" is a kind of midpoint.(1/n) 2022-01-25 02:36:02 RT @mervenoyann: if you'd like to share your Keras models and build Spaces based on them, please ping me so I can add you to our Keras work… 2022-01-25 02:27:31 RT @baxterkb: "While previous research on accuracy & 2022-01-25 02:27:04 RT @KreutzerJulia: Machine Translation Mondays of collaborative learning and productive chaos Open to anyone who's interested in MT, join… 2022-01-25 00:57:04 In my read: 1. Google collected protected characteristics of Googlers to profile whose careers to destroy. In my impression, the focus is intensely on LGBTQ+ Googlers specifically. 2. Head of HR caught agreeing and trying to hide evidence. https://t.co/EZOF53GoeD 2022-01-25 00:45:20 RT @cherthedev: I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Urge your state legislators to co-sponsor workplace anti-abuse legislation, H1935, in… 2022-01-25 00:30:29 RT @_alialkhatib: apropos of nothing stop reading into it here's a post about uncritically working with & 2022-01-25 00:29:18 RT @BigscienceW: Behind the scenes A big shout-out to Ellie Pavlick who is co-chairing the Few-Shot Generalization Working Group, focus… 2022-01-25 00:29:13 RT @cherthedev: I will be attending this important event with @SBWorkersUnited on Tuesday night in Seattle! I’m attending both in solidarit… 2022-01-25 00:26:08 RT @erikashimizu: See y'all tomorrow! 2022-01-25 00:21:08 Don't mess with Washington! (Ferguson has been a hero several times at this point.) https://t.co/cbHi7W468i 2022-01-24 22:19:59 New C-suite role at Hugging Face! https://t.co/k4gWSOjjoU 2022-01-24 22:18:27 @GhazinouriEN @timnitGebru Thank you! 2022-01-24 22:18:13 Please please please. Silence normalizes. https://t.co/UWvYP5J6Cp 2022-01-24 21:15:39 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Similarly, Woman column can't be used as support for LLM column, as (among other things) women have historically been sentient and deserving of moral standing. (I hope we agree on this too...) 2022-01-24 21:14:14 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender In other words, the LLM column can't be used as support for the Woman column, because it's within its own Inanimate Object part of the taxonomy. If we agree women/slaves etc ARE in the inanimate object category, then maybe LLMs are comparable. But hopefully we agree they're not.. 2022-01-24 21:09:13 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Confused on discussion of moral standing for future of LLMs (which I see as below "AI"), and sticking the discussion within the "intelligence" row, last column, when I thought we were talking abt moral standing historically of entities like women (bottom left of table). 2022-01-24 21:04:16 @cherthedev @Meta Wow! 2022-01-24 21:03:11 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender This is my current mental model. https://t.co/9s2amYtBNP 2022-01-24 20:40:17 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Oh I see. I thought that was the way you were using it? tbh I got lost in the other thread, there were several concepts that seemed grouped together (sentience, consciousness, intelligence, personhood, deserving moral standing, entity, object, person) but I didn't follow. 2022-01-24 19:11:09 RT @astepanovich: So, it's week 2 at @futureofprivacy and I guess it's that time to say that the job is wonderful, the people are super lov… 2022-01-24 19:06:35 RT @rctatman: Important update to the story: while you may be asked to create an account (and thus be sent to this face match service) you… 2022-01-24 19:05:18 @TaliaRinger This is awesome and awesomely nerdy!! 2022-01-24 17:52:42 RT @maria_antoniak: A reminder that Ukraine is a real place full of real people who have already suffered a lot and are likely about to suf… 2022-01-24 17:49:23 RT @Christine_Basta: We are happy to announce that the Fourth workshop on "Gender bias in Natural Language Processing" is co-located with #… 2022-01-24 17:49:02 RT @SashaMTL: Congrats to @LucianaBenotti , the first Latinamerican Chair of @naacl ! 2022-01-24 17:44:12 Always useful to remember the fudge factor! https://t.co/SpBoW5XATF 2022-01-24 17:41:22 Useful thread to understand why some ethical ai researchers are honing in on issues like benchmarking. https://t.co/odPtJoI8qc 2022-01-24 17:39:27 @Abebab Why would you do this to yourself?? 2022-01-24 17:38:07 It's all coming together!! https://t.co/2RMVdfpNLq 2022-01-24 17:34:48 @emilymbender Yuh, my impression is the term can mean Safety *for* AI. As opposed to Safety (for humans) *with* AI. 2022-01-24 05:14:26 RT @ruthstarkman: Joint representation of working memory and uncertainty in human cortex “When you ask people to estimate explicitly and ve… 2022-01-24 03:57:53 RT @EarlOfEnough: "Critical Race Theory" painting by Jonathan Harris. Impact ... immeasurable. https://t.co/PZW7sDq0uB 2022-01-24 03:56:50 RT @pomeranian99: I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for th… 2022-01-24 03:50:25 RT @habeshaintech: My Tech Journey with @Abebab (PhD) Thank you Abeba for sharing us your Tech Journey. Have a listen and share this… 2022-01-24 03:35:58 @mdekstrand https://t.co/Fsw5Bs6Xpg 2022-01-24 03:29:46 This is useful to understand why the "alpha woman" norm is so toxic & 2022-01-24 00:10:39 RT @rcalo: Frame this 2022-01-23 21:55:28 @Miles_Brundage I like how you wrote this on a Sunday. It was THAT SLEEPY. 2022-01-23 21:24:56 RT @HabenGirma: Professor @EmilyMBender tells Google & 2022-01-23 21:11:29 RT @KimCrayton1: This was too good not to steal… https://t.co/FLtcG2VQcz 2022-01-23 21:11:11 @BrianRhoArc But everyone knows a blickle is just a bleached pickle, Brian. 2022-01-23 21:06:54 @jachiam0 @emilymbender @AmandaAskell @timnitGebru I mean, personally, the only reason I've been responding to Amanda's thoughts (and not others) is bc I respect her in particular amongst all the people who've responded to the LM stuff. I'm getting a bit lost though...real beliefs and academic thoughts are both interacting here. 2022-01-23 21:03:02 @AmandaAskell @timnitGebru @emilymbender (Is it really that useful for rights-expanding movements if it alienates people who otherwise might be helping?) 2022-01-23 19:22:57 @_brohrer_ @hardmaru Don't a lot of N95 masks have their own curvature tho? See that's where your argument falls apart. 2022-01-23 19:15:54 RT @XandaSchofield: We're hiring visitors in my department for 2022-2023! This an open-rank visiting professor position: we're looking for… 2022-01-23 03:00:57 RT @ubiquity75: The point is not whether or not the chatbots have feelings. It’s the codification and normalization of abuse of women throu… 2022-01-23 02:56:17 @AnneMarieJukic @mdekstrand This is literally a situation I open with in my talks on perception, objects, and cognitive prototypes. 2022-01-23 02:53:36 RT @veenadubal: So Amazing! “With just a handful of interviews so far, I’ve already learned so much about Black labor organizing in tech i… 2022-01-23 02:52:09 RT @BerniceKing: My father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had bouts of depression. I’ve had my struggles, as well. My mother shared ab… 2022-01-23 02:46:15 RT @MarkSendak: Amazing summary of important work by great teams including @rajiinio @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai and many others to improve… 2022-01-23 01:13:10 Thank you @pavsmo for the article! 2022-01-23 01:10:36 “Being on the receiving end of misconduct in tech and in other industries ruins lives,” Glasson says. “...They’re struggling with anxiety, depression, and in some cases thoughts of suicide. Because NDAs were involved, many of the people can’t take action.” 2022-01-23 01:08:57 Feeling so honored I can follow after fellow Washingtonians @cherthedev and @chelseyglasson , who have put themselves out there so much to make the world better for OTHER marginalized people in tech. 2022-01-23 01:07:54 Let's slow inequity in tech! "In Washington, state senator Karen Keiser has introduced a new bill to expand whistleblower protections, which draws on the experiences of @cherthedev, ex-Google AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell, and @chelseyglasson." https://t.co/AqWw0Jpp3O 2022-01-23 00:59:03 @vboykis hahaha 2022-01-23 00:36:13 @ragepath @gordic_aleksa @HabenGirma "The devil doesn't need advocates, he needs opponents." Love this. 2022-01-23 00:29:20 @emilymbender @timnitGebru Similarly, unfair treatment != torpedoing careers of researchers who write a thoughtful paper 2022-01-22 22:48:16 @LiveLongAndCSS @cherthedev Sorry. I can be a bummer when maybe that's not 100% the best response. 2022-01-22 22:16:51 @cherthedev You'll get there soon! 2022-01-22 22:14:55 @yaroslavvb Are there any authors that appear a lot in this list? 2022-01-22 22:13:52 Oo I wanted someone to write a paper on this, interesting to see. https://t.co/XpDjurPVEE 2022-01-22 22:03:36 RT @Abebab: this is a brilliant thread on why ML lacks fundamental science 2022-01-22 21:53:13 @emilymbender @timnitGebru It's hard to watch, but it's important to see. 2022-01-22 21:52:42 @emilymbender @timnitGebru I'd guess the narrative is that Blaise is a victim of unfair treatment. The disconnect between what seems reasonable inside Google vs outside is important because it can be unclear what we mean by things like "systemic inequity" in tech. This is a relatively concrete example. 2022-01-22 21:44:55 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender If an argument for an LLM's eventual humanity is based on (2), then comparing that (2) to a woman requires woman=object. That's where the reasoning goes haywire. (With gross misuse of syntax, sorry world!!) 2022-01-22 21:43:48 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender Something like: Given: 1. if object(a) & 2. if object(a) & 2022-01-22 21:38:48 @AmandaAskell @emilymbender There's something Logic-y here that's been eluding me. Something about talking past one another in terms of the axioms/predicates and the logical consequence. 2022-01-22 21:09:51 A Google Research VP put out a piece on large language models (LLMs) used in AI. One of the ppl in charge of me & @emilymbender does a great job summarizing some issues. I hope it also sheds light on the kind of thinking G Research promotes. https://t.co/RrVpYOJnOK 2022-01-22 20:57:41 RT @DAIRInstitute: "There’s a tendency I’ve observed where people trying to argue that language models “understand” language to draw analog… 2022-01-22 20:54:30 Woke up feeling tense about uphill battles and interpersonal hostile politics in tech and then remembered at my job now I can just code and be a scientist and do what I love and nobody is mean to me. Filled with happiness and relief. 2022-01-22 20:50:41 @SashaMTL It will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. https://t.co/SjLRSIOI16 2022-01-22 20:32:32 RT @iamKierraD: This is such a great space and @dev_nikema is doing an excellent job leading it https://t.co/IhXHOKOIcU 2022-01-22 20:32:04 @SashaMTL Do you know about the burrito trick for putting in duvet covers?! 2022-01-22 06:20:00 @cherthedev https://t.co/9obneuSpV7 2022-01-22 05:11:38 RT @HabenGirma: A Google VP compared AI to Deafblind people, misinterpreting #HelenKeller’s words to paint her similarities to #AI. This hu… 2022-01-22 05:02:11 @ruthstarkman @Stanford Thank you!! 2022-01-22 03:51:32 If you want to catch up on some of the deets relevant to Google retaliation stuff. https://t.co/c9iA1KaJGJ 2022-01-22 03:04:56 RT @laurenceb: So glad I was able to be a part of this. Great explainer video of some of what's been going on with Google. Fight's not over… 2022-01-21 23:32:20 @johnchavens real action (not inaction) you mean? 2022-01-21 23:05:03 @ryandcotterell Oh I'm abstaining, I do not feel qualified to judge. John Hughes has creepy female objectification stuff going on in his movies that makes it harder for me to connect to more modern movies. But curious to see the answer. =) 2022-01-21 23:01:58 @ryandcotterell I am glad you're asking this very important question. 2022-01-21 22:54:12 @cindervision Sorry to hear it. =( Hugs to you too. You're in way too much good company. And gonna take a wild guess that you're involved in the LGBTQ+ community, which (at least at Google) appears to be a particular honeypot for Google's retaliation. 2022-01-21 22:49:04 One year ago. Screenshot of my message to a friend about what Google decided to do to me. I did not want to be in the news, but Google decided to drag me into their public dirty laundry anyway. When people in tech tell you about "the playbook" for retaliation -- listen to them. https://t.co/QdCUsGf7WV 2022-01-21 17:29:11 RT @_lenaackermann: I sometimes forget that some people use "pronouns" as shorthand for "neopronouns and singular they". And then a sentenc… 2022-01-21 17:23:47 RT @IfeomaOzoma: @RealAbril @Google They’ll pay dei grifters millions to come and “consult” on this but never think about just hiring Black… 2022-01-21 17:22:05 @mikarv Good to hear the GDPR subject access request was actually implemented and working! 2022-01-21 17:05:57 RT @UpFromTheCracks: google employee claimed large language models (LLMs) are like deafblind (and enslaved people ) in how they come to un… 2022-01-21 17:03:22 RT @SashaMTL: I've got an approximation: there will be ZERO APPLES LEFT once we've emitted all that carbon and killed all the apple trees 2022-01-20 23:37:07 RT @DrDesmondPatton: I'm looking to hire a part-time/ consulting web designer with an anti-racist framework. Please DM me! 2022-01-20 23:35:40 RT @olivia_p_walker: If you see this post, I hope you’re having a great day. 2022-01-20 23:35:22 RT @kweku_ag: the way they never told me that i'd have to become a part time illustrator to get papers accepted 2022-01-20 23:34:44 RT @honeycombio: In this week’s Ask Miss O11y, @lizthegrey discusses how to approach instrumenting and setting Service Level Objectives on… 2022-01-20 23:33:07 RT @OlufemiOTaiwo: Today is the official publication date for Reconsidering Reparations. The acknowledgements section could easily have bee… 2022-01-20 23:31:51 RT @ruthstarkman: Watch @Stanford grad Elijah Ndoumbe's Sundance selection available to watch online from January 20 - 30, 2022 https://t.c… 2022-01-20 23:31:13 RT @jonathanmay: About a week left to apply for the ISI summer NL internship: @nlp_usc @USC_ISI @USCViterbi https://t.co/KbX3z1tQeo https… 2022-01-20 22:49:58 Twitter "buried the lede" and picture in the Bloomberg piece. Repasting. https://t.co/8YIvA5MN0I 2022-01-20 22:47:50 Thank you to @NicoAGrant @HughLangley @MartinJBCoulter for the reporting. It stresses me out so much to talk about this and I'm so glad you guys are articulating the issues so well. 2022-01-20 22:46:49 There are ≥2 pieces today detailing hard realities of race & 1-Managers fostering a toxic environment leading to suicidality. https://t.co/8YIvA64opi 2-Leader who bullied but "works on ethics" has finally stepped down. https://t.co/idpTTcFimP 2022-01-20 22:34:14 @NicoAGrant Oh wow, thanks for this. 2022-01-20 22:31:15 @mcmillen @DrLeslie_MD https://t.co/v55MmyRI3r 2022-01-20 22:22:46 @ruthstarkman I'm a big fan of fun historical footnotes, and that struck me as something that could do just that. 2022-01-20 22:20:27 This is so stressful. I don't want companies to be able to "punch down" (or seek to destroy lives of) individual employees. I wish it weren't legally easy, you know? I'd think that most of us, as good people, would wish that a company can't metaphorically bomb an individual. https://t.co/wRn6mvDytG 2022-01-20 20:42:16 I remember not being sure what we were supposed to do with authorship, at that point, and wishing I weren't locked out so I could circle back on a thread where it was under discussion. I did what I thought most directly followed from our discussion before I was locked out. (2/2) 2022-01-20 20:41:13 Also 1 year ago today, the camera-ready of the paper was due, spearheaded by @timnitGebru and @emilymbender, and featuring work from me, @mcmillan_majora, Ben Hutchinson, Mark Díaz, & 2022-01-20 20:35:15 1 year ago, after sharing with Google leads & Here they are, On the Firing of Dr. Timnit Gebru. https://t.co/CwTrv5oNNd 2022-01-20 01:32:31 @ruthstarkman @billyperrigo @emilymbender Proud to be part of the "fellow travelers" either way. =) 2022-01-20 01:32:03 @ruthstarkman @billyperrigo Aww I imagine it's too late for a change unless I submit a formal factual error (which I'm not keen on). The article reads really well with the erasure in place, just odd for those of us hidden behind the writing. @emilymbender too, who was joint first author on the paper 2022-01-19 23:53:43 @billyperrigo Minimally, the idea that Google offered her an ethics position is giving Google way too much credit. It implies they cared about ethics. 2022-01-19 23:37:54 @billyperrigo Thank you for that! Not so much abt doing equally important work (so so many people have equally imp work), but rather of disappearing in a narrative that implies that what I was doing was unique to Timnit. Eg, my work being ascribed to either only her, or "Google". 2022-01-19 03:47:35 RT @abidlabs: Getting started with a machine learning task? Quickly ramp up to speed with Hugging Face's brand-new Task Pages for 15 common… 2022-01-19 02:00:17 RT @chelseyglasson: Google subpoenaed Facebook twice when I worked there, and is now subpoenaing my current employer Compass asking for a l… 2022-01-19 00:25:10 Be kind and gentle to yourself. 2022-01-19 00:24:49 If you think "Oh no I should be doing xyz" remember that actually you should be doing exactly what you're doing, if it's what's helping put your mind at ease. (19/n) 2022-01-19 00:23:27 (5) Find the things you love doing and let yourself get lost in that. Let yourself be present, doing those things, instead of your mind dwelling on traumatic things. (18/n) 2022-01-19 00:21:19 (4) Develop routines that make you feel safe and grounded. I used a "bookends" approach, where the morning & 2022-01-19 00:20:09 (3) Intentionally build a friend network where you talk to different ppl abt different aspects. You can lose friends if you lean too hard on one person. By having many friends you can talk to abt different things, you get a lot of support, and no one gets too stressed out. (16/n) 2022-01-19 00:13:51 !! NOT therapy through EAP !!!! If you want to understand why, you can simply read @chelseyglasson 's story or this NYT article. https://t.co/1Na6ZAdDYB (15/n) 2022-01-19 00:12:22 Seeing a therapist is important, but seeing the right one is what will help guide you. (14/n) 2022-01-19 00:11:40 (2) No matter what happens, it can be traumatic. It's critical to find a therapist who works for you: this can mean moving bw one therapist after another in quick succession until you find one who "clicks". (13/n) 2022-01-18 23:06:32 I'm scared I've learned it's a good idea to be "sneaky", or maybe lie (?). If you play along w a company & 2022-01-18 22:53:55 One Cause: Megan Kacholia is not well managed by @JeffDean --> This isn't funny. It's not a game. These are peoples lives. Suicide, for many--for me--was on the table. (11/n) 2022-01-18 22:50:49 I found myself in the awkward position of having to wait to see if/how my career and my life would be destroyed. (10/n) 2022-01-18 22:48:08 Employees don't yet have much recourse in that situation. I remember calling my representatives, OSHA, lawyers, trying to ask what I should be doing. The answer was essentially: "I can't help you bc you haven't done anything wrong & 2022-01-18 22:45:41 Imagine understanding that you're being targeted for firing and smearing, while still being employed. Like...are you supposed to keep working? Writing papers? Twiddle your thumbs? How bad will the smearing be, and what could it do to destroy your life? (8/n) 2022-01-18 22:42:42 Companies engage in retaliation, and companies engage in smearing. Companies break labor law. None of the law really protects you in the way you think it might (or at all). (7/n) 2022-01-18 22:40:55 But one of the punchlines is that you follow the law At Your Own Peril. You might strive to do everything right, following all policies and laws. In the context of a private company, though, that's doesn't matter as much as you hope it would (6/n) 2022-01-18 22:35:37 (1) @IfeomaOzoma has done an amazing job at providing a resource for exactly this kind of situation: https://t.co/IPPecKQPfI (5/n) 2022-01-18 22:31:09 So instead, let me provide some information to help the next woman who finds herself being actively attacked by her company because she is at the intersection of ((speaking up about race and gender inequity)) and ((a witness of something the company wants to bury))...(4/n) 2022-01-18 22:27:35 ...How shocked I was to see documentation Timnit and I had shared with one another **being deleted**...(3/n) 2022-01-18 22:26:29 How my job was quite literally to steer the path at the intersection of ((legal)) and ((ethical)) in the face of uncertainty...(2/n) 2022-01-18 22:25:45 First, if it were possible for me to share nitty gritties of everything that happened w/o G combing through to find ways to sue me (as I assume they've continued to do), I would be sharing how f'ing principled I was in dealing with, and speaking up about, discrimination. (1/n) 2022-01-18 22:22:17 On this date 1 year ago, under Google's employment, my life was about to change. Tomorrow would be the day that Google publicly put out a statement about me that many have understood to be "smearing". There's a lot to say...(1/n) 2022-01-18 22:12:38 @luke_stark It's a really useful example of how/why some women involved in critical, historical moments, just disappear from the history. More of a meta-comment on erasure, marginalization, and the role of journalism. 2022-01-18 22:07:15 @luke_stark For the record, I'm not upset or anything, and I love these articles coming out that key in on Timnit's unique vision. That's independent of me not "making the bar" for a lot of journalists. Also no one really cares (cept my mom, thanks mom!) 2022-01-18 22:04:37 Mom: I saw another article talking about your work!! But it didn't mention you. Me: Yeah Mom: It mentioned the organization you built, your team... Me: Yeah Mom: ...mentioned a bunch of OTHER people... Me: Yeah Mom: Why does that keep happening? Me: Are you new to being a woman? 2022-01-18 22:02:05 This is a GREAT article on Timnit and her work! And names a bunch of relevant people. *Really recommend* reading it. At the same time, it's a near-perfect example of what it looks like for your life's work to be erased in the public narrative. https://t.co/lgsAdXwltN 2022-01-18 20:00:33 RT @TheSignalsNetw: "...the problem with AI is not only the ingrained biases in individual programs, but also the power dynamics that under… 2022-01-18 18:24:20 @SkyLi0n I'm proud to say that I'm def one of the main Latex dark knowledge sorcerers. 2022-01-18 18:21:23 Silenced No More Act for Washington hearing, happening NOW: https://t.co/XdMABa67WK 2022-01-18 17:50:30 HR focused on whether there was "harassment", "retaliation", or "discrimination". Abuse was not a named concern. When I flagged some verbal abuse & Support this bill, @cherthedev explains how: https://t.co/IRRXhriupZ 2022-01-18 17:39:38 https://t.co/wRBk1sN4Av https://t.co/INfgbA9nbc 2022-01-18 17:36:23 @cherthedev @RepDrewHansen Would it also help if folks use the form attached to the bill to mark support? 2022-01-18 17:28:29 RT @KaustVision: computer vision papers https://t.co/c7Eb35HPVM 2022-01-18 17:26:41 RT @Naturanotitia: Een van de belangrijkste levenslessen die we onze kinderen kunnen meegeven is aardig en respectvol naar andere te zijn.… 2022-01-18 17:23:57 RT @hardmaru: A nice thread that explains intuitive why self-attention mechanism is needed in order to properly represent the relationships… 2022-01-18 17:19:14 RT @MesrenyameDogbe: The first edition of #everythingopensource is happening on Wednesday, 19th January, 2022 at 7:00pm GMT on Twitter Spac… 2022-01-18 06:54:59 @TaliaRinger omg I want to write this paper 2022-01-18 06:33:10 One cool thing about writing with a lot of co-authors is that you learn a lot just by editing your own paper. 2022-01-18 02:40:28 RT @chelseyglasson: Today the WA legislature discussed my unfortunate experiences with a Google-sponsored @LyraHealth EAP counselor in cons… 2022-01-17 19:01:24 @cherthedev You did great!! Thank you for representing!! 2022-01-17 16:16:37 RT @osanseviero: [1/n] Open Roadmap thread! One of the things I like the most about @huggingface is its strong culture for collaboration… 2022-01-17 16:03:20 @gullabi @emilymbender @huggingface It is in the tags (as I've screenshot here), but it should be further auto-populated into the card (TODO). https://t.co/tm3oHy5sl3 2022-01-17 15:57:54 It's MLK day in the US. He reminded us that “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” I'm always grateful for this lens when trying to make sense out of the horrors of discrimination. We have so much more work to do. 2022-01-17 15:46:23 In the case of Github, the head of HR stepped down. In the case of Google, HR is a different story. On this day 1 yr ago, for the first time, I shared an experience of Google HR codifying gender and race inequality. https://t.co/dTQ4FqBqx3 2022-01-17 15:39:07 One year ago today: Github recognized "errors in judgement and procedure" in a recent discrimination-fueled firing, and publicly shared: "To the employee we wish to say publicly: we sincerely apologize." https://t.co/gZ8ElnHNlc 2022-01-17 14:30:37 RT @LilaDavachi: Me: Explaining Glass half full or half empty?’ and the relation to optimism/pessimism my 10 yo: ‘That’s silly bc it dep… 2022-01-17 14:27:55 RT @CarlaNotarobot: The existence of Google Earth, Apple Air, and Amazon Fire implies there must be a Microsoft Water. 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-13 02:55:02 @DataSciBae Haha. Too true. 2022-01-13 02:54:03 RT @SoniaCuff: https://t.co/xRqyuxExsp 2022-01-13 02:52:16 @kalmus_michael @huggingface Still developing it. For some roles/people we use take-home exercises, which can be useful when there's not a lot of signal on what the skillset is from the CV. 2022-01-13 02:50:14 @rwamit @huggingface Might make sense to do a take-home exercise and present sort of a mock/mini dev adv approach that you'd take. 2022-01-13 02:46:51 @lizardlucas42 @huggingface Maybe you could apply to an internship position, at least to start? 2022-01-12 23:39:41 @cherthedev @EricOlsonTMF We have to pay taxes on *paying* for lawyers? Damn... 2022-01-12 23:38:08 RT @PauleannaR: Hi! I'm a Senior Contributor at ForbesWomen, I write about female leaders who are shaping the future. Pitch me at pauleanna… 2022-01-12 23:35:54 @Do_Widzeni_a @huggingface Yes, in general for all roles, and explicitly! https://t.co/jUcAmcahGV African times align well with European times, so that works well from the remote standpoint. We currently have someone working remotely from Nigeria. 2022-01-12 23:07:56 @widged @huggingface More options become possible once the company is larger and public, but not quite there yet. 2022-01-12 23:07:17 @widged @huggingface Sorry.=( 1-Agree: not being FT doesn't mean you're not committed. Prob poor choice of synonym of "full time", sorry for demeaning. 2-PT def limited when you have a very small but global distributed startup working different chunks of hours. 2022-01-12 22:46:19 @rctatman @Rasa_HQ Much deserved!! Congratulations! 2022-01-12 21:58:02 @cherthedev Yeah, at my bank they asked all about why I was dealing with such large funds. What happened, who I was paying it to, why, etc. They said it was part of protocol to ensure I wasn't being scammed, but it was ...awkward. 2022-01-12 21:52:30 @Day1Fanilow @huggingface Well, social scientists/non-traditional tech folks are *absolutely* included when I say "AI/machine learning work". It will take a couple years (I think) to be in a place where we can hire people without any background in ML or AI...probably once we go public? Not sure. 2022-01-12 20:43:01 RT @Floridi: New Article, Open Access: "The Digital Services Act: an analysis of its ethical, legal, and social implications" @SSRN https… 2022-01-12 20:42:01 RT @maddow: “When I refreshed the website and saw it, I literally punched the air and let out a hoot because it was something I've been… 2022-01-12 20:41:17 @DataSciBae I did that last night too! 2022-01-12 20:24:29 @KLdivergence Thank you! 2022-01-12 20:23:34 For everyone reading this who: - Does machine learning/AI work - Has characteristics that are marginalized in tech - Is generally a flexible person, good at defining their own workstreams Please consider applying to work at @huggingface --> 2022-01-12 20:12:53 RT @ChristophMolnar: No amount of deep learning can fix bad data. Modeling is fun, good data is hard work. Improving data can mean - goin… 2022-01-12 19:51:38 @TaliaRinger 2022-01-12 19:51:00 @davidschlangen ? https://t.co/WDLJg4nmyl 2022-01-12 07:13:52 @axbom Yeah, thanks for clarifying, that's why I included a link to the piece too. Didn't have bandwidth to check the Twitter post, but really appreciated the art. 2022-01-12 05:33:14 @quidditch424 I say something like, "Is it fine with you all if I don't make this meeting? Have a lot of TODOs at the moment" (or similar). 2022-01-12 05:29:59 , "I Can’t Help Myself" by Sun Yuan & https://t.co/CKJ5uqGJ13 https://t.co/rEDc6BjdMj 2022-01-12 05:26:45 RT @karlitaliliana: Hey, I could use seeing pictures of your puppies and babies. It was that kinda day. 2022-01-12 05:26:33 @jovialjoy @MIT @GeorgiaTech @UniofOxford @EmoryUniversity @medialab @EthanZ @LatanyaSweeney @kanarinka @AJLUnited Hooray!!! Congratulations!!! https://t.co/PQrz5HjHiP 2022-01-12 03:50:00 @vrandezo Yeah, true. I was just thinking of Brain as well. I think the full number of female RS who have been at Google > 2022-01-12 02:16:19 RT @rctatman: This looks like a really interesting seminar: Indigenous Data Sovereignty & 2022-01-12 01:10:19 @cherthedev @leftoblique @emahlee Great work!!! 2022-01-12 01:10:09 RT @cherthedev: I have to give a tremendous thank you to @RepBerg and @wickswa38 for sponsoring HB 1935 in the 21-22 Washington State legis… 2022-01-12 01:01:22 Also the number of female Research Scientists at Google who have been there > 2022-01-11 21:20:49 @mjp39 Ughhh. =( 2022-01-11 18:22:35 RT @usmint: The first coin of the American Women Quarters™ Program is here—the Maya Angelou Quarter! Learn about honoree Maya Angelou and #… 2022-01-11 16:52:58 @ruthstarkman @TechCrunch It wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't such an assumed supremacy of technical people over non-technical people in tech. But there is, and any signal that suggests you may not be technical, esp as a woman, can become another massive barrier I think... 2022-01-11 16:51:55 @ruthstarkman @TechCrunch Only somewhat related...if the main ethics person is called "Chief Ethics Officer", won't it be assumed that they aren't technical? There's already such a strong push to say people who do ethics in AI aren't. If your title has nothing tech in it, won't it make that problem worse? 2022-01-11 16:47:15 RT @buildsghost: Damn, I could get paid so much to have my soul crushed. 2022-01-11 16:47:09 RT @KaylorToles: Now soliciting participants for Pittsburgh's Law and Language Workshop this semester! We'll be reading scholarship in the… 2022-01-11 16:46:31 RT @Aaron_Horowitz: Would love for this to become standard at @FAccTConference and other interdisciplinary venues. Too many people from dif… 2022-01-11 16:45:05 RT @sleepinyourhat: This is starting now! We're no longer accepting new registrations—just broadcasting how proud I am for what @swapneel_m… 2022-01-11 16:44:25 RT @ryandcotterell: Come study at ETH! 2022-01-11 16:42:59 New article out from @Kyle_L_Wiggers touching on the BigScience project and its relationship to some of the things going on @huggingface. Describes work from me, @YJernite, @mcmillan_majora, @Thom_Wolf, and more. And some quotes! https://t.co/uewbaXx6QX 2022-01-11 16:25:14 Oooo https://t.co/8Qh0ePdYEi 2022-01-11 16:22:13 RT @ruthstarkman: National AI Initiative Office Launches AI Researchers Portal - https://t.co/Li3MKodHDz 2022-01-11 16:21:23 RT @snchancellor: My kid is at home from daycare this week because of a COVID exposure in his classroom. Several papers are also going in w… 2022-01-11 16:19:25 @unsojo @huggingface Welcome! 2022-01-11 16:19:09 Excited to be joined at @huggingface by @unsojo today!! She is an incredible interdisciplinary researcher, spanning economics, history, machine learning, sociotechnical systems and more. Stay tuned for some cool new research. https://t.co/ZgPbxSZoe1 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-06 04:19:07 @Miles_Brundage I'm thinking of the dotcom boom and bust, which (I think) eventually led to the dominance of a much smaller set of .coms, among them Google and Amazon. 2022-01-06 04:14:46 @Miles_Brundage Tesla's AC! 2022-01-06 04:12:43 @Miles_Brundage Dot coms kinda? 2022-01-06 03:35:16 RT @jpiquer: Con un grupo de amigotes TI armamos una propuesta constitucional para el chile digital: https://t.co/O4oFN6ilgP Si les gusta,… 2022-01-06 03:27:54 RT @AnimaAnandkumar: If you want to study the history of #womeninstem and the bravery of trailblazers, read this https://t.co/BRmqEz2rJE 2022-01-06 03:27:45 RT @AnimaAnandkumar: My mom was one of the first female engineers in my community. Initially, my grandpa refused since she would be too qua… 2022-01-06 03:12:19 RT @mikelove: Whoever made this should receive an award https://t.co/QTSwqqtkcy 2022-01-06 03:09:22 RT @osanseviero: Almost 5K followers Follow me for: - Cool ML demos built by the community - Resources to learn about ML - Learning a… 2022-01-06 03:04:36 Really amazing reflections and advice. https://t.co/8LtKn88meA 2022-01-06 03:02:58 RT @julieletchner: Power is about so much more than revoking a title or even hiring or firing. It's uncomfortable to use power outside the… 2022-01-06 03:02:47 RT @julieletchner: Pretending that the recent nonsense is unexpected or shocking, and distancing yourself from a problem that you tolerated… 2022-01-06 03:02:26 RT @julieletchner: Feel like your hands are tied? Think bigger. Look to labor movement history. Civil rights history. Help your students or… 2022-01-06 03:02:01 RT @julieletchner: The bad apples are not the problem. The problem is how they flourish in your department. It's you, the complicit 85%, wh… 2022-01-06 01:37:49 RT @rcalo: We Robot 2022 call for papers is open! https://t.co/kHPYRmdNKD Please help me spread the word https://t.co/u8LpDkxS5o 2022-01-05 23:47:26 @techgirl1908 100% 2022-01-05 23:44:28 @rctatman @zehavoc @severo_dev @huggingface This is a sort of ASAP-bare-minimum to address what I think is one of the most pressing issues -- sharing PII -- and a start at examining and further addressing issues of consent and appropriate usage. 2022-01-05 23:42:43 @rctatman @zehavoc @severo_dev @huggingface Oops, that last bit is still awaiting a code approval. Should be there shortly. 2022-01-05 23:39:54 @rctatman @zehavoc @severo_dev @huggingface - Removed the ability to *download* any audio sample directly from the website - Clarified within the Data Card for datasets with Non-Commercial licenses that they are only intended for research purposes, and to check the original licensing terms ... 2022-01-05 23:38:28 @rctatman @zehavoc @severo_dev @huggingface - Made sure the license on each was clear and easy to find - Specified the PII concern in the data cards under "Personal and Sensitive Information" - Made sure the LDC license in particular provided for playing some of the voices as examples in our specific use ... 2022-01-05 23:36:49 @rctatman @zehavoc @severo_dev @huggingface Thanks for flagging this! Huddled with some others at @huggingface and we went through all of the speech datasets to do an ASAP first-pass on Data Card updates and licensing terms. Will be followed up by more, but in the meanwhile, we did this: 2022-01-05 23:25:58 @erik_a_werner Totally counts. 2022-01-05 23:15:19 To everyone I know involved with CU Boulder, I am so sorry this is happening to you and let me know if there is anything I can do... https://t.co/QKeZ2XZjtx 2022-01-05 23:13:48 RT @timnitGebru: How are we letting this happen in 2022? How are people capable of dehumanizing humans so much that they think this is ok? 2022-01-05 23:12:32 RT @laurenceb: I'm so amazed by what @IfeomaOzoma and others have accomplished here! One minor correction, some muzzling that predates Jan… 2022-01-05 20:21:31 Did anyone else do this in DOS? Curious in particular about my non-American nerdy friends...did you do the same thing but a different flag? https://t.co/FtKQKl8kxi 2022-01-05 20:14:27 If we're counting "mucking with DOS" as programming, then the answer is 10. If "programming" means "making functions call other functions and do things", then also when I was about 14. https://t.co/dKhhpPkNC7 2022-01-05 20:12:54 @chris_brockett @emilymbender ooooo 2022-01-05 20:11:28 @_nateraw @osanseviero Yeah, Nate has the "currently looking into this" reading too! I'm not entirely crazy, haha (okay I am but at least not alone on this one). 2022-01-05 19:56:12 @severo_dev @osanseviero WHAT! I thought it meant, "I'm taking a look" or "looking...". I was chiding @YJernite for saying on a doc and then not immediately being inside that doc. Now I'm just a jerk, hehe. Sorry Yacine! 2022-01-05 19:14:05 @suzatweet My JoJo was way evil as well! https://t.co/i2BDRvIyWV 2022-01-05 19:00:17 I just want to again thank everyone I interact with for being so kind to me. Even when I'm unarguably being an a-hole. The grace, understanding, & 2022-01-05 18:56:34 Not 100% sure what this means, but if it means that Kent was responsible for a playbook of retaliation and very personal targeted harm against Googlers, then I hope it brings fundamental updates to labor law and appropriate accountability. Will keep following the NLRB case. https://t.co/J7OVUhcT6Q 2022-01-05 18:53:11 @chris_brockett @emilymbender Ooh, love that one. 2022-01-05 18:45:52 RT @Theophite: i don't understand how many people's basic problem is that they are distressed by hearing about racism and think the solutio… 2022-01-05 18:06:12 @i_amdawson @emilymbender I like palenel! 2022-01-05 08:28:15 @laurenceb @timnitGebru 2022-01-05 03:52:29 RT @timnitGebru: @ruthstarkman @mmitchell_ai @anoushnajarian @ledell @JeffDean Thank you Ruth. I can’t wait for your students to be in the… 2022-01-05 03:14:41 @ZoeSchiffer "performance *against* social and environmental goals for 2022" ? It's...an interesting word choice and maybe a bit too on-the-nose. 2022-01-05 02:54:24 Kent is the legal guy in charge of overseeing -- and approving/recommending -- the kinds of things Google did to me and @timnitGebru . https://t.co/SRajwtnpxx 2022-01-05 02:13:47 RT @ledell: @JeffDean https://t.co/QYaVCPCcEg 2022-01-05 02:13:22 @anoushnajarian @ledell @timnitGebru @JeffDean Sorry. Not in a great mood. Some days are better than others. We're around the anniversary of Google locking me out and things don't feel great. 2022-01-05 02:12:50 @anoushnajarian @ledell @timnitGebru @JeffDean ....it can't ever stop being treated like a piece of worthless trash by people hierarchically above you. 2022-01-05 02:12:44 @anoushnajarian @ledell @timnitGebru @JeffDean When you're a woman, no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you overcome, no matter how well-cited you are or how influential your research is, no matter how much respect you garner from your colleagues... 2022-01-05 02:08:10 @anoushnajarian @ledell @timnitGebru @JeffDean ...that stem from his position as research manager. Nor the role it has played in belittling how hard we have both worked throughout our careers on improving DEI. It's not a coincidence that some of the main identity groups for inclusion, WiNLP and BinAI, were founded by us. 2022-01-05 02:06:41 @anoushnajarian @ledell @timnitGebru @JeffDean When/if he takes responsibility for his actions--& 2022-01-05 01:22:22 @DynamicWebPaige @cdossman @github Brand new work includes something else I was always meaning to do, a tool for curating and measuring datasets that doesn't require a programming background. (https://t.co/1yiC8LU2aD) Never short on ideas, thankfully... 2022-01-05 01:19:08 @DynamicWebPaige @cdossman @github Absolutely. HF currently has templates for both M cards and data cards https://t.co/6z870Peb9f, https://t.co/bes3COtn8a. So much more to do but had to backburner working on this so I could haul ass on brand new work to counteract Google otherwise slowing my career down. 2022-01-05 00:30:42 @SashaMTL Same same. 2022-01-05 00:30:13 @SashaMTL That's great! 2022-01-05 00:29:31 @alexhanna Rest! Let me know if I can do anything! 2022-01-04 23:04:48 @JFPuget Next year, just _think_ about the kind of model you want and it will magically appear. 2022-01-04 22:42:08 @emilymbender @timnitGebru Thanks for the clarification! 2022-01-04 19:21:17 What @le_roux_nicolas said. We can turn the norms of discrimination around in AI, but we need a coalition of people speaking up and refusing to normalize it by silence. https://t.co/DUoYCYZGM9 2022-01-04 19:19:29 @le_roux_nicolas @willie_agnew Hear hear! 2022-01-04 19:17:22 @rajiinio It's the Alpha Hero narrative. Which is such a strong archetype across human storytelling. I wrote a post on this as well awhile back...it's really really hard to get writers to think outside of the box on that one. 2022-01-04 18:16:26 @rctatman @severo_dev @huggingface Thanks for this, let me look into it. 2022-01-04 03:44:42 @timnitGebru @uwcse That department has *incredible* students, though. Want to make it clear that difficulties with associated professors are distinct from the students and their research passions. 2022-01-04 02:50:11 Time it takes for a company to agree to pay you: 2 seconds. Time it takes for company to pay you after you've done the work: 4+ months, only after sending multiple emails. I need to charge more. 2022-01-03 22:22:21 It's telling when my twitter feed has so many AI people tweeting "that guy is a sexist pandering for attention", and everyone knows exactly who is being talked about without naming. 2022-01-03 22:19:54 WAY TO GO CALIFORNIA! Now the entire Pacific West Coast does mail-in voting. =) https://t.co/Cz2HDguSSB 2022-01-03 22:14:56 RT @willie_agnew: So, if you're a queer person interested in AI and technology interested in organizing and participatory methods, if you w… 2022-01-03 22:14:44 RT @willie_agnew: I want to re-up some joyful news and talk more about why we're doing this!Queer in AI is hiring two people!! We a… 2022-01-03 22:06:47 @TaliaRinger Word. 2022-01-03 22:04:20 @willie_agnew There was literally an email going around from a prof there saying they shouldn't hire me **because it would make @JeffDean mad**. So many levels of "this is what is wrong with the ML culture" there. 2022-01-03 22:03:42 @willie_agnew Yuh, my related tweet: https://t.co/dT68ZewaDI Continually amazed by how *awesome* the students are & 2022-01-03 20:06:33 RT @timnitGebru: To people engaging with a certain "deranged activist" (a term he used for me) professor emeritus of @uwcse, people have to… 2022-01-03 20:02:45 @timnitGebru This is also unfortunately not new for UW CSE NLP. When a troll with initials "NS" tagged me (& 2022-01-03 03:59:04 Thanks to @erikashimizu and @IfeomaOzoma and others for pushing for this fundamental step forward in stopping discrimination from employers. https://t.co/Mo7xglWW9C 2022-01-03 03:54:05 RT @ruthstarkman: Announcing the 2022 Reboot Student Fellowship https://t.co/42nhp6I44I 2022-01-03 03:53:53 RT @kay314159: in 2022 please resolve to put alt text on your image tweets 2022-01-03 01:13:57 RT @mikarv: Interesting new article from @grahamgreenleaf & 2022-01-02 21:30:56 RT @EhudReiter: "Data does not speak for itself - it needs people to speak honestly and carefully on its behalf" https://t.co/8QmkHhOuKt 2022-01-02 20:21:53 RT @Jessifer: For those working to figure out how to structure a course in our current moment, synchronous or asynchronous, in-person or on… 2022-01-02 20:16:53 RT @ruchowdh: “The algorithmic crystal ball that promises to predict and forestall future crimes works from a fixed notion of what a crimin… 2022-01-02 20:12:13 As a remote manager, I also ended up doing all of these things. I'd also add that it's important to give your team opportunity to comment on things going on at the higher levels, which helps inform how the team stands wrt the rest of the company, creating more cohesion. https://t.co/Ag2lQeXeed 2022-01-02 02:35:00 RT @mjp39: how it’s going https://t.co/Wpjx1LFRhT 2022-01-01 23:49:12 RT @rcalo: Submissions open Monday for We Robot 2022—papers, posters, and robot demos. https://t.co/pWTZJM4h9s #werobot In person in Seat… 2022-01-01 23:27:04 @ed80 @cherthedev Exactly, haha. 2022-01-01 00:35:28 RT @ruthstarkman: Despite the struggles of 2021, students achieved a lot! They improved vax/ PPE access, provided for each other, the ill,… 2021-12-31 21:22:50 @mjp39 I'll give you a power cord with a UK plug from an off-brand mobile phone circa 2010, if you want! 2021-12-31 21:20:49 @rmarcilhoo @DynamicWebPaige Great news!! And relevant @huggingface as well. 2021-12-31 21:20:11 RT @DynamicWebPaige: @github "Well-maintained READMes, guides, and repos can result in as much as a 50% increase in productivity. Meanwhil… 2021-12-31 20:40:11 RT @PMcgawesome: @mmitchell_ai If you want to do something to change this in Washington state, please sign this petition to show your suppo… 2021-12-31 20:33:41 @cherthedev Me, thinking about all the times I've "Inspect Element"ed on online forms that seemed to be broken, including on the IRS website. https://t.co/ZRdSPY00jk 2021-12-31 20:29:33 RT @tomandlorenzo: Dying hours before New Year's Eve ensures that Betty White will have more toasts made to her memory on the day she died… 2021-12-31 20:29:22 RT @_jack_poulson: Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI -- a "one year [subscription] to web-based platform… 2021-12-31 19:26:43 To everyone dealing with pain & To everyone who's overcome obstacles placed by jerks, take time to appreciate what you've gotten through. Know the best revenge is living well. Now plz someone do a best cat gifs of 2021... 2021-12-31 19:17:53 @bentarnoff Woah, there's a hot take. 2021-12-31 19:14:25 "It’s all based on the doctrine of at-will employment. Your employer can act in bad faith to you. They can bulldoze you, and there’s really not much you can do to stop them...The at-will doctrine is a pernicious one..." And can be used to traumatize you. https://t.co/hzVYwoNmnh 2021-12-31 19:09:04 https://t.co/83QRjRSisL 2021-12-31 19:07:34 "let’s pause and appreciate the people who are doing the dirty background work to make datasets, and therefore models, more accurate, just, and equitable" https://t.co/RC3Wnz8lgC 2021-12-31 19:01:53 RT @bkeegan: “Setting up an emergency command center in the parking lot of a mass shooting site to manage a wildfire burning down the neigh… 2021-12-31 18:57:03 RT @RoxanaDaneshjou: I just want to acknowledge that this year was tough for many (including myself). You don’t have to list your accomplis… 2021-12-31 18:54:10 RT @UpFromTheCracks: this year has been both so violent and awful but also beautiful. I’m grateful for all the support i’ve received person… 2021-12-31 18:52:18 @KevinBankston @m_c_elish Lucky you! Wishing you guys a happy 2022. 2021-12-31 18:50:59 @rachelcoldicutt Squishy burritos and hammered bronze! Love it. 2021-12-31 18:43:27 RT @IfeomaOzoma: Silenced No More goes into effect tomorrow. I’m so proud of all of the work that made it a reality for 40 million Californ… 2021-12-31 18:42:36 RT @Abebab: as 2021 comes to an end, here's to maintaining generosity and kindness but also having the courage and freedom to speak up agai… 2021-12-31 18:22:12 RT @math_rachel: I want to share some essays I wrote & 2021-12-31 05:43:41 RT @Slaterfe: In the words of @patentdrop, what does it mean to give companies like Amazon “a peek into our emotional worlds,” and what leg… 2021-12-31 04:21:45 @mjp39 Oh no! Let me know if there's anything I can do... 2021-12-31 01:11:12 Aaah! Boulder friends! 2021-12-30 20:11:55 RT @VocalFriesPod: 2. Me Myself and AI with @emilymbender. I learned so much from this and her Stochastic Parrots paper (with @timnitGebru… 2021-12-30 19:38:17 @npparikh I hope so! 2021-12-30 19:32:43 When we talk about inequality in tech, this is what it looks like. 2021-12-30 19:32:32 Almost a year after being personally publicly disparaged across the world by Google PR, and it appears that the man in charge of my PR--Jason Freidenfelds--continues to lead Google AI PR. Friendly "you are worthless and deserve to be publicly flogged" message, thanks Google. 2021-12-30 19:19:13 Is it possible to be a tech company making profit while also not putting your marginalized employees through intensely hostile discrimination? 2021-12-30 18:53:07 @trochee That made me laugh out loud, hahhaha. 2021-12-30 18:40:48 RT @karstanczak: In "A Survey on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing" with @IAugenstein we present a study of 304 papers on gender b… 2021-12-30 18:40:19 @krvarshney https://t.co/3xXK6NoYhF 2021-12-30 18:37:53 RT @krvarshney: After an arduous journey over the last two plus years, I am happy to announce that I have written a 300 page book "Trustwor… 2021-12-30 18:18:03 I've been super stoked to work with @SashaMTL, one of the rare ML/climate change scientists in the world. https://t.co/A0BV6ynnys 2021-12-30 18:16:14 @anas_ant @aclmeeting @ReviewAcl ... Unless I'm missing something, I don't think you should be sharing the details of the paper publicly at this level of granularity while it's under review. Lmk if it would help if I explain why. 2021-12-30 00:48:02 RT @JannekeParrish: This is a fantastic article by @shiringhaffary about tech whistleblowers, why we matter, and the power we hold. It is v… 2021-12-29 22:09:04 @Abebab =( =( =( 2021-12-28 20:58:44 RT @IasonGabriel: This history of Africana philosophy podcast series is an incredible resource with ~50 hours of talks, ranging from ancien… 2021-12-28 20:33:30 RT @rcalo: (If your institution wants to establish an interdisciplinary tech policy unit, don't hesitate to get in touch. We've learned a l… 2021-12-28 19:44:02 @haldaume3 (Showing my fam's roots) What I really love are all the interleaved songs you can do with Heigh Ho Nobody Home: - Rose, Rose, Rose, Rose - Soul Cake - Ah, Poor Bird We used to sing these in interlocking rounds around Christmas when I was younger. 2021-12-28 19:29:39 RT @emilymbender: For the accountability and #PSEUDOSCI files: "As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it."… 2021-12-28 19:24:02 @MiaD @WomeninAIEthics Yeah...I feel like I've noticed this with Will Knight before. Is this a continuing problem? I had it in the back of my head that this was an issue with him but maybe I'm not right? https://t.co/GtdcijTyND 2021-12-28 19:04:53 @ruthstarkman YES 2021-12-28 19:02:10 @Abebab Shit. Can I help? Rest rest rest! 2021-12-28 18:45:09 @LeonDerczynski Hahah, this is awesome. 2021-12-28 18:44:00 @sebgehr I can do a few. 2021-12-28 00:56:48 RT @krotondo: this is an important law to shield victims from further abuse by their employers for speaking out. when you see me talk about… 2021-12-27 18:26:04 RT @rctatman: It occurred to me that there are probably a lot of folks who are just now dealing with long term hyposmia (reduced sense of s… 2021-12-27 18:24:30 @JannekeParrish @cherthedev Yuh, completely. I've spent waaay too much time at BUR throughout my life, I know all the cool spots. Like where to watch the sunset. You're jealous, I know. 2021-12-27 17:56:26 @cherthedev Burbank airport, waiting for delayed flight that was eventually canceled. https://t.co/4BKcHbeVxD 2021-12-27 17:53:22 @_TomJones @cherthedev I don't know why I even asked that...we literally met with Sen Keiser. I blame the flight cancellations pandemonium that was going on all around me. 2021-12-27 16:16:51 ...because if we can publicly share the discrimination we experience, then our reality (ideally) won't only be funneled by an HR that solely protect abusers at the top...and journalists could even write about, and share, the discrimination patterns directly. 2021-12-27 16:13:06 I'm working w my fellow Washingtonians @cherthedev and @chelseyglasson, following the CA work of @erikashimizu and @IfeomaOzoma, to allow WA workers to share discrimination, harassment, and assault/abuse. This can help incentivize STOPPING discrimination against good people... https://t.co/OzhLkXHptX 2021-12-27 16:07:08 Washington voters! Please ask your legislators (can find here: https://t.co/RZM9MyWY27) to support WA's version of "Silenced No More", SB 5520 (https://t.co/SYOea00NIA)! Makes it illegal for employers to require employees not to disclose harassment, discrimination, assault/abuse. https://t.co/KCgf1Q9wDG 2021-12-27 15:57:39 @_TomJones @cherthedev Oh, der. Right, thanks! So people can use e.g., this, to find their legislative district and corresponding legislators to contact if they don't know who they are: https://t.co/WMnf1aX2KH 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-20 21:10:40 @TaliaRinger @emilymbender @timnitGebru Thanks. 2021-12-20 21:08:35 @TaliaRinger @emilymbender @timnitGebru Definitely spent a lot of time on it, and we definitely had a lot of strong disagreements about what to highlight and how to talk abt it. Was very happy w the end product (hence i could put my name on it), but took many months IIRC. 2021-12-20 18:52:47 RT @csdoctorsister: The greatest non-cash gifts are giving your attention, care and time. 2021-12-20 18:48:26 @ShannonVallor Spotify REALLY WANTS ME to listen to Donovan's Sunshine Superman. Multiple times per hour, if possible. 2021-12-20 16:51:21 RT @annargrs: The CFP for the third https://t.co/axQAhVOnm7 is out! Short papers & 2021-12-20 16:50:30 @timnitGebru I love Esube so much! 2021-12-20 16:49:25 @emilymbender @timnitGebru The very same one who verbally thrashed me, then fought for me to have the lowest acceptable performance rating possible, blocking my ability to be promoted for abt 2 years. Weee. Good to be king. 2021-12-20 16:46:18 RT @negar_rz: @alexhanna @emilymbender Adding to that the experiences of people with disability in tech industry, @math_rachel has amazing… 2021-12-20 16:45:06 RT @timnitGebru: Thanks to my friend Esube Bekele, 3rd Workshop on practical ML for Developing Countries: learning under limited/low resour… 2021-12-20 16:28:33 @deliprao Same, except then I rename the folder to "writing" or "work" or something, hehe. 2021-12-20 16:22:03 RT @hardmaru: Even a cockroach-level AI will be a major breakthrough 2021-12-20 04:08:08 RT @timnitGebru: Does anyone know people at @UNHCRCanada? There are refugees in Libya whose paperwork has been ready since 2020 & 2021-12-20 03:32:08 @AmandaAskell Agree. 2021-12-20 03:29:30 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell A program execution can't be oppressed (right?), but maybe you're saying a program could be oppressed? I can think of some sorta superficial definitions of oppression where that could be true, but the nature of the power differential is fundamentally different. 2021-12-20 03:18:27 @AmandaAskell ...which makes the analogy a particularly problematic one. 2021-12-20 03:17:09 @AmandaAskell Minimally, given that both humans and computers exist within society, the social positioning of humans who weren't treated as full people is so, so, fundamentally different than the social positioning of an LM. The evolution of social concepts are against this backdrop... 2021-12-20 03:13:14 @AmandaAskell 2) Computers are not humans. The reality of *humans* not being recognized as full people can't be equated w *computers* not being recognized as full people, unless you can presuppose that a non-human object is somehow comparable to an oppressed human. 2021-12-20 03:01:48 @AmandaAskell There are just some things at play that make the situations fundamentally non-equatable. 1) LM technology is quickly evolving, a main factor influencing how we will come to see LMs in the future. It's not just abt an increasing social "inclusiveness", it's a change in the tech. 2021-12-20 02:54:32 @AmandaAskell Oh, I should also clarify that by "go from being objects to people" I do mean "go from being considered as objects to being considered as people", thanks for pinpointing that. I was running out of character space so reworked that a few times & 2021-12-20 02:44:39 @cow_trix @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell Single vs. multiple human species is different though...both of those are not situations where some are "objects"-as-such (although definitely property). 2021-12-20 02:38:42 @JohnUBalis @cow_trix @AmandaAskell ...or lesser humans, or more ape-like humans, or whatever, but still, minimally, animate & Are there historical accounts of humans literally believing other humans are objects in the same way that computers are seen as objects? (Distinct from *treating* as objects) 2021-12-20 02:34:09 @JohnUBalis @cow_trix @AmandaAskell Ok, serious question as someone who is utterly crap at history. Has it ever been the case that women, slaves, etc., were seen as "objects" in the same way as computers have been seen as "objects"? My impression is that historically, humans have been treated as *inferior* humans.. 2021-12-20 02:31:42 @JohnUBalis @AmandaAskell "deserving personhood" is a different discussion, though. (And doesn't require presupposing that an object deserving personhood can be seen as equal to a human deserving personhood.) Also gets into the tricky path of what you mean by "deserve", "personhood", etc. 2021-12-20 02:23:50 RT @marypcbuk: very occasionally you can see this in action: face/vase illusion or where you read the caption to an image and *totally see*… 2021-12-20 02:23:12 @tszzl ...Then I don't think your summary above is fair, "you fundamentally don't believe machines can feasibly be people". I'm definitely open to the idea that machines can be sentient. (Now what "sentience" means becomes a whole thing....) This is (obv) distinct from being human. 2021-12-20 02:21:26 @tszzl That then becomes about the semantics of "people" and "personhood" which...I don't think there's very clear agreement on...and I think we were defining it differently. If you're saying "people" are "all entities with personhood", and "personhood" is something like "sentience"... 2021-12-20 02:14:16 @jonwillits @tszzl Sorry, not sure what you're saying. Can you reframe? 2021-12-20 00:41:46 @tszzl To frame it a little differently, we can think abt cognition of animals that's somewhat comparable to human cognition. So maybe dolphins, or apes. Do they become "people" the more their cognition matches human cognition? Or are they still dolphins & 2021-12-20 00:37:55 @tszzl Right right. I could definitely make a case about similarities between human and AI *cognition*. But not personhood. Personhood is a people thing. 2021-12-20 00:32:50 @AmandaAskell [Relatedly], if a language model -- what I think we're grounded on as "objects" -- is argued to be in a similar position culturally as women, slaves, etc., then...those people are being equated with literal objects. 2021-12-20 00:25:51 @AmandaAskell That requires a thread of logic where humans -- such as slaves -- are comparable to *non*-humans -- such as language models. I think this misses the mark on the reality of inequality and how peoples' perceptions change over time. 2021-12-20 00:21:31 @AmandaAskell What you're saying is what I'd like this passage to be saying, but I don't think it is. In this given example, humans/people come to be considered as humans/people, and this is served as a support that *non*-humans/non-people might come to be considered as people. 2021-12-20 00:09:32 @AlexJohnLondon @timnitGebru Yeah, this was my thinking as well. There's a lot to unpack there about science, corporations, research, and the similarities/differences/intersections between propaganda (as one extreme) and dry, reviewed, heavily-referenced & 2021-12-19 23:56:54 @timnitGebru @earnmyturns @JeffDean Weirdly/appropriately, the Kahneman article ends with: "Unfortunately, the more powerful you are, the more you believe your own thoughts." (I think the study reported below is a source for that, but haven't examined further https://t.co/9UyTWFlQ15) 2021-12-19 23:46:02 ...then we normalize that culture and continue to propagate experiences where Black women (& (And we lose a lot of good work.) 2021-12-19 23:44:18 Amn't trying to be harsh: Providing an example of what inequality in tech looks like. It's painful, and it's hard, and this is what it looks like. If we ignore it by telling ourselves that the discussion should only be about "science" & 2021-12-19 23:41:06 Did this go through a similar process to what Timnit (and to a lesser extent, I) had to endure? If not, is the reasoning on why we'd have such different experiences as convoluted as the logic (and uncomfortable supremacy) in this article? 2021-12-19 23:37:53 Third pt I should (begrudgingly) make is the more meta one: Can you imagine Google being ok w me & 2021-12-19 23:31:10 Eg “In visual perception, you have a process that suppresses ambiguity...a single interpretation is chosen, and you’re not aware of the ambiguity...[We] search for coherence, things that make sense together...[We're] very likely to perceive things that aren’t there in perception" 2021-12-19 23:30:35 2. The output effects, since human cognition has evolved so well to create an illusion of coherence when there isn't one. This interview with Kahneman is relevant if you're interested in what that could mean: https://t.co/0NTdieioRM 2021-12-19 23:17:40 The pt being made by many thinking deeply abt LMs & 1. The input data, since different input data creates different kinds of LMs. 2021-12-19 23:14:30 This is continued confusion between what might be called "descriptive" uses of language models -- eg, what the model shows about the language it was trained on -- and "prescriptive" uses of language models, where we assert constraints on inputs and outputs. Both interesting. 2021-12-19 23:11:39 Second, the author says they're taking the "contrary view that LLMs have a great deal to teach us about the nature of language". This is a similar argument made by @Ted_Underwood. But...nobody I know working on LMs would disagree that LMs can teach us abt the nature of language. 2021-12-19 23:06:12 ...It's too bad cis white men w typical abilities aren't fundamentally comparable to LMs in this narrative. If we could agree that they're just as comparable to LMs as anyone, then maybe some sort of meaningful argument could be made. But it's not the narrative here. 2021-12-19 23:00:24 As a reader, I can't have "pause" on a point that wasn't proven. I *can* have discomfort w presuppositions that women, slaves, people w different abilities, etc., are fundamentally comparable to language models. 2021-12-19 22:56:10 The article as a whole is written with similar uncomfortable leaps of logic that attribute to the reader a shared understanding w the author that isn't there. Eg, a passage from Helen Keller "should give pause" because a language model could basically be like her. 2021-12-19 22:49:16 @emilymbender But wait, here is a quote from Helen Keller! See, she said things about color! Ergo, language models are like Helen Keller! 2021-12-19 22:47:02 Eek. This is really bad. First...equating slaves w language models in order to make a pt that a language model, like a slave, could go from being an object to a person, presupposes that slaves could feasibly actually be objects, and not people. https://t.co/eNBfrVbERc 2021-12-19 22:01:55 RT @emilymbender: AI researchers: If you're tempted to call on the experience of people with a disability you do not share to make an argum… 2021-12-19 21:42:30 Or maybe even "Understanding [human] language requires understanding the [human] world, and a machine exposed only to language cannot gain such an understanding." 2021-12-19 21:40:20 Neat article on LMs from @MelMitchell1! Would offer a slight variation on one of the main points: "Understanding [human] language requires understanding the world, and a machine exposed only to language cannot gain such an understanding." https://t.co/lo1qwLlzgd 2021-12-19 14:11:25 RT @SashaMTL: In an ideal world, both #machinelearning researchers and reviewers would use their critical thinking to decide that using #GA… 2021-12-18 22:35:56 @YourFondestLove Oh man, Abebooks is owned by Amazon? *#$@() 2021-12-18 22:24:11 @ShannonVallor That's an awesome picture!! 2021-12-18 22:23:07 @mer__edith Struggling with this as well. 2021-12-18 22:22:14 RT @timnitGebru: What. An. Honor. Thank you for including me in this list. And for the piece to be written by @Nanjala1 whose work I admire… 2021-12-18 22:21:42 RT @pconrad: @TaliaRinger HIV/AIDS has lasted just over 40 years and counting 2021-12-18 06:40:31 https://t.co/OgwmnAkZns 2021-12-18 06:39:19 @math_rachel Wow, thank you for finding and sharing. 2021-12-18 06:25:58 After enough time, you may start to think that what you're advising as something *good for the company* is something that you, personally, believe is the right thing to do. We need to recognize that thinking on behalf of a corporation is not thinking on behalf of ourselves. https://t.co/nVjmZoW1KG 2021-12-18 06:18:31 @peard33 @timnitGebru Thanks for the reporting! 2021-12-18 06:16:54 RT @peard33: Exclusive: California probes Google's treatment of Black female workers https://t.co/D1roZQfwIc 2021-12-18 06:14:28 @rcalo Great moment to appreciate where you've gotten in the world. 2021-12-18 06:09:06 @neilturkewitz @timnitGebru @daniellecitron @ma_franks @cagoldberglaw @YaelEisenstat @GretchenSPeters I appreciate "should have known". 2021-12-18 06:02:29 RT @timnitGebru: At google, there's a VP who discouraged ppl investigating issues into YouTube because, according to him, if you find out t… 2021-12-18 05:21:33 @KristinHenry Yeah. Same. The tests are 15 min, but the event is indoors. 2021-12-18 05:19:26 @NilaJones3 @JessPWestbrook My "like" on this is a "Thanks for sharing this!" like. I'm so sorry that happened, that seems completely unfair. =( 2021-12-18 05:07:20 @MelMitchell1 Yeah, I believe there is a reality distortion thing with Blaise that has really hurt me in the past. I'd be concerned that a version of that is at play here. 2021-12-18 04:57:25 @leftoblique Thanks. 2021-12-18 04:52:52 @leftoblique Yeah, this is more abt what someone I love wants to do, not abt what I want to do. I'm 100% behind not seeing anyone. 2021-12-18 04:51:55 @leftoblique I haven't found it reported...or on twitter... Definitely parties where people are all vaccinated have turned out to spread COVID. Haven't been able to find a case where people vaccinated, tested at door, all neg, and still covid spread. (Have found reports that it didn't spread) 2021-12-18 04:39:16 Has anyone reading this been part of a get-together where rapid COVID testing was done at the door, but people still got COVID? Love, Should I Be Part of this Get-Together? 2021-12-18 00:07:14 Helpful, especially if you're not used to reading math. =) https://t.co/8BbOD3mY4w 2021-12-17 22:41:24 @neapel Eesh, yeah, I see the point that this could mean double (or more) counting. The article you link to is helpful, but doesn't mean usage of the term in current PR/comms sticks to what's implied there. (And there's similar wait-what-are-you-actually-saying concerns I see there.) 2021-12-17 22:27:20 **footnote: My use of the term "do anything" is a colloquial usage, closer to something like "substantively change patterns of discrimination" in this context and farther from something like "opening a document and writing things in it". 2021-12-17 22:20:17 I urge journalists to take this further into account when reporting obviously misleading quotes that detract from the seriousness of discrimination, and especially against Black women. (end) 2021-12-17 22:18:28 The tl 2021-12-17 22:15:40 ....Either way, it seems an implicit confession that their is failure at retention, and it's not improving. Paired with standard media training, it's a way to take a horrible truth about your company and reframe it to sound positive. 2021-12-17 22:14:25 " Google last year said it planned to boost retention..." This is the same sleight of hand as above. Saying you have a "goal" of X is similar to saying you "plan to" do X, although perhaps "plan to" means that something was actually written down in a doc somewhere.... 2021-12-17 22:11:44 You can have Black+ meaning "everyone" and this would be consistent with being "inclusive of" some subset. 2021-12-17 22:11:07 The author of this piece writes that the Black+ term is "a designation inclusive of people belonging to multiple races", which I presume to be a restatement of what Google PR/comms said. It again seems to be a funny sleight of hand: .... 2021-12-17 22:06:21 To continue, "Black+", as far as I understand it, means "Black people as well as other people who are not Black". 2021-12-17 22:05:16 ...While I would imagine that many in PR and Comms would not see the issue at all, as evidenced here by it actually being a part of the official statement. 2021-12-17 22:03:11 "Google said...2020 was its largest year for hiring what it calls “Black+” workers"" I would imagine that most Black people would look at the term "Black+" with surprise. What's the +? Why are Black people grouped with this +, especially when only discussing Black people?... 2021-12-17 22:01:16 Note, too, on the subject of discrimination against Black women, their response instead refocuses on "every employee". This is a trick you can learn in media training, I believe it's called "reframing" or "redirection". 2021-12-17 21:53:16 "...and equitable." End of sentence. Equitable for whom, and how? Not specified. Black women are not mentioned. This quote could mean anything from people having equal access to cafeteria food to firing Black women who make leaders feel uncomfortable. 2021-12-17 21:49:32 "...to make sure our workplace is representative..." What does that mean? Representative of what? How many people in PR/Comms actually paid attention to the wording here? 2021-12-17 21:48:00 I believe it's important to raise the alarm when a company like Google says they are "investigating". I fear it means evidence destruction before something is identified as evidence, and/or employee career destruction. I've not seen anything counteracting this fear. 2021-12-17 21:45:22 "...and thoroughly investigate any concerns..." Learned from my own experience, "investigate" can be used to mean ferreting out & 2021-12-17 21:43:04 "“We’ll continue to focus on this important work..." This quote allows for a small set of people at Google to pay attention to employee experiences, and nothing more. Shocker: Companies like Google have employee experience surveys. This is nothing new & 2021-12-17 21:40:32 Ah, here we go: "“Our *goal* is to ensure that every employee experiences Google as an inclusive workplace,”" (Emphasis my own). This PR quote allows for direct discrimination against Black women from leaders of the company under a veil of trying to do better. 2021-12-17 21:38:24 "Google said it is focused on “building sustainable equity”" One trick in PR/comms when you are failing at doing something is to say you have a "goal" or are "focused on building" something to address it. This allows you to not actually do anything & 2021-12-17 21:35:03 Let's read through the lines of Google's responses around discriminating against Black women, shall we? https://t.co/pmJ2z4fPy5 2021-12-17 21:32:15 @bladesjester Which project? 2021-12-17 21:31:13 @rajiinio Want to be an invited speaker???? 2021-12-17 21:30:02 @rajiinio Teaching something similar at UW this spring. 2021-12-17 19:44:17 @NeelBhandari9 Love this. It's about raising awareness. 2021-12-17 19:43:09 Hot take: The US military complex has done a better job at establishing what is PII, and working with it, than the ML community has done. Prove me wrong? 2021-12-17 18:08:27 @YourFondestLove Thank you!! 2021-12-17 17:48:12 RT @itsJaninebtw: “Know the function, the very serious function of racism, is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you… 2021-12-17 17:47:36 RT @ruchowdh: Using NLP to help journalists dig through FOIA requests is *exactly* how we should be using this technology. Congratulations… 2021-12-17 17:46:49 RT @stillinbeta: Woah: Local Engineer Does It Manually Instead of Spending Twice as Long Automating It 2021-12-17 17:46:31 I use Abebooks to find stores to purchase from. https://t.co/6r2ysMVncB 2021-12-17 17:44:15 RT @TheMichelleBao: now that NeurIPS is over, one last plug for our paper on the complexities of using risk assessment datasets like COMPAS… 2021-12-17 17:31:27 RT @Abebab: This book is finally out and I am super excited about it. In the midst of so much AI over-hype, over-promise, and unsubstanti… 2021-12-17 17:26:43 @SashaMTL IOU? 2021-12-17 17:26:06 RT @JesseDodge: very much looking forward to presenting a tutorial at ACL! congrats to my co-organizers on getting the application accepted! 2021-12-16 22:42:08 @erikashimizu Awww hi Max!!! 2021-12-16 20:39:43 "...love that is transformative, that challenges us in both our private and our civic lives...I see [the civil rights movement] as a great movement for social justice that was rooted in love....Real love will change you." https://t.co/yq0B0o1REv 2021-12-16 18:19:09 RT @abhi1thakur: Just arrived! Deep Learning with Python 2nd Edition by @fchollet. My holiday gift to myself :D https://t.co/qzzFnUfhN8 2021-12-16 18:16:01 This is MASSIVELY exciting and interesting for a VERY SMALL slice of the tech world. But I'm definitely in that slice. This is so awesome and welcome @abidlabs and the @Gradio team! https://t.co/ruQXwK1UOr 2021-12-16 17:55:07 @TaliaRinger @elazar_g @shiraamitchell !! One of my favorite people!! Maybe one day all three of us could hang out....(I realize this likely means I'll have to come to Israel...) 2021-12-16 17:53:26 One of those "everyone is way more successful than me" days... (But at least I have a cute puppy keeping me warm!) 2021-12-16 17:51:59 @TaliaRinger @elazar_g 2021-12-16 17:47:57 @mark_riedl Love it! 2021-12-16 17:47:43 RT @omfgitsjeff: I'm selling prints of my original art inspired by the natural areas around Yaquina Head in #Oregon. They're Pay What You W… 2021-12-16 17:47:22 @kharijohnson I feel like I've seen a few of these tweets from you and I 100% agree 2021-12-16 17:46:36 RT @FAccTConference: New FAccT Network event! FairWare'22, the International Workshop on Equitable Data and Technology: https://t.co/cdKjwS… 2021-12-16 17:41:48 Please support this work. “If your priority is people who stay, you’re not getting the point,” Ozoma said, adding that those who stay at companies are, in some cases, “the abusers.” So thankful to people like @erikashimizu and @IfeomaOzoma for making discrimination illegal. https://t.co/6V2j09CHAe 2021-12-16 17:34:03 Potentially interesting AI/climate project. If you had access to this data, what would you do with it? https://t.co/kX2qtHQJ9E 2021-12-15 00:59:07 RT @MelMitchell1: This is a really intelligent and thought-provoking article that deserves this honor! 2021-12-15 00:55:57 @mer__edith @timnitGebru @UpFromTheCracks Gary didn't invite me...but he did message me to tell Timnit that she is invited. Love, Not a Secretary 2021-12-14 17:58:38 RT @morganklauss: This is certainly my most critical paper to date. But I also want to highlight that I believe multiple modes of inquiry… 2021-12-14 17:37:47 RT @FAccTConference: The Call for Applications for our Doctoral Colloquium is now open: https://t.co/NQuEKRQd56 Submit your 1 page thesis… 2021-12-14 17:37:37 RT @GiadaPistilli: Happy and honored to be part of an international group of researchers to contribute to such an ambitious #openscience pr… 2021-12-14 17:37:30 RT @FAccTConference: Do you have research that needs to have wider reach because of its importance to the daily lives of people & 2021-12-14 17:36:38 @emilymbender Catchy slogan! 2021-12-14 17:36:32 RT @emilymbender: What a fabulous initiative! Down with glowing brains and up with thoughtful artistic renditions of what pattern matching… 2021-12-14 17:33:36 RT @SandraWachter5: Dream job alert!! Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Algorithmic Bias and Discrimination. Come and work work with @Jer… 2021-12-14 16:23:50 RT @precariousarts: “The opposite of colonialism is not inclusion. Adding more Indigenous texts to a syllabus neither impacts land relation… 2021-12-14 16:22:34 @ShannonVallor Ick. Ignorance? Check. Hubris? Check. Alpha territorialism? Check. Exemplifies so many core aspects of tech in so few words. 2021-12-14 16:20:24 RT @ShannonVallor: ‘You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.’ 2021-12-14 16:08:03 RT @osanseviero: Some cool https://t.co/2fu66MXmVf demos for this week! [1/8/ Pyxelate (https://t.co/FJeeMHNUD3), it converts images to… 2021-12-13 18:02:36 RT @cfiesler: I've thought a lot about where to publish ethics work within ACM and it's been a bit of a mix (e.g. CHI, CSCW, FaaCT) without… 2021-12-13 17:59:44 RT @abhi1thakur: "Attention is all you need" implementation from scratch in PyTorch. A Twitter thread: 1/ 2021-12-13 06:03:30 RT @struthious: from @emilymbender (and she's said something similar in a @RadicalAIPod ) https://t.co/N8BwMJ9qyz 2021-12-12 22:01:57 For those searching for gifts, reminder that subscriptions to news are awesome. A lot aren't more than $10/mo. Think I'm paying smthn like $35/mo for Bloomberg subscription and I'm pissed about it. If you have the funds, some ppl you're looking for gifts for may feel similarly. 2021-12-12 21:43:23 @a2_matt @ptullochott @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik I'm not here to entertain you on Twitter. Any discussions about interpersonal harm are too serious to first hash out here via tweets. 2021-12-12 21:38:42 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik Yeah, I messaged ya. It's easy for me to talk philosophically about representation in media on Twitter, but abuse or harm bw people needs its own focused attention. 2021-12-12 21:29:10 @_KarenHao You're always writing articles that are so incredibly important in the work I do. Thank you!!!! 2021-12-12 21:22:36 @ashleygjovik @melissamcewen @krotondo That sounds really bad. Would be good to discuss privately. 2021-12-12 21:14:37 @krotondo @ashleygjovik Yeah, that's horrific. Could we discuss privately? I'll message ya. 2021-12-12 20:59:25 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik And to the extent that being remembered matters, we all will be. Maybe not in a specific news cycle, but for the history books, I think it's safe to say we'll all be there. (n/n) 2021-12-12 20:57:32 @ashleygjovik @krotondo @melissamcewen Yeah, I mean. I'm in a similar boat except I'm doing so much less work than you abt my former company. What would you say your life's work is? 2021-12-12 20:52:24 @ashleygjovik @krotondo @melissamcewen Yeah, that's another aspect of this entirely. =( Would be good to discuss directly (off Twitter), that's really serious. 2021-12-12 20:46:18 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik So the goal becomes to keep pushing forward the future you want historians to be able to write about. Continuing to engage in legislative change. Writing pieces, etc. You'll be recognized in relevant circles (news coverage or no), allowing you to keep doing yr life's work. (10/n) 2021-12-12 20:39:13 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik Ofc this has to be balanced against erasure and marginalization...being unable to progress your life or career goals bc no one thinks you're qualified/relevant. That's where the tension is for me at least. It happens bc we don't have historians documenting us in real time. (9/n) 2021-12-12 20:33:27 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik If a journalist decides that mentioning me detracts from the narrative they can provide about changing tech's white/Asian male supremacy problem, then they suck, but also, better to leave me out of it then. The goal here is to alleviate the supremacy problem. (8/n) 2021-12-12 20:32:03 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik The complementary perspective, coming from me/you/whoever may not be mentioned, is around what being mentioned does--why it's important. (7/n) 2021-12-12 20:25:45 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik From a journalist perspective, the q of who's a supporting figure is answered by who would help drive the narrative (not, eg, maintaining historical fidelity). (6/n) 2021-12-12 20:19:24 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik The second related issue is around what being mentioned or described provides. A rule of thumb can be that for every highlighted figure in an article, there will be 2 or so supporting figures. So who gets to be those 2 supporting figures? Not everyone obviously. (5/n) 2021-12-12 20:15:14 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik I feel like I have at least somewhat comparable experience, but if there's something angering in the press wrt me & 2021-12-12 20:05:24 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik And journalists' stories are driven by their editors & One of my favorite clapbacks this year, given some relatively belittling things put forth by journalists about me and who I am, has been "sure, maybe for *your* readership..." (3/n) 2021-12-12 20:01:32 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik Press coverage can be angering and completely erase or marginalize your work. But the people depicted in the articles don't control this. It's the journalists who decide who to listen to & 2021-12-12 19:55:52 @krotondo @melissamcewen @ashleygjovik This thread of reasoning kind of confuses me. Journalists and their editors write the articles, and it's their job to tell a small of slice of the story. Specifically a slice that's compelling to their readers. (1/n) 2021-12-11 20:04:41 @DarceyNLP Haha yeah, I saw that tweet and was like huh, Darcey doesn't review? Well, next time I'm an AC... 2021-12-11 20:00:34 @ashleygjovik @krotondo I recognize this is likely reductive (haven't followed what's happened), I'm just sort of confused. You can still work towards the same end goal, no? 2021-12-11 19:58:05 @ashleygjovik @krotondo Don't really understand what's happened, I've seen a few of these tweets. But since whiteness seems a factor, my 2c as a white woman is that Cher is fighting for the same things as you, right? And succeeding? So be on her team! 2021-12-11 19:45:20 RT @cherthedev: This is horrifying. I used to live in Edwardsville, IL. Tornadoes are expected, and it’s a small close-knit town. @amazon… 2021-12-11 19:29:31 @IfeomaOzoma Nice!! 2021-12-11 18:54:01 RT @SashaMTL: What's a good example of an AI dataset gathered *with proper consent*? Does that even exist? 2021-12-11 04:32:05 @rctatman Note the response from a Tesla shareholder: "She did not have the right of way by looking at the cross walk sign." This was said unironically, as in, it's her fault if she gets hit by a car that can't tell she's there. 2021-12-10 23:55:22 RT @mathbabedotorg: Now I have something to say to the data scientists asking me whether there's a cool job they can apply for: https://t.c… 2021-12-10 23:16:07 @tsimonite @Abebab Thanks for joining! 2021-12-10 22:51:35 Glad this finally happened. “Selling personal information...for water...is an egregious abuse of consumers’ privacy,” Wyden wrote. “…The personal privacy of hundreds of millions of people should not depend upon the goodwill of corporations worried about negative headlines.” https://t.co/ckarAHlGtw 2021-12-10 22:21:29 @rajiinio Thank you!! 2021-12-10 22:02:54 @rajiinio Linko? 2021-12-10 21:53:21 @osoleve Thank you for actually thinking about your impact on the people you'd be managing! 2021-12-10 21:49:52 FWIW I think Jeff still rejects that he did anything particularly wrong: case in pt of not understanding what it is to "manage" employees. Can be contrasted w Y LeCun's decision to head FAIR, but not manage. Don't do it if it's not your strength 2021-12-10 21:43:39 ...no matter how white you are or how much you're respected as an engineer. Don't take on management of some of the most qualified AI scientists in the world if you don't know or understand management. This is what happens. This is why management qualifications are important. 2021-12-10 21:41:12 It's almost like if someone decides to be a manager of an entire research org, without qualifications. What goes wrong is what happened to @timnitGebru, following Jeff Dean's decision to manage. This is why it's important to have management skills when you decide to be a manager. https://t.co/YeNBIlIAse 2021-12-10 21:36:27 @mdekstrand @YJernite @SashaMTL @huggingface Will keep it in mind for the next iteration so that we develop with this kind of format too, to make sure everything still works... 2021-12-10 21:35:12 @mdekstrand @YJernite @SashaMTL @huggingface Oh, okay! So essentially columns of single values? That strikes me as an easier case compared to language data, roughly equivalent to multiple annotations of a single word. I think we can actually handle that _now_ with some minimal changes to what the expected input could be.1/2 2021-12-10 20:03:39 RT @WiMLworkshop: Our second #WiML2021 virtual Mentorship Roundtable session is starting shortly, at 20:15 - 21:55 UTC. We will be hosting… 2021-12-10 20:02:54 @mdekstrand @YJernite @SashaMTL @huggingface as a whole is growing data for computer vision and speech, and I anticipate the Measurements tool to follow suit once we're in v2/v3 launch state. Less sure about recsys data, any chance you can share an example? I can think through how this maps to our roadmap. 2021-12-10 18:57:22 I've come to understand that some tech cos knowingly break the law, betting on the fact that workers they harm don't have enough resources to do anything about it 2021-12-10 18:56:09 If you haven't had a chance yet to read @timnitGebru's excellent piece, do so! So many crucial points, in such a quick read. "we need much stronger punishment of companies that break already existing laws" https://t.co/jBcizzkHco 2021-12-10 17:26:18 @SashaMTL I keep meaning to re-reach out to the woman behind this. They definitely consented to having the images propagated/amplified, but I'm less clear on the connections made to Big Data. 2021-12-10 16:24:03 RT @alexhanna: Really appreciated working on this paper with Morgan and Madi. In this paper, we contextualize modern automated gender class… 2021-12-10 16:23:12 RT @morganklauss: SUPER excited to announce: "Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project" by m… 2021-12-10 16:21:15 RT @ShannonVallor: Pure truth from @timnitGebru: “What truly stifles innovation is the current arrangement where a few people build harmful… 2021-12-10 16:19:14 @SashaMTL https://t.co/oUuqvh4jAq maybe 2021-12-10 16:16:03 @MarkSendak @timnitGebru @rajiinio @m_c_elish @DukeHealth @DukeHeartCenter @califf001 @dramyabernethy Congrats!! 2021-12-09 22:14:12 @yoavgo @IAmSamFin 2021-12-09 22:11:36 @SashaMTL There are some similarish ones here....https://t.co/erl8pq9CER 2021-12-09 22:03:12 @SashaMTL Those are neato! 2021-12-09 21:00:12 @anoushnajarian I think it's just a "breaking my brain" question. 2021-12-09 20:51:37 Which sounds more natural? The ____ you go, the ____ you have travelled 2021-12-09 20:07:18 @ruthstarkman Yeah. Great points and wisdom as always. =) 2021-12-09 20:03:41 Just received some awesome stickers, from @ruthstarkman and her students!! https://t.co/v2yRE68Z9s 2021-12-09 18:57:57 @ruthstarkman Yeah, great point. It's surprising to me how much my view of AI & 2021-12-09 18:47:10 RT @jlkoepke: we are hiring! come help lead our economic justice work @TeamUpturn, with a specific focus on hiring and jobs. ...and b… 2021-12-09 17:44:03 Bahahahaha https://t.co/xzmHRSAmaa 2021-12-09 15:50:54 @TheSydneyA Yeah, it definitely only makes sense for some people. Like the ones who already had a seat at the table, and used you to get further ahead. 2021-12-09 15:41:24 For those thrashed by the tech co.s they worked at, are there some people still working there whose choice to stay at the company directly normalizes, enables, or empowers what they did to you? How do you come to terms with that or be at peace with the ppl making these choices? 2021-12-09 15:34:07 @kchonyc @keunwoochoi @ylecun Algebraic digits! 2021-12-09 15:31:00 "not talking about the social fact of race and racism amounts to a kind of gaslighting, a denial of what is plainly evident in the social world around us" https://t.co/VaDE1ehtAb 2021-12-09 15:22:29 @Abebab Maybe the optimism can be that we now have tons of examples of what not to do now, alongside fairly cookie cutter examples of the racism and sexism of people with power in the AI world, and so at least for documentation purposes of the problems at play, we're doing well? 2021-12-09 04:21:46 @mjp39 Upon reflection, I don't know the difference either and can't explain my usage. =/ 2021-12-09 03:23:23 RT @Nikki_T: Here’s a Thread of Opportunities mentioned in the Tech Companies Who are Hiring @TwitterSpaces: 2021-12-09 03:08:32 @BayesForDays Looks like it was generated by a GAN. 2021-12-09 03:07:30 RT @emilymbender: Great metaphor from @YJernite re privacy issues with data scraped from the public internet: the problem when a needle in… 2021-12-09 03:07:27 RT @YJernite: Glad this metaphor landed And this is as good a time as any to direct people who want to read more about these issues to @… 2021-12-09 03:06:46 RT @alexhanna: I've been incredibly fortunate, and that was only possible with many, many mentors, friends, and supportive family, chosen a… 2021-12-08 21:59:11 RT @anoushnajarian: Join us for the Third Annual Women in AI Ignite @NeurIPSConf Everyone is welcome! NeurIPS meetup Boston https://t.c… 2021-12-08 20:19:22 @timnitGebru But super exciting for me and flattering! 2021-12-08 20:18:59 Won courage award(!?) Doing what anyone'd do in my position as witness to what Google did & https://t.co/X2uRScOKVy https://t.co/FWjucdizdN 2021-12-08 17:49:24 @cfiesler I used to have to correct people that I'm not a linguist. Now I have to correct people that I'm not an ethicist. I don't think I have ever been called a computer scientist by someone without my prompting. It's like there's such a cognitive bias it's a full on barrier. 2021-12-08 17:41:12 RT @weidingerlaura: PAPER'S OUT! Very excited that today we’re releasing our taxonomy of "Ethical and Social risks associated with Large L… 2021-12-08 17:40:52 @willie_agnew Oh wow, great news!!! 2021-12-08 17:40:44 RT @willie_agnew: We're hiring!! 2021-12-08 17:40:21 @Abebab So much this. 2021-12-08 17:34:48 @mcmillen "Some ... are more equal than others" 2021-12-08 17:31:04 If you're doing #NeurIPS2021 , I'm going to be hanging out with other awesome people involved in BigScience, talking about Big Sciencey things, in...half an hour? Oy. Wait is this in half an hour? https://t.co/YYAnyOSOOg 2021-12-08 17:25:35 @WiMLworkshop @NeurIPSConf @mariyaivasileva @Boyiliee @linh_trd @AmakaOraekwe @geeticka1 @MeeraDesai18 @siri_r @jieyuzhao11 @NanaYaaSally Thanks you guys! 2021-12-08 17:22:20 RT @rajiinio: In our upcoming paper, we use a children's picture book to explain how bizarre it is that ML researchers claim to measure "ge… 2021-12-08 05:40:32 RT @SashaMTL: For the past few months, @mmitchell_ai, @YJernite and I have been working on the exploration of popular NLP datasets. Here a… 2021-12-08 05:40:21 RT @YJernite: Since starting at @huggingface I've discovered that I love thinking about data, and building tools So it's been fantastic… 2021-12-07 23:57:17 The cool examples of our new tool have been being pulled out by @SashaMTL . Check some out below! https://t.co/wwVZ3J9ADL 2021-12-07 23:54:30 @SashaMTL @_nateraw @YJernite What she said! 2021-12-07 23:52:00 @timnitGebru, A Paullada, J D Viviano, Matt Gardner, @willie_agnew @anmarasovic, G Ilharco, Dirk Groeneveld, Lora Aroyo, V Prabhu, B Friedman, @ryandcotterell, Kaiyu Yang, O. Russakovsky, and so many others who have done critical work on building and measuring datasets. 2021-12-07 23:09:52 Annnnnnnnnd time for a drink. And a nap. https://t.co/HkTE8sd6oj 2021-12-07 23:07:26 Sorry to everyone I've not responded to for the past 2 weeks (literally everyone), I've been heads-down to an extreme extent, with very little sleep... 2021-12-07 23:06:01 Still a TON to do, but the basics are in place. We hope we can help to nudge AI development closer to a path of well-informed curation, analyses and documentation building tools like this. 2021-12-07 23:03:49 As well as @Thom_Wolf @qlhoest @_lewtun @GuggerSylvain @julien_c @julsimon @ClementDelangue @osanseviero for all of the backend infrastructure work and general guidance. 2021-12-07 23:01:00 ...And would not have been possible without the hair-on-fire-help-us-now-EVERYTHING-BROKE-AAAH work of @_nateraw and @pierrci, especially over this past weekend... 2021-12-07 22:57:22 We draw from recent work in Ethical/Responsible AI to provide a usable tool that (attempts to) implement some of the fundamental ideas. This includes research from @JesseDodge @rajiinio @emilymbender @cephaloponderer @alexhanna @Abebab @morganklauss A McMillan-Major, N Sambasivan 2021-12-07 22:47:56 Part of the goal here is to make it possible for **anyone** to develop and question datasets, directly, without needing an engineer in the process to run queries or wrangle compute infrastructure. This will hopefully lead to more mature dataset development. 2021-12-07 22:45:14 @evanmiltenburg Oh, so so much more to do. This just begins to scratch the surface. Our roadmap over the next year is jam-packed. But you can currently run comparisons in the v0 tool. 2021-12-07 22:42:56 There are also some (hopefully helpful) basics. Want to see the duplicates in a dataset? They're in the Duplicates widget. Turns out there is a ton of YouTube ads in Hate Speech 18. And "2508" (??) Seems that could be avoided using a tool like this to see what's up. =) https://t.co/Gv9gYH0HSy 2021-12-07 22:38:25 Curious abt whether a dataset is representative of natural language? Check out the Zipf widget, which fits data to an ideal natural language distribution. Even provides a parameter you can optimize if that's what gets your motor runnin'! Turns out Squad is relatively Zipfian. https://t.co/FR2xI6sjlD 2021-12-07 22:30:56 @huggingface Interested in understanding biases in your dataset? Check out our nPMI widget, which surfaces skews in the dataset towards different groups. Did you know that "man" was associated with comics and guns in Wikitext? That "cis" was associated with hockey? https://t.co/0sEbyULJxO 2021-12-07 22:19:49 !! Still under development -- this is our v0 -- but hopefully you can see what we're up to @huggingface . 2021-12-07 22:17:00 Super excited to announce the Data Measurements Tool! An open-source project (coded up personally by me, @YJernite, and @SashaMTL) for building, measuring, and comparing datasets -- no programming required! https://t.co/1yiC8LU2aD 2021-12-07 21:14:12 RT @cynthiablee: And who can't help but be curious to read the actual paper that got @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai fired from their jobs a… 2021-12-07 14:16:30 RT @mathbabedotorg: Hugely important settlement of a lawsuit against the terrible Value-Added Modeling for teachers. 2021-12-07 14:13:29 RT @timnitGebru: Thank you to the Guardian for publishing this opinion piece that I wrote. The title I had in mind was “To reduce the harms… 2021-12-07 06:03:52 RT @emilymbender: Thanks @bendee983 for this thoughtful coverage of our #NeurIPS2021 paper w/@rajiinio @amandalynneP @cephaloponderer and @… 2021-12-07 06:03:11 RT @anoushnajarian: Excited for our first poster Getting Started with Model Cards @WiMLworkshop #NeurIPSConf2021 with @LWH_Bos @elatihc Bri… 2021-12-07 06:03:08 @anoushnajarian @WiMLworkshop @LWH_Bos @elatihc @SParimalarangan @helenmakesstuff @RajasiDesai @MathWorks @fbam62 @timnitGebru @NeurIPSConf @MathWorksAI @MATLAB !!!!!! Awesome!! 2021-12-07 05:52:58 @Abebab https://t.co/G9eoLRB28e 2021-12-07 05:50:04 My first open source AI product...about to drop soon. --w @YJernite and @SashaMTL @huggingface 2021-12-06 14:24:11 I can even sing Flowers in the Dirt start to finish! Surely that will impress him! 2021-12-06 14:23:35 So.......can anyone here help me to meet Paul McCartney? It's been on my bucket list since I was 10. 2021-12-06 14:20:39 RT @BigscienceW: The BigScience Social at #NeurIPS2021 is happening this week on Wed, Dec 8th (6:00-9:00 pm UTC) with roundtable discussion… 2021-12-06 14:18:34 RT @timnitGebru: If you’re at @NeurIPSConf @cephaloponderer and I have this tutorial tomorrow (Monday). We will also be joined by @alexhann… 2021-12-06 14:12:59 @yoavgo +1 2021-12-06 14:12:49 RT @yoavgo: the quality of both audio and video in the Get Back beatles documentary is really impressive. what can you tell me about the ML… 2021-12-06 14:09:51 RT @Abebab: I love this paper so much 2021-12-06 01:19:03 @IfeomaOzoma Jealous!!! 2021-12-04 23:11:39 RT @kharijohnson: thx for sharing @timnitGebru We're just getting started but writers and supporters can visit https://t.co/GIFRPl5NIr to s… 2021-12-04 21:29:26 RT @timnitGebru: I have seen Cher work with & 2021-12-04 21:28:14 @pittrpatt @chelseyglasson To be fair tho, I don't like media attention centering on me personally...rather than on my work or what I'm trying to achieve...and I don't answer a lot of emails. So it's my fault that I'm not more active in the media. =/ 2021-12-04 20:52:52 RT @luke_stark: Folks, @WesternU is hiring a cluster of five Black scholars -- any rank or subject. Consider becoming my colleague @western… 2021-12-04 20:51:06 RT @HubscherTeresa: So excited that Louvere Walker is speaking at the Black in AI research workshop at NeurIPS! #shelovesmatlab #mathworks 2021-12-04 20:19:51 RT @annargrs: Also: we should have a community service hall of fame, and @JesseDodge should be there. He worked on this checklist ALL WEEK… 2021-12-03 23:55:06 @pittrpatt @chelseyglasson Woah! I hadn't noticed that. Love, Uni of Aberdeen (who's ever heard of that amirite?!) 2021-12-03 23:40:05 RT @LndmrkAcoustics: #ASA181 5aSC4 @rctatman "You can't algorithm your way out of a data problem." "All data problems boil down to mismatch… 2021-12-03 20:59:11 RT @TaliaRinger: Hi friends! I have a cool budding project with some folks at EleutherAI. We want to collect a large public atomic code edi… 2021-12-03 19:00:36 RT @tetisheri: If you’re in the NY area and looking to teach a tech and ethics course at NYU, please consider applying! I just finished tea… 2021-12-03 16:45:26 RT @JuliaAngwin: Critics have long suspected that predictive policing software was racially biased. Today, we have the answer: @themarkup… 2021-12-03 16:44:40 RT @AlphabetWorkers: Reminder that it's considered "ungoogley" to ask about holiday pay. "The biggest heartbreak to me was that I was 100%… 2021-12-03 16:41:40 RT @alexhanna: Wow! Honored that our paper with Bernie Koch, @cephaloponderer, and Jacob Foster won a best paper award at the NeurIPS Datas… 2021-12-03 16:30:16 RT @tejuafonja: I am not sure many people understand the enormous impact @DAIRInstitute will have on the continent, on the world. @timnitGe… 2021-12-03 16:26:59 @tracyfrey @caro_milanesi Thank you for recognizing! 2021-12-03 02:15:52 @amyjko I've largely stopped accepting reviewer invitations because for the past couple years, so many of the papers I had to review seemed more like term projects from undergrads rather than substantive work. It was a massive waste of time. 2021-12-03 02:08:38 RT @dlowd: It also works in YYYY-MM-DD format: 2021-12-02 2021-12-03 01:47:29 Congratulations to my former co-lead @timnitGebru on launching the DAIR institute today. =) Imagine! An AI center focusing on community, not exploitation So excited to see this come together. https://t.co/5QUtQR6Tng 2021-12-02 22:45:44 RT @Aaron_Horowitz: Nearly every paper @KLdivergence writes is basically a premonition that takes everyone else years to figure out. Listen… 2021-12-02 19:03:06 We're watching the erasure of @erikashimizu in real time. Journalists and people speaking publicly, it's on you not to fall into the One Alpha Hero archetypal narrative. https://t.co/w8MWFO5RYt 2021-12-02 19:00:24 @krotondo @erikashimizu There's always a strong pull for an Alpha hero narrative 2021-12-02 16:53:30 RT @lizthegrey: @chelseyglasson Yup. Pay folks who have already put their careers on the line. It's not hard. 2021-12-02 16:51:29 RT @chelseyglasson: I want to give a big hug and thanks to @erikashimizu for her advocacy and work which appears to continue to be erased b… 2021-12-01 20:38:40 Wow! https://t.co/g9BHw2wgYM 2021-12-01 20:36:51 RT @databoydg: Does fighting bias + racism in tech sound fun to you?!? If so, check out this interactive Thursday! https://t.co/6is06uqVH1 2021-12-01 20:36:34 RT @SashaMTL: This is amazing. 2021-12-01 20:34:31 @Abebab Me, @timnitGebru , and @cephaloponderer all had this moment of depressing realization too. 2021-11-30 17:19:24 @geomblog I JUST edited a piece saying this and called it out, haha. "Did you compute the growth rate of risk?!?! HOW I WANT TO DO THAT TOO!" 2021-11-30 17:16:44 RT @ekp: As you enjoy your holidays, consider taking a moment to think of those you can help and the debt you owe to those who came before… 2021-11-30 16:58:48 RT @rajiinio: Imagine working for the @ACLU as an "Algorithmic Justice Specialist" Please apply! 2021-11-30 16:56:11 RT @papertigerx_: A friend of mine sent me this and holy shit https://t.co/rrgSdqwhyN 2021-11-30 16:53:58 RT @KLdivergence: Algorithmic. Justice. Specialist. Apply! 2021-11-30 16:51:39 RT @chelseyglasson: I'm learning that part of the reason my trial continues to get pushed out is because Google is refusing to make certain… 2021-11-30 16:50:16 @chelseyglasson Also speaks to our ability to endure it for so long. It feels familiar or homey ir even like we deserve it. (Warning 2021-11-29 03:39:31 RT @chelseyglasson: Thrilled and thankful that @mmitchell_ai is joining @cherthedev and myself in advocating for @KarenKeiser1 and @LizBerr… 2021-11-27 22:52:38 RT @mdkill: @mmitchell_ai @NathanBowers This is one of those things that shocked me as I progressed as a manager who has never faced discri… 2021-11-27 18:03:48 RT @math_rachel: We need governments to: - fund ventilation upgrades for offices & - give everyone N95s - set indoor air quality st… 2021-11-27 18:02:19 RT @rajiinio: This was the most fun paper to write. I'm so happy we could leverage this analogy all the way to the end, aha. 2021-11-27 15:49:56 @IfeomaOzoma Yeah, that is the most amazing takeaway for me. Thank you so much for all of the work you put into shifting the entire industry. 2021-11-27 15:47:48 Fixing the problem requires organizations of people who are not reporting through to the company's CEO. 2021-11-27 15:47:18 The moral of the story here is this: If a tech company is publicly saying that it will take care of its own discrimination problems internally, they're not actually saying they'll work on seriously fixing the problem. 2021-11-27 15:40:52 Those of us who have been harmed by discrimination in tech regularly explain that HR is one of the main enablers of discrimination, and some directly responsible for it themselves. They are there to protect the company, and having legitimate complaints makes you a liability. 2021-11-27 15:39:31 "has created a formal process to escalate complaints of discrimination, harassment or retaliation involving members of the executive team or the board" More bureaucratic processes to interact with internal HR is another way to get yourself targeted by your company for expulsion. 2021-11-27 15:36:19 But isn't "acceptable use" a term referring to the platform itself, not the company within? 2021-11-27 15:35:57 "The company is updating its acceptable use policy to ban doxxing" I'm not surprised this was previously acceptable, but hard to see this as a great leap forward. It means Pinterest's stance was that it's ok to put a public bullseye on your colleagues for physical violence... 2021-11-27 14:47:12 "Pinterest has agreed to create an office of an ombudsman to respond to employee complaints." Who is the ombudsman beholden to? If the answer is "Pinterest" then this can mean at best nothing, but more worryingly, it can mean a way to target people with complaints. 2021-11-27 14:43:08 This might take the form of additional barriers to promotion that disproportionately harm tech minorities. 2021-11-27 14:42:21 "Will conduct a pay equity audit across gender and race twice a year and "take any steps necessary to maintain this equity'" --> 2021-11-27 14:40:57 I'm skeptical that this will amount to anything, though. Let me break it down a bit. 2021-11-27 14:34:44 RT @joyehoward: Now, what’s stopping other employers from releasing former employees who experienced discrimination from their NDAs? This s… 2021-11-27 14:33:57 A major win against discrimination in the unconsented battle tech has forced so many of us into. Thanks to @erikashimizu and @IfeomaOzoma . Is the only way to substantively change discrimination in tech via concern for investors? https://t.co/iw3TwKhCWx 2021-11-27 14:15:21 @IfeomaOzoma WOW!!! What is this reality?? Do you think their changes will include firing the top leaders who are the most alienating to tech minorities? Or just more "diversity training"? 2021-11-27 14:12:09 !! https://t.co/Dp9iFLEc3g 2021-11-27 14:10:25 RT @anoushnajarian: Dear friends, would love your recommendations for references on the history of #DEI (#diversity, #equity, #inclusion) i… 2021-11-27 14:10:16 @szhang_ds Yikes. 2021-11-27 14:09:11 RT @SashaMTL: For those looking to support #BoycottAmazon , https://t.co/84monkwghL is really the most amazing site for new and used books… 2021-11-27 14:07:13 @SashaMTL I didn't even THINK to worry about that!!! 2021-11-27 14:02:04 RT @TDataScience: "I think it's important to realize that technology is not apolitical." @mmitchell_ai has spent years forcefully advocatin… 2021-11-26 21:09:12 RT @MelMitchell1: This is such a perfect metaphor for AI. (From https://t.co/ZFaaO3cuL3) https://t.co/9vNzSiPOtY 2021-11-26 10:29:22 RT @Abebab: Following our work on issues w/ multimodal datasets (https://t.co/N1Sb1nPTEK), a question that keeps appearing is how such a ma… 2021-11-24 18:58:26 Great article on the work of @IfeomaOzoma, who is such a force in stopping the rampant discrimination in tech right now. One of the people I respect the most this year. She is a pivotal part of this puzzle. A Tech Whistle-Blower Helps Others Speak Out https://t.co/TUlGTboFLa 2021-11-24 18:49:39 RT @cherthedev: I am extremely grateful for the network of whistleblowers, but especially for @IfeomaOzoma. She guided me in bringing #Sile… 2021-11-24 18:48:00 Someone made one of those cool idea-board art posters from the talk I gave at the course launch!!! https://t.co/cnhg6ygSS8 2021-11-24 00:38:53 This is a good overview of the tech activism that has been going on at different tech companies from @AngelAuYeung . https://t.co/kWG7kB1ZR9 2021-11-23 17:54:37 RT @chelseyglasson: "They chose to conduct an 'investigation' - none of us were spoken with." The more stories I hear the more obvious it… 2021-11-23 17:44:50 This is strategically really well done by @cherthedev, pinpointing public false & https://t.co/SV0XesIE3B 2021-11-23 03:46:57 RT @krvarshney: Happy Thanksgiving! Just posted chapter 16 of my book. Only 2 more chapters to write! This chapter is "Lived Experience". I… 2021-11-23 03:46:49 @krvarshney Thank you!! 2021-11-23 03:46:33 RT @krvarshney: “People with marginalized characteristics—so people who had experienced discrimination—had a deeper understanding of the ki… 2021-11-23 00:19:14 Another impressive article from @_KarenHao walking through how misinformation is incentivized ar ad-based companies (FB Google). Worse: The promises of improvements are limited to high-resource languages 2021-11-23 00:03:22 RT @SashaMTL: I'm so happy that @rachelmetz included the dog poop example in her explanation of #algorithms : https://t.co/0kVEW1NG6s But a… 2021-11-22 07:10:46 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: We are so very excited that after a wonderful edition at #EMNLP 2021, We will be back at #EMNLP 2022! Cheers to a wid… 2021-11-20 22:43:44 RT @RainofTerra: Hey folks! This is a thread on the National Labor Relations Board and how settlements can work. Cher (a friend & 2021-11-20 19:49:33 @windx0303 @tknearem Omg, this appeared right next to this tweet from @mark_riedl. https://t.co/h7xIHAuQRm 2021-11-20 19:47:57 @_alialkhatib When things like this are posed as insurmountable/time consuming, it can just mean that there's an (S)VP at the top who has to be convinced. (And if the suggestion isn't coming from the right "type" of person for the SVP, that can be a brick wall.) 2021-11-20 19:42:55 RT @haldaume3: i see you @naaclmeeting and @icmlconf papers! 2021-11-20 19:42:11 "I don’t think anybody wants us to be in the business of forcing some sort of social engineering of people’s voices...[and also] we don’t want amplification of...toxic content or unfair political bias" -- @ruchowdh Good example of tensions you work with in the ethical ai space. https://t.co/oCJyZo1bM3 2021-11-20 19:32:22 RT @johnpavlovitz: Guns don't kill people, white people taking the law into their own hands kill people. 2021-11-20 19:32:15 RT @docmilanfar: Stochastic gradient descent https://t.co/VvzthIIXyF 2021-11-20 19:27:07 RT @luke_stark: I'll be honest: I disagree fairly strongly with the overall framing of the documentary (and could have done without Ray Kur… 2021-11-20 19:25:07 @mark_riedl I loved that one so much. 2021-11-20 19:22:52 @vnfrombucharest Nouns do. People even confuse what a sentence is with nouns. Compare: "The cat is sitting while contemplating the universe" (sentence) "The sitting cat contemplating the universe" (noun phrase) 2021-11-20 07:38:08 RT @lawrennd: @arnosolin As a scientist, I've been tracing the source of the bib formatting problems. It seems Google scholar is producin… 2021-11-20 07:36:17 RT @MalaikaJabali: Many of us use the term “criminal legal system” instead of “criminal justice,” because what is legal is not the same as… 2021-11-20 07:34:00 RT @yayitsamyzhang: A labor of love mainly led and carried out by @_robertkirk, so it’s not tooting my own horn to tell you this is the go-… 2021-11-20 03:43:56 @MelMitchell1 Yeah. It's not even language per se, it's character strings. 2021-11-20 03:42:12 RT @MelMitchell1: Sticking my neck out here, but..... I don't understand why people think machines could possibly learn common sense from… 2021-11-20 03:42:00 RT @emilymbender: "AI" can NOT: * Predict who will commit a crime "AI" can: * Make biased policing look "objective" https://t.co/bwGjDnr6… 2021-11-20 03:41:54 RT @vinodkpg: Congrats @sayan__ghosh for winning a best paper award at the EMNLP #wnut workshop (https://t.co/YvlNvo1lrK) for our paper… 2021-11-20 03:41:30 @annaeveryday I feel this. 2021-11-20 03:35:50 RT @kharijohnson: A reminder for whoever needs to hear it RN that you can find beautiful imaginings of a different future at the #afrofutur… 2021-11-20 03:35:32 RT @JannekeParrish: I cannot emphasise enough how much a statement like this matters. Telling workers they can communicate "internally or e… 2021-11-19 22:24:11 RT @CaseyNewton: What if tech companies didn’t fire their ethical AI researchers or hide from their findings? Twitter is trying! I spoke wi… 2021-11-19 22:22:31 RT @mjp39: the three republicans are a sex offender, a white supremacist, and a hitler enthusiast. 2021-11-19 22:22:06 RT @chelseyglasson: Here's a recording of public remarks I recently gave via an Alphabet Workers Union event regarding some of my experienc… 2021-11-19 22:21:45 RT @alexhanna: First thing I saw was that White Supremacy was trending, which, well, story of America. 2021-11-19 22:21:27 RT @_alialkhatib: i don't know what there is to say that isn't both obvious to every person of color in america and utterly incomprehensibl… 2021-11-19 22:21:19 RT @Sifill_LDF: What a terrible, awful truth about this country has been confirmed (again) today. 2021-11-19 22:20:18 Turning the tide on the inappropriate tech interviewing practices that screen out basically everyone but those who already feel they belong. vv https://t.co/q43d6sg1GQ 2021-11-19 17:00:59 RT @emilymbender: A little slow on the report-back this time, but a few days ago I enjoyed this episode of @RadicalAIPod with @schock. One… 2021-11-19 16:58:25 RT @abhi1thakur: All AutoNLP-trained models already track carbon emissions! 2021-11-19 16:56:24 RT @SashaMTL: @marjoripomarole @julien_c @abhi1thakur @mmitchell_ai @huggingface You can read more about code carbon here : https://t.co/6Y… 2021-11-19 16:56:03 Energy consumption and carbon emissions now integrated into the ML model documentation at @huggingface . Step by step, guys! We're moving the needle on what it means to create and share AI models. vvv https://t.co/1jxGK8F7Cq 2021-11-18 22:08:53 RT @timnitGebru: Please call Egyptian consulates in your location (e.g list for US https://t.co/f7jivP0GRt) & 2021-11-18 22:08:36 RT @timnitGebru: Congratulations. So much respect to journalists covering this amidst such a targeted campaign against them and threats aga… 2021-11-18 22:04:18 @baxterkb @salesforce @pdgoldman @yschlesinger @data_beth @thorendor @emilyewitt @fatemehx2 @RachelMGillum @FlyFazFly @KrisWoolery @leahkoshiyama @robertkatz @xtinazhang @OryJay @jessehausler @oloogu OEHU! Great photo. =) 2021-11-18 20:27:30 RT @reworkdl: We are delighted that @baxterkb from @salesforce will be joining us at the #AIEthics Summit. Kathy will share advice and reco… 2021-11-18 17:16:28 @kdphd (that's not what Sorelle was talking about, that's my own journalistic addition) 2021-11-18 17:15:58 Now @kdphd is closing up. Did you know if you click on a live stream, hearts appear?!?! https://t.co/W6zhHKBlIa 2021-11-18 17:02:19 Live now!! With @kathytpham @lizjosullivan @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan @senykam and Pamela Wisniewski!! Watch it watch it! https://t.co/G4MKtGTcPj 2021-11-18 16:43:15 RT @olliemilman: this remains the best - and probably most accurate - oil industry advert https://t.co/lwG20y0WPf https://t.co/OMER3Ordnw 2021-11-18 16:37:48 It's my birthday! On this day 1 yr ago, Google began its attack against me & Fernando Pereira. 2021-11-17 23:25:04 @camillefrancois @NianticLabs Congratulations!! They are lucky to have you. 2021-11-17 23:21:16 @JannekeParrish @cherthedev Wise move, see you on the other side. 2021-11-17 22:44:06 @dlowd 2021-11-17 18:10:33 @ruthstarkman @Abebab Once it starts flying, maybe @tsimonite will cover it. (Does it fly yet?) https://t.co/ucRJ8aFdfP 2021-11-17 18:03:25 @ruthstarkman @Abebab AAAAAAAAAAAAAH 2021-11-17 17:40:37 It shouldn't be okay to engage in ceaseless trauma to retaliate against a woman because she spoke up that she was undergoing discrimination at your company. But this is legal. https://t.co/FkY8AFSaTE 2021-11-17 17:38:05 RT @moritzhueper: "Machine learning development isn't value neutral" @mmitchell_ai on Values in ML Development. #MachineLearning #ethicsIn… 2021-11-17 17:37:38 It's coming..... The first open-source tool from my team @huggingface -- with @YJernite and @SashaMTL https://t.co/5Zks9tb3Uv 2021-11-17 14:00:06 RT @mcmillen: Co-signed. At Google, "assume good intent" meant an endless stream of dudes who were "just asking questions" on every thread… 2021-11-17 13:57:39 RT @UpFromTheCracks: @mer__edith @ambaonadventure @gleemie @nantarsya @NicoleEWeber @sarahbmyers just sharing the pdf which has a little… 2021-11-17 05:27:18 RT @MichaelaNewell_: @RadioNational⁩ with ⁦@mmitchell_ai⁩ who was hired by Google to inject ethics into their AI program- and was then sack… 2021-11-16 21:22:58 @timnitGebru Ugh, examples of what it's like to fail at inclusion. =/ Ive been responding to some to say my rate is $400/hr, and won't meet to "discuss" first...that discussion is also $400/hr. I think people get offended, but I've started to be offended they didn't offer in the first place. 2021-11-16 19:45:49 RT @mer__edith: New paper! In which I work through a lot of my uncomfortable observations since joining academia, examining the alarming-b… 2021-11-16 19:45:29 @sebgehr @k_saifullaah Exactly! 2021-11-16 18:10:37 RT @k_saifullaah: .@mmitchell_ai's idea of "Best Evaluation Award" or "Best Analysis of Input Data Award" sounds amazing! Conferences shoul… 2021-11-16 02:46:23 @ashleygjovik Yeah....it's direct trauma. 2021-11-16 02:43:13 RT @schock: Mar Hicks (@histoftech), Author of Programmed Inequality, is writing a "prehistory of transgender algorithmic bias." Follow th… 2021-11-16 02:41:39 RT @csdoctorsister: To non-coding tech folks: this is an example of the mess us anti-racist, liberatory data/CS practitioners are up agains… 2021-11-16 02:36:40 RT @schock: Good morning! It's #TransAwarenessWeek. I'm a trans researcher, designer, and technologist, working on how we might reimagine t… 2021-11-16 02:35:33 RT @histoftech: “A Black woman who feared for her safety creates a system. A white guy develops an iteration of this system later because h… 2021-11-16 02:33:13 @cherthedev Congratulations! 2021-11-16 02:32:31 I think the problem is that when you're at the institution long enough, you actually believe your personal convictions are the narratives that serve the institution. https://t.co/JM1ftszmlB 2021-11-16 02:30:15 RT @timnitGebru: A few days ago, @ssrc_org launched its new #JustTech Fellowship: 2-year, full-time fellowship offering $100K+/yr to suppor… 2021-11-16 02:29:01 RT @math_rachel: "Who benefits from data sharing in Africa? What barriers exist in the data sharing ecosystem, and for whom? If much of the… 2021-11-16 02:26:21 @szhang_ds Thank you for doing it!! 2021-11-16 02:22:01 @complingy @EmmaSManning I'd think of it as a zero conjuct in that case, no? (Or perhaps the conjunct is "cetera"). 2021-11-15 22:56:49 @BakerBdb @emilymbender It's because they don't care, I believe, until there is media attention. 2021-11-15 22:53:42 No, if you are not a human, but rather a translation system, that word is not yours. https://t.co/AP56z5hb9d 2021-11-15 22:51:06 RT @FAccTConference: We are committed to ensuring that no-one will be unable to present their work at the in-person conference due to re… 2021-11-15 22:50:32 RT @rctatman: If you work in NLP (or want to) please read this. If, like I do, you think that this is a clear misuse of technology and yo… 2021-11-15 16:55:17 I was indeed called names like "selfish" and "aggressive" by my first manager at Google. https://t.co/53VFX0pmDc 2021-11-15 16:53:49 RT @MiaD: This highlights why @WomeninAIEthics decouples diversity in tech from ethics of AI/tech. Women especially BIPOC deserve equal opp… 2021-11-15 16:51:02 RT @math_rachel: Affective computing is less about capturing existing emotional states than positing them. It defines particular emotional… 2021-11-15 16:01:13 Great icebreaker to fit in at parties! https://t.co/tDSACgUugb 2021-11-15 15:57:54 RT @AlondraNelson46: The Biden-Harris Administration issued a memorandum recognizing Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge as one of… 2021-11-15 15:51:37 RT @_alialkhatib: i'll be speaking at Columbia's Race + Data Science lecture series this Wednesday (1p ET)! info/reg: https://t.co/5ROOjts… 2021-11-15 15:49:52 I'm teaching at this today. https://t.co/1cTFDZRzjh 2021-11-15 15:48:53 @chelseyglasson Thank you for continuing to document what this is like. It's an example for everyone to learn from. What Google does is psychological abuse that they drag out for years--and all because they discriminate against you. Manipulation of the legal system to try to destroy the victim. 2021-11-15 15:45:07 RT @chelseyglasson: The exec named in my lawsuit was paid a severance to retire early from Google, so she has the leisure time to attend to… 2021-11-15 15:44:35 RT @rajiinio: I was fortunate to act as a technical advisor for this report & So excited to see as the… 2021-11-14 19:54:24 RT @andrewthesmart: this is enraging. 2021-11-14 19:29:30 RT @charleswlogan: "No amount of advances in technology will change the basic truth that surveillance and carceral technology exist to serv… 2021-11-14 19:28:59 RT @AlecStapp: Fix your labor shortage with this one weird trick https://t.co/x5tJVJv3U2 2021-11-14 19:23:29 RT @KateArthur_ca: My 18yr old daughter « one thing I really hate about being in Computer Science is that I now see how terrible most compa… 2021-11-14 19:20:55 @Abebab Prob the peer reviewers were just as ignorant. 2021-11-14 19:19:21 @Abebab "all stupid claims about AGI eventually lead to Kurzweil" is good basic AI advice. 2021-11-14 19:15:39 @z3dster This is a really great thread, thank you for it! 2021-11-14 19:11:39 @IfeomaOzoma @alexhanna I'm so sorry you had to put up with that shit. They didn't deserve you. The general public is very lucky to have you. 2021-11-14 19:09:53 @IfeomaOzoma @alexhanna Sounds about right. And I imagine that investigation was basically trying to gather evidence that you were wrong and destroying any evidence that would suggest you were right. 2021-11-14 02:39:12 RT @antonyjfunnell: Technology: ethics and fairness - https://t.co/sUgmAngqmu… Download this week's Future Tense podcast featuring @mmitche… 2021-11-13 22:48:05 @luke_stark @alexhanna In my case it was wrt my specific work duties but still I was only able to really get help scrubbing my personal info via trans community. It's really, really hard for me to distinguish between actions and inactions Google has taken vs what a misogynist/trans-ogynist would do. 2021-11-13 22:43:34 RT @XandaSchofield: So glad @BastingsJasmijn brought this up. I'm deeply concerned that we're not seeing communication or implementation fo… 2021-11-13 22:42:41 RT @QueerinAI: We have had a lot of new followers lately (crossed over 5000)! You can join our QueerInAI slack community, volunteer for our… 2021-11-13 22:10:22 RT @rajiinio: Also - with @AndrewYNg's recent "data-centric AI" push, it can be easy to forget the diverse voices that had spoken up about… 2021-11-13 22:10:13 RT @rajiinio: We just published an extended version of the Data & Data has always been a c… 2021-11-12 23:45:44 @evanmiltenburg Thank you for the shout-out!! 2021-11-12 23:38:00 RT @soldni: Do you know that you can donate to @QueerinAI’s AWESOME graduate school financial aid program here: https://t.co/rpiudE9bUE ?!… 2021-11-12 23:37:25 RT @evanmiltenburg: This call for bids is still open! I’ve seen some discussion on Twitter already, but no concrete bids. Given that last… 2021-11-12 21:11:41 RT @WomeninAIEthics: Join us on Twitter Spaces tomorrow, Nov 12 (11:30am PT, 2:30pm ET) for a open discussion on Facebook, Google, & 2021-11-12 21:11:31 RT @AuschwitzMuseum: @TaliaRinger Thank you for following us. See our e-lessons: https://t.co/5GqOAoIj0q & 2021-11-12 21:10:11 RT @amandalynneP: The new and improved version of "Data and its (dis)contents" is published at @Patterns_CP today! Co-authored with @rajiin… 2021-11-12 21:09:59 RT @emilymbender: This collaboration is one of my favorite things to come out of Twitter. Such interesting discussions with @amandalynneP @… 2021-11-12 18:59:12 @npparikh @KLdivergence If I had to use a US cheese name for paneer, I would choose "mozarella" over "cottage cheese".... 2021-11-12 18:58:04 @KLdivergence Hard agree. 2021-11-12 18:54:04 RT @ncpwg_org: This is gigantic news for those of us who have been struggling with Google Scholar preserving deadnamed versions of our work… 2021-11-12 16:46:00 In this interview, I talked about why AI ethics is hard in big tech companies, and how they need to be modernized. Starts at 19:20. This is a rare interview I did that I like 2021-11-12 16:42:28 I was on Australia's version of NPR/BBC! Which is called ABC. I talked about recent trends in fruit consumption! Jk I talked about AI ethics. https://t.co/USUSfatGGb 2021-11-12 16:23:34 RT @alexhanna: Important first steps for Google Scholar and deadnaming, hopefully more coming soon. Big shouout to @BastingsJasmijn @vinodk… 2021-11-11 20:06:10 I love how much @WiNLPWorkshop is doing (and has done!) for the ACL community. Remember that if you're part of an underrepresented group in NLP, and esp. if you've felt alienated or alone, we're here. =) https://t.co/a8blwC3SfQ 2021-11-11 19:14:55 RT @arsemabb: “Social Media platforms not only aren’t regulated, as every consumer product and service is, they don’t follow their own rule… 2021-11-11 19:13:46 RT @FAccTConference: BIG NEWS! THE FACCT DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED! New dates: Abstract submission: 15 December 2021 Paper submis… 2021-11-11 17:52:02 Hello! Are you a computer vision person who codes and is looking for an internship and is not annoyed by ethical thinking? Apply please. https://t.co/yvOjAfB6UK 2021-11-11 17:09:06 @sbjinsfo @Google hehe 2021-11-11 17:07:16 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: How to write a good review, by @anas_ant. Step one: Make sure you're qualified to review the paper! If you're not, say s… 2021-11-11 17:00:29 RT @EdCDCS: Don't miss the first event in the new Technomoral Conversations series on Tues 7 December, hosted by @CentreTMFutures and featu… 2021-11-11 17:00:07 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: Welcome to Dr. Manuel Montes of Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), México. He will be pres… 2021-11-11 16:56:15 RT @davidschlangen: From what I have seen so far, it looks like the “Ours” model is still going strong at #EMNLP2021 , more than a year lat… 2021-11-11 16:54:34 RT @ruchowdh: Since we are all debating what an algorithm is, good time to resurface this piece @KLdivergence and I wrote : https://t.co/E… 2021-11-11 16:53:32 RT @GoldsmithsLaw: Last week we welcomed @DeepMind’s @wsisaac and @IasonGabriel to Goldsmiths, for our ‘AI, Disruptive Tech and the Law’ LL… 2021-11-11 16:53:08 RT @ruthstarkman: Honoring for our student veterans who are a diverse group including many FLI students, many with children and great resp… 2021-11-11 16:50:55 RT @Sifill_LDF: At critical moments @NAACP_LDF defended Black soldiers against discrimination and racist violence. It’s an important histor… 2021-11-11 16:37:12 RT @NeurIPSConf: #NeurIPS2021 Tutorials: Timnit Gebru @timnitGebru (Black in AI) and Emily Denton @cephaloponderer (Google), will be giving… 2021-11-11 03:19:30 @baxterkb @kaliouby @alicexiang @HaniyehMah @brainstorm_ai Thank you so much for sharing! 2021-11-11 03:18:40 I was reaally honored and privileged to do a thing with @kaliouby, @alicexiang, @HaniyehMah where we talked about the battle against systems of bias in tech for C-suites & You can even watch some it at the video on top. https://t.co/4DzMQuoMZg 2021-11-11 02:02:20 RT @baxterkb: So much brilliance on one stage! @kaliouby, @mmitchell_ai, @alicexiang, @HaniyehMah! @brainstorm_ai #AIethics #womenInAIethi… 2021-11-10 20:19:34 RT @lizjosullivan: Incredibly honored and excited to be representing Industry alongside a rockstar lineup of academics, advocates at an upc… 2021-11-10 20:18:48 @ruthstarkman Nice!! Looks amazing! 2021-11-10 20:01:28 @andrewthesmart @HNSGR Maybe he's faking it and he's secretly from Bristol! 2021-11-10 19:41:30 RT @timnitGebru: “It’s such a homogenous field, and people in that field don’t see that maybe what they’re doing could be criticized,” said… 2021-11-10 19:41:23 RT @timnitGebru: Interesting article by @ReedAlbergotti. In a 1994 paper, published a year before the launches of Yahoo, Amazon and eBay,… 2021-11-10 19:39:09 Why are so many tech journalists English? Every time I meet a new one, they are English. 2021-11-10 17:16:06 @IfeomaOzoma @ZoeSchiffer Hate me and/or be a misogynist (Playboy interviews for the Brain guys was his thing as well) 2021-11-10 17:15:19 @IfeomaOzoma @ZoeSchiffer Yes! Like Jason Friedenfelds, the guy in charge of PR for me and all other researchers at Google, could have hated me personally and decide to blast dirty laundry about me all over the world, but still be happy as a clam because he could do it behind the megaphone of "Google". 2021-11-10 17:05:04 RT @ShannonVallor: This just hurts. 2021-11-10 17:04:31 RT @emilymbender: .@timnitGebru to @tomsimonite at @WIRED: "AI needs to slow down. “We haven’t had the time to think about how it should… 2021-11-10 00:40:28 @ruthstarkman @timnitGebru @Stanford Uggggh that's insane. 2021-11-10 00:39:35 @KevinKaichuang @SMukherjee89 Chris Quirk and (formerly) Jacob Devlin. They def hire men into high research positions even without PhDs! 2021-11-09 22:26:14 RT @WIRED: When asked if he has spoken to the big tech CEOs, Prince Harry says he had emailed Twitter CEO @jack . "I warned Jack that a cou… 2021-11-09 22:22:05 It's not (just) about helping women you see as below you from a position of your presumed superiority. It's about speaking up against the marginalization and erasure of the women around you -- the women who very likely should be much higher up in the hierarchy than they are. https://t.co/pwmRxZVYlp 2021-11-09 21:57:37 This is a key issue in data governance vvv https://t.co/TXKKr10v1v 2021-11-09 21:46:31 RT @timnitGebru: Here, I also mentioned that I heard @ruha9 say this. I believe she was quoting Miriam Makeba unless I'm mistaken. https://… 2021-11-09 21:43:26 Way to go @emilymbender and @mohitban47!!! Dream team for ACL, I'm so excited for you to be in leadership positions. ACL will be better for it!! https://t.co/41Zf12Wkbj https://t.co/v0Tc1hjCq2 2021-11-09 13:24:31 @TaliaRinger For the record and to be clear, I am not against working with governments, including the defense sides of governments, but there's so much work to do on auditability and accountability in partnerships like this. 2021-11-09 13:21:22 @TaliaRinger Hahaha. I think that Sundar has been steadily canning and making examples out of (or otherwise exhausting into quitting) everyone who might highlight issues with helping the U.S. military without any ethical guard rails, so now it's smooth-sailin'. 2021-11-09 13:17:46 If you're interested in learning more about the impacts of algorithmic bias, particularly towards communities of color, then this session looks like an incredible one to go to. Has @timnitGebru @Combsthepoet @DataSciBae @MiaD who are all so empowering and so good to learn from. https://t.co/pNI3HJSKrK 2021-11-09 13:06:22 @ellenberrey @alexhanna Looking forward to learning more! 2021-11-09 13:04:22 FaceSpace!! Have been playing with these, they are way too fun (and easy to do/use...) https://t.co/14JET0zZVL 2021-11-09 13:02:46 Oooooo survey rating scales are too underapprecated in NLP, but so important, his looks cool! from @_dmh and @verena_rieser (Also, controversial opinion: it's pronounced /ˈlɪk.ərt/) https://t.co/C6VultzSKv 2021-11-09 12:59:43 RT @davidschlangen: Great keynote by @ev_fedorenko at #EMNLP2021 , presenting a mass of evidence for the hypothesis that "the comp goal of… 2021-11-09 12:57:32 RTing for OpenAI folks I know and also everyone in BANH MI (Baidu Apple Nvidia Huawei Microsoft Intel) https://t.co/y5gjgt0ah2 2021-11-09 12:52:16 RT @elgreco_winter: Organized by the amazing Mona Diab! YOU DON'T NEED TO BE REGISTERED FOR EMNLP 2021 What: 1st Global Women in NLP meeti… 2021-11-09 12:51:54 @tsimonite Maybe we'll get flying feet first! 2021-11-09 12:49:41 @SashaMTL I walked by a Target on Nov 1st to see if I could buy discount weird halloween stuff and it was already Christmas in there. =/ 2021-11-09 12:48:46 @Abebab Nah, if you're body is saying chill, you can just chill. Unless you have to do taxes. Then there's no escape. https://t.co/6agenbGQ2m 2021-11-09 12:46:14 Check this out if you have time, you can go! @alexhanna is my former teammate, Google's first social scientist research scientist, and does incredible work. ...Also my partner finds her more relatable than me (at least on Twitter). https://t.co/qhUPNDwJX3 2021-11-09 12:41:02 RT @haleyhaala: Sitting at a table with scholars from Argentina, Mexico, India, Tunis/Japan, Benin, Nigeria, and more talking in Spanglish… 2021-11-08 22:58:05 At talk w Andrew Ng Please, please, when you're famous, don't erase work of everyone before you. Give credit where due. 2021-11-08 22:27:03 @ZoeSchiffer WOW CONGRATULATIONS!!! Well deserved!! 2021-11-08 22:26:15 RT @kaliouby: Let’s talk #bias and the battle to make responsible #AI with @DataRobot’s @HaniyehMah, @mmitchell_ai and @Sony’s @alicexiang… 2021-11-08 22:26:12 @kaliouby @DataRobot @HaniyehMah @Sony @alicexiang @brainstorm_ai @FortuneMagazine < Thank you for being such a great moderator! 2021-11-08 22:25:54 @HaniyehMah @kaliouby @alicexiang It was great being there with you! 2021-11-08 21:14:13 RT @thamar_solorio: Exclusively For WOMEN by WOMEN! Hopefully you can all make it! Spread the word! YOU DON'T NEED TO BE REGISTERED FOR… 2021-11-08 21:03:54 RT @kaliouby: 1/2 There is an important difference between diversity & 2021-11-08 21:03:39 RT @kirstenelloyd: When we talk about ethics in #AI, we’re talking about getting human-aligned values into the systems. Great panel on #Res… 2021-11-08 21:03:06 RT @SVPR_Sweetheart: Addressing bias in #AI panel: @mmitchell_ai points to her #Google exit as show the need for more #diversity & 2021-11-08 18:22:26 RT @SashaMTL: New profile pic, who dis? (https://t.co/dVymd85wuB is really good!!) https://t.co/weWtfetXZl 2021-11-08 18:21:52 @SashaMTL @Abebab https://t.co/dnXRayR7m3 2021-11-08 14:21:24 RT @hardmaru: This reminds me of what I like about research. I'm more interested in research that tries to solve problems that had not bee… 2021-11-08 14:18:41 RT @DrJDrooghaag: Building culture by @garyvee! #leadership #garyvee @archonsec @cajunAA @fogle_shane @supplychnqueen @psb_dc @netzpalav… 2021-11-07 20:10:08 I'm really happy to be joined full time @huggingface by Sasha Luccioni @SashaMTL!! Want to join our team too? We're on a mission to make dataset development a real thing in AI, and to make tools available for stuff like tracking waste and climate change. Come be with us! https://t.co/pQGmaFqOUM 2021-11-07 20:05:20 RT @barbara_plank: who would have guessed this? The biggest source in C4 is patents text.. need more such insightful data papers - now pre… 2021-11-07 12:58:28 @TaliaRinger Oh my god! 2021-11-07 12:56:23 RT @ShannonVallor: Friendly reminder that we are hiring for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Phil of Technology ⁦@UoE_Philosophy⁩, closes D… 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-08-21 14:25:36 RT @Abebab: values and ethics are not a whole separate endeavour tho. the very activity of data cleaning is inherently an act that requires… 2021-08-21 13:26:19 RT @Miles_Brundage: Me and lots of others right now https://t.co/h8JX32VW3X 2021-08-21 13:21:24 @Miles_Brundage Hahahaha 2021-08-20 23:33:45 RT @haleemakshah: “To be an Afghan woman is to be exploited—by lawmakers, photographers, and white women in power.” ⁦@theronalisa⁩ https:/… 2021-08-20 01:59:33 RT @ClareAngelyn: "I'm kind of aghast." -me But really. #Shotspotter fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of "ground truth" data & 2021-08-20 01:36:22 @andrewthesmart I think part of the point he's making is that as the language abilities of NLP models are seeming more and more human, NLP researchers ARE opining on the models' linguistic knowledge, and maybe these thoughts could be a bit better informed. 2021-08-20 01:14:19 Interesting piece from Marco. "If radical changes in the underlying architecture [of NLP models] are not motivated by linguistic considerations...it is hard to take this work seriously from the perspective of linguistic theorizing." https://t.co/xTiul8l5g3 2021-08-20 01:04:15 @ashleygjovik =( =( =( 2021-08-19 19:49:23 @ashutoshk2401 @nsaphra You could start here to get a sense. "Nadella suggested that the “system” would reward their work. In the apology, Nadella said he was “completely wrong.”" https://t.co/UJwD5iUBco 2021-08-19 17:54:06 RT @emilymbender: If we are actually going to address the harms of pattern recognition at scale (& 2021-08-19 17:53:38 RT @emilymbender: What are we gaining by doing that? What are the questions we are trying to answer and why are they worth the resources we… 2021-08-19 17:53:24 RT @emilymbender: What would an enormous, publicly funded "foundation model" help us peer into? What happens when you pile up so much text… 2021-08-19 14:44:13 @milesosborne @nsaphra Hahahha. 2021-08-19 14:43:41 @nsaphra Just do good work and you'll be recognized. 2021-08-19 14:41:48 @SashaMTL @YJernite @Thom_Wolf It's wonderful working with you! 2021-08-18 23:05:06 RT @multilingualmag: By halting the publication of the paper by @timnitGebru et al, tech institutions are insinuating this ethical problem… 2021-08-18 18:43:35 Useful thread if you're watching what's happening in Afghanistan with horror and helplessness. "follow and amplify the voices, work, and initiatives of Afghan activists, leaders, journalists, artists, and researchers" and advocate for ways your country/orgs can help. https://t.co/eXTBDT5E7W 2021-08-18 14:35:49 RT @Sifill_LDF: What Donald Trump offered was the freedom to be your worst self. And it turns out many Americans have been waiting for the… 2021-08-18 14:29:07 RT @carolinesinders: i know i'm late to the game in this (as it was published in april) but i really enjoyed this article on emotion recogn… 2021-08-17 22:24:55 @BlancheMinerva @mer__edith @StanfordAILab Oh and BigScience is. That's all volunteer based. https://t.co/v2d7YqsfJa 2021-08-17 22:23:58 @BlancheMinerva @mer__edith @StanfordAILab I wonder if AI2 is? 2021-08-17 19:08:59 RT @johnpavlovitz: John Lewis has left us America. May we work for those on the horizon of history. May we be steadfast in making the Ameri… 2021-08-17 19:06:39 @msweeny @math_rachel @_KarenHao @_beenkim @daphnehk @CriticalAI @BU_Computing @yudapearl @Montreal_AI @GaryMarcus @frossi_t @timnitGebru Thank you for including me! =) 2021-08-17 19:00:39 @mer__edith Yuh, was debating whether to go, then decided it would probably be better for me to be there, e.g., as a buzkill rather than not. I already warned them that my talk was likely to be depressing/stressful in the context of the workshop, hehe. 2021-08-17 15:22:27 RT @math_rachel: 5 Myths of Co-Design for Ethical ML - ‘Better’ involvement 'better’ design outcomes - Co-design increases agency of pati… 2021-08-17 15:19:26 @ashleygjovik @suicicoo @ziromr That's a problem when you're a woman in tech. My read is that you have to be silent, docile, and/or peppy, and the more you stray from this the more miserable your work life becomes. 2021-08-17 15:15:35 RT @math_rachel: 11 Short Videos About AI Ethics https://t.co/U8gSlUxdeG 2021-08-17 15:06:25 RT @jovialjoy: I was honored to receive the 2019 @VitalVoices Power to Empower award which continues to support @AJLUnited. Today, use your… 2021-08-17 00:48:45 @rajiinio @jovialjoy @timnitGebru Yayaay!! 2021-08-16 13:21:28 RT @BigscienceW: The BigScience Carbon Footprint working group update: @SashaMTL with A Practical Guide to Quantifying Carbon Emissions h… 2021-08-16 13:19:10 @ashleygjovik Auuugh what?!?! 2021-08-15 03:22:14 @VidaVakil @BEBischof @huggingface @ClementDelangue I imagine there will be! 2021-08-15 02:48:23 RT @DrAndrewThaler: Happy 109 anniversary to this little nugget of an article. We've known what the problem is for over a century. https://… 2021-08-14 23:30:01 RT @SashaMTL: I'm digging deep on the #carbonfootprint of manufacturing computing hardware for #MachineLearning (namely GPUs/TPUs). If anyo… 2021-08-14 21:49:24 RT @FlyFazFly: @mmitchell_ai “Data set collection and monitoring isn't a one-off task for one or two people… If you're doing this responsib… 2021-08-14 21:49:13 RT @baxterkb: .@mmitchell_ai "idea of creating dataset stewardship orgs—teams of ppl that handle curation, maintenance, & 2021-08-14 21:48:30 This is only possible thanks to everyone in the @BigscienceW, especially @YJernite, who are making the deep-dive into ethics-informed data governance possible. https://t.co/xgCNLb6owx 2021-08-14 15:44:12 @regisphilibert Hahaha 2021-08-14 15:39:50 RT @black_in_ai: Celebrating @Namzo098 and the rest of the Academic Program team as we prepare to launch the fourth iteration of t… 2021-08-14 15:39:12 RT @ykomska: academic Twitter is excellent with whipping anxiety into stiff peaks and spreading it, and the line between finding solidarity… 2021-08-14 15:36:56 @aselbst @Aaron_Horowitz @geomblog @ziebrah Link to paper? 2021-08-14 15:24:40 RT @DataUmbrella: It is now clear that constructing more responsible data sets isn’t nearly enough. Those working in AI must also make a lo… 2021-08-14 15:20:26 RT @_KarenHao: Featuring research from Kenny Peng, @aruneshmathur, and @random_walker, and wisdom from @mmitchell_ai. 2021-08-14 02:25:30 @tpoholmes @ashleygjovik @oilyraincloud This. 2021-08-14 02:03:33 RT @SalesforceEQ: Tune into @TechCrunch's Sessions: SAAS with @baxterkb, Principal Architect for #EthicalAI practice, to learn about the ro… 2021-08-14 01:57:29 RT @aselbst: Excited for my Law, Tech & 2021-08-13 20:44:52 .@_KarenHao just wrote a great piece shining some light on ethical AI data practices. https://t.co/kqOE9zAdnv I'm also very excited to be quoted in it! Drawing from years of work with my former team at G00g & 2021-08-13 20:41:17 @andrewthesmart I'm in. 2021-08-13 20:37:40 RT @emilymbender: “It’s really important to think through the various values that a data set encodes, as well as the values that having a d… 2021-08-13 20:30:42 RT @andreas_madsen: Our new survey on post-hoc interpretability methods for NLP is out! This covers 19 specific interpretability methods, c… 2021-08-12 21:11:32 Remember when most of us didn't know what AQI was? =( 2021-08-12 21:00:12 RT @AugustaAtinuke: Y'all. Just put the Zoom link in the calendar invitation. I am BEGGING YOU OH MY GOODNESS. 2021-08-12 20:09:54 @IasonGabriel That's really nice of you. =) Same to you!!! 2021-08-12 18:02:45 RT @JonathanLu11: I looked at 15 ML model reporting guidelines ince 2012 and the only one that mentions anything about intersectional subgr… 2021-08-12 15:11:01 RT @YourAnonCentral: Ethiopia is using systematic rape against women and girls in a “cleansing the blood lines” campaign. Reports of atro… 2021-08-12 15:10:11 This is both terrifying and fascinating to watch in warp speed. https://t.co/JRoIWdoenj 2021-08-12 15:08:38 RT @osanseviero: Spoiler alert: you can now see evaluation metrics in the @huggingface Hub! If specified, you can even find the leaderboar… 2021-08-12 15:07:50 RT @Dr_B_Pearl: Normalize checking on people when they cross your mind with a quick text or email. A lot of us are out here feeling like we… 2021-08-12 15:06:43 RT @Reductress: Woman Foolishly Thinks She Just Needs To Get Through This Week: https://t.co/PYwcL4Vd0l https://t.co/FTsdQr9Ece 2021-08-12 15:04:54 @emilymbender @aclmeeting Fwiw https://t.co/ySjsEd5eQw 2021-08-12 14:57:55 @anyabelz @lspecia Thank you for inviting me! 2021-08-12 14:36:26 @TaliaRinger @DataSciBae @timnitGebru =D =D that's so nice of you, thanks! =D 2021-08-12 14:34:08 RT @anyabelz: The ACL Anthology can't handle invited talks yet (though apparently will soon), but @mmitchell_ai and @lspecia's brilliant ke… 2021-08-11 22:19:03 RT @Dolphin_Project: August 8, 2021 marks 51 years since Lolita's/Tokitae's capture off the coast of Washington State. She has been circlin… 2021-08-11 20:27:47 @laurenceb @timnitGebru @RonWyden (who I'd voted for!) mentioned they would "look at ways to ensure researchers aren’t subject to retaliation or inappropriate pressure from employers". Seems it happened to me, in a fairly cookie-cutter way, but ultimately it didn't matter. https://t.co/GzgjwDu6n3 2021-08-11 19:32:18 This is a moment in AI where bullies haven't defined the path forward and it gives me a lot of hope. 2021-08-11 19:30:45 Doing ethics reviews for a few conferences, and boy we've come a long way!! So happy AI is moving down this path. A few years ago, I was thrashed online for "virtue signaling" as I wrote the first Ethical Considerations sections in my papers 2021-08-11 19:27:44 @widged I'm contracting/consulting with a few different companies & 2021-08-11 19:22:35 @laurenceb @ashleygjovik https://t.co/MfcHBaZN7e 2021-08-11 18:05:03 @timnitGebru On this: Want justice for what they did to you. There's so much more that's important to share, directly as a witness 2021-08-11 17:59:36 @ashleygjovik Yep. I said over and over again I was a witness for what they did and would not lie, and openly showed them a chunk of evidence --> 2021-08-11 17:58:38 RT @laurenceb: Exactly the problem! "Win" means getting a few bucks after months or years, while watching the perpetrators renovate kitchen… 2021-08-11 17:31:40 @GrimKim By "won", what does that mean? Compensation of 1 years' worth after 5+ years of fighting and pain or something like that? 2021-08-11 17:30:32 RT @alexhanna: I hadn't realized this was on the web! But the @calacademy and @500QueerSci featured me and 22 other badass QTPOC scientists… 2021-08-11 17:17:24 RT @widged: @mmitchell_ai @DataSciBae @timnitGebru 2 months ago I reached the point of considering it better to jump from a balcony (7th fl… 2021-08-11 17:13:11 @timnitGebru @emilymbender @DataSciBae =( =( 2021-08-11 17:12:08 Interesting idear... https://t.co/GQ264v7iW9 2021-08-11 17:11:10 @nkrishnaswami @DataSciBae @timnitGebru Thanks. < 2021-08-11 17:08:42 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: TWO MORE DAYS to submit to #WiNLP2021, co-located with #EMNLP2021! If you're a member of an underrepresented group in NL… 2021-08-11 16:13:16 RT @morganklauss: We found computer vision datasets authors value efficiency at the expense of care 2021-08-11 16:13:05 RT @alexhanna: New paper alert! Wherein @morganklauss, @cephaloponderer and I dig into the value assumptions of computer vision datasets, a… 2021-08-11 16:04:03 @timnitGebru @emilymbender @DataSciBae Diplomacy is definitely firing someone on the spot for being amazing at their job and calling it a resignation. Great example of diplomatic leadership. 2021-08-11 16:00:29 RT @datasociety: "In order to be successful, AI interventions must always be thought of as sociotechnical systems, in which social context,… 2021-08-11 15:55:47 @DataSciBae @timnitGebru No I really appreciate it!! < 2021-08-11 15:55:00 @DataSciBae @timnitGebru I literally feel like vomiting now. I'm having a very physical negative reaction to this. Do you ever find yourself going, man, why do I have to keep existing when what life brings me is pain, alienation, and the message that I shouldn't exist? Hate this. =( 2021-08-11 15:49:24 @DataSciBae @timnitGebru Are you kidding me? Forbes has regularly recognized my colleagues, but never me, and now this? I feel like it's personal now. =( 2021-08-11 15:48:22 @DarceyNLP Hehhee, so true. 2021-08-11 15:43:42 RT @pwais: sounds like Apple Legal, who likely ordered the phone wiped, is hoping Apple HR’s combative behavior continues to rile the victi… 2021-08-11 15:41:45 @ashleygjovik ...But I don't think anymore that it's ever about belief: it's about liability. The more you can make them believe, the more you can make a jury believe, and so the closer you are to being fired. The more reasonable evidence you have, the more you need to be expunged. 2021-08-11 15:38:57 @ashleygjovik Yikes. You just can't provide evidence. =( I think that when you're constantly treated like you're not to be believed, the natural thing to do is to provide evidence so that they can believe you... 2021-08-11 15:32:02 @ashleygjovik You shouldn't have to be constantly alienated to work in Big Tech. It's important to make this clear in the longer term. Sorry you have to deal with this. =( 2021-08-11 15:22:07 @ashleygjovik Why should you respect an investigation process that doesn't respect you? 2021-08-11 15:21:22 @ashleygjovik ....yeaaah...evidence that's legally yours is the opposite of something they'll respect I'm afraid. =( =( You have to be dishonest if you want to follow the law. =( =( 2021-08-11 00:29:00 People experiencing a heat wave: Remember to put out cold water & 2021-08-10 17:08:44 Thank you to @CoryBooker @RepYvetteClarke @janschakowsky for continuing to see what's happening. I am here at your service to help make this right. 2021-08-10 17:06:28 Thanks @viaCristiano. @timnitGebru & IMO our prev employer hasn't shown understanding that treating a Black woman like a piece of trash is problematic. Congress noticed. https://t.co/EqLRI22ZOb 2021-08-10 16:41:38 RT @kchonyc: """ “In my mind, I have never crossed the line with anyone,” Mr. Cuomo said. “But I didn’t realized the extent to which the… 2021-08-10 16:28:32 @beausievers Haha, great save. 2021-08-10 16:14:31 RT @ruthstarkman: Combatting Anti-Blackness in the AI Community | Montreal AI Ethics Institute draws on @databoydg 's original paper https:… 2021-08-10 15:27:28 RT @timnitGebru: I am very excited to have this conversation with @vanessa_vash on Friday. https://t.co/8v4LKcYuX0 2021-08-10 14:06:58 @rctatman Plus, emotion detection is based on either acted emotion or *perceived* emotion, depending on how the data was collected. It's not internal emotion. It's not emotion emotion. 2021-08-10 14:03:14 RT @rctatman: Friends. If you're working on this tech? Quit. DM me & 2021-08-09 23:13:31 RT @rctatman: Well dang, guess ethnoloects *don't* exist and generations of sociolinguistic researchers have just been barking up the wrong… 2021-08-09 22:32:32 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: It's the LAST WEEK to submit to #WiNLP2021, co-located with #EMNLP2021! If you're a member of an underrepresented grou… 2021-08-09 22:30:48 RT @John_J_Howard: @mmitchell_ai Oh I am old enough to remember a time when collecting data was looked at as a noble part of science. The… 2021-08-09 22:12:49 RT @LeonDerczynski: Online hate pushes people out of conversations and polarises online societies. We took a scientific approach using mach… 2021-08-09 16:22:37 And thanks Kenny Peng @aruneshmathur and @random_walker for this awesome work. 2021-08-09 16:20:30 For those of you who are starting to realize that collecting datasets in ML is a serious task requiring a lot of skill -- this is a must read. https://t.co/Xuu7fGgTBG 2021-08-09 16:04:10 RT @random_walker: To better understand the ethics of machine learning datasets, we picked three controversial face recognition / person re… 2021-08-07 02:02:14 RT @davidschlangen: Fun paper about the (long) history of using parrots to make points about language: DiPiero (2009): "Voltaire's Parrot… 2021-08-06 17:20:46 RT @baxterkb: "When women in tech do speak up, they’re often told to quiet down—particularly if they are women of color." @histoftech feat… 2021-08-05 16:40:38 RT @radamihalcea: We often ask: what is the difference between Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing? A wonderful per… 2021-08-04 23:11:39 @TheoNewton15 @ZoeSchiffer Worth following the case of @chelseyglasson , who has been heroically sharing the details of what it can mean to deal with being illegally harmed by a billion-dollar company as a single individual. 2021-08-04 23:09:55 @TheoNewton15 @ZoeSchiffer No legal cases against a big tech company are "easy", as far as I'm aware. Even with blatant breaking of laws, you can expect years of litigation and your life being thrashed. Not to even mention how shitty it is for your colleagues to suddenly now have to be witnesses. 2021-08-04 23:05:21 RT @Miles_Brundage: I think a lot of y'all will find this very interesting! :) https://t.co/TyMymbFsB4 2021-08-04 20:57:00 RT @tsimonite: “If you take out all the technical words and replace them with the word ‘magic’ and the sentence still makes grammatical sen… 2021-08-04 20:04:36 @ptullochott Marry n' Bury services! If you do both in a day, we'll throw in a Marionberry pie! 2021-08-04 20:00:01 @mzeid4real @on_texan Yuh, but that's where Dr. comes in. 2021-08-04 19:23:42 @mzeid4real @on_texan If you're asking me to do something, and you haven't even looked into who I am, then probably it doesn't make sense for me in particular to help you. 2021-08-04 19:23:00 @mzeid4real @on_texan It's especially jarring if you've made the decision *not* to marry (like me) & 2021-08-04 19:20:15 @mzeid4real @on_texan Increasingly, people don't change their names, which hopefully makes sense without more explanation from an equality perspective. Having a title that marks you as "married" -- only if you're a woman -- also denotes that for women, being married matters, while for men, it doesn't. 2021-08-04 19:16:52 RT @LeonDerczynski: @mmitchell_ai https://t.co/tXvW6GJVpH - love that this was picked up 2021-08-04 19:16:38 RT @markhurst: @OsherL @_ShobhitSinghal @AlexDRocca @CaseyNewton @ProtonMail @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @RealAbril @mustafasuleymn You migh… 2021-08-04 18:12:07 @Monica_Drake Could also serve as training data! =D 2021-08-04 18:11:27 @LeonDerczynski Totally. I think a lot about "playing the long game". Sometimes you can foresee that public behavior from people/orgs will be "case in point" of the insight you're providing. It may stink short term 2021-08-04 18:07:48 RT @LeonDerczynski: @mmitchell_ai Our local press about the prevalent local form, neosexism, was drowned in neosexist comments 2021-08-04 17:56:33 @BayesForDays @SeeTedTalk @NeurIPSConf @iclr_conf Dunno about ICLR, but NeurIPS has a board/foundation that's been around a long time and make things go. Mary Ellen Perry is the only one whose name I remember, but there are more, including an IT person. 2021-08-04 17:49:32 RT @leftoblique: This is an excellent survey of current research into online sexism. An interesting point from the article: the most commo… 2021-08-04 16:21:00 "Posts in Spanish...have a higher proportion of sexist content related to dominance...Italian social media users lean toward stereotypes and objectification...English speakers seek to discredit women more often than their Italian or Spanish counterparts" https://t.co/d5s2aYeeUN 2021-08-04 16:15:12 RT @emilymbender: Great, nuanced reporting by @kharijohnson about interesting research by @PhilineZeinert @NannaInie @LeonDerczynski ! I p… 2021-08-04 16:14:49 RT @evanmiltenburg: Our #inlg2021 paper on error analysis of NLG output is now available though ArXiv! We quantified the lack of error ana… 2021-08-04 16:14:05 RT @DrSimoneStumpf: I can reveal that I will be joining University of Glasgow as Reader in Responsible and Interactive AI from 1 December.… 2021-08-04 16:01:49 RT @DrLukeOR: We are ringing alarm bells here. AI systems trained on standard medical datasets appear to learn to recognise race *by defaul… 2021-08-04 16:00:16 RT @MartinJBCoulter: We’ve just published the memo DeepMind sent to staff when word of the bullying investigation first broke. At the tim… 2021-08-04 00:50:23 RT @FTC: We want to hear directly from you to help inform our work. The FTC has asked for public comment on contract terms that may undermi… 2021-08-04 00:49:49 RT @histoftech: Erasure—whether historical or contemporary—is political. People don’t get erased because they’re unimportant. They get eras… 2021-08-04 00:46:05 @mer__edith @timnitGebru How could I forget. We need to write that up some time... 2021-08-03 18:55:58 RT @histoftech: The fact that most folks can probably come up with at least another high profile instance or two (or three) that I wasn’t a… 2021-08-03 18:55:44 RT @histoftech: “While women, & 2021-08-03 18:14:06 @ruthstarkman @timnitGebru @kat_heller To that end, this other recent article is so relevant. https://t.co/1Na6ZAdDYB 2021-08-03 18:13:50 @ruthstarkman @timnitGebru @kat_heller My understanding is that if you can articulate issues well, you're targeted to delegitimize and remove. There are lots of great HR people, but their role is to maintain the current structures in the company. If those structures are fundamentally discriminatory, well... 2021-08-03 17:52:35 @OsherL @MartinJBCoulter @timnitGebru @mustafasuleymn @JeffDean @gmail @googlesearchc @ProtonMail @DuckDuckGo @firefox @YouTube Wow, this is really extensive. Thanks for all of your work on this. 2021-08-03 17:51:36 @chelseyglasson @MartinJBCoulter @timnitGebru As you're actively dealing with, I don't think it's enraging to ppl who could fundamentally change it. =( I think people who can change it look instead at us talking about it and see that as the fundamental problem. Victimization begets victimization. Barriers beget barriers. 2021-08-03 17:49:40 RT @MartinJBCoulter: One person we spoke with put it quite succinctly… https://t.co/0kM0V5I8Hh https://t.co/5Q42XMMXBR 2021-08-03 17:42:10 RT @ZoeSchiffer: Activision Blizzard employees wrote a letter to executives yesterday to protest the company's hiring of union-busting firm… 2021-08-03 17:41:30 RT @mathbabedotorg: My new book is an actual thing and is available for pre-order now, although won't be actually sent for a while: https:… 2021-08-03 17:21:52 RT @alexhanna: Overjoyed to be in conversation with @timnitGebru at this year’s @BWTalkTech conference, Aug 12-13, 2021! Register at https:… 2021-08-03 17:20:01 @sockdolagerm @timnitGebru @kat_heller I honestly don't think there is a way to fix it, other than raising awareness in places like this. That's why I do it...the rest of the day I'll be filled with negative emotions and anxiety, but the larger picture is too important for my personal whatever. 2021-08-03 17:17:57 This is never about men vs women IMO. This is about ***all genders*** vs women. The messages we learn culturally, the norms we absorb around what women are, is not limited to any gender (AFAIK). https://t.co/hHaSANpP4E 2021-08-03 17:10:39 @ruthstarkman @timnitGebru @JeffDean Right, this is important to wrap one's head around. To me, it seems clear that Google is engaging in racial and gender *inequity*. Personally, intellectually, and from a FATE research perspective, what is the relationship between this and disparate impact? Disparate treatment? 2021-08-03 17:05:41 RT @histoftech: We know women in computing have historically faced erasure—but are we prepared to confront the fact that it’s still happeni… 2021-08-03 17:05:28 RT @eldrprada: Read this https://t.co/ukTu75h3Rc 2021-08-03 16:02:33 RT @MartinJBCoulter: Most salient issue in many people's eyes: the discrepancy between how Suleyman was protected by Google, despite years… 2021-08-03 16:01:37 This is critical to pay attention to if you're following what happened to me and @timnitGebru. He was brought over to work on AI Ethics at Google. This is how. This is indistinguishable to me from discrimination against women. Is it distinguishable to you? https://t.co/vN7S6IV6pb 2021-08-03 15:57:56 RT @timnitGebru: Compare how @JeffDean treated me, saying my paper is subpar, his horrible gaslighting email, then firing my co-lead @mmitc… 2021-08-03 01:50:37 RT @BlondeHistorian: I’m just a blind girl, standing in front of tech twitter, asking you to describe images. That’s it. No demands, noth… 2021-08-02 23:28:50 RT @AshleeMPreston: Today I launched my Forbes series “Taking On Tech,” an informative collection of interviews & 2021-08-02 18:50:11 RT @psb_dc: Taking On Tech: @timnitGebru Exposes The Underbelly Of Performative Diversity In The Tech Industry #diversity #inclusion cc @M… 2021-08-02 18:48:14 @willie_agnew @Tri_Becca90 @Google @TessTanenbaum @r_speer @irv_does_chem I was working on fixing this when I was fired. Sorry guys. =( Ping @alexhanna. 2021-08-02 17:50:44 RT @carolinedjoyner: Work for me! Share with qualified folks! Partnership Coordinator - Color Of Change https://t.co/uJDhZCb0KX 2021-08-02 16:47:16 This is the most effective way to convince me not to read an email. https://t.co/MNcWFJEVF8 2021-08-02 13:52:35 RT @sophiealamo: Es posible hacer investigación sobre ética e inteligencia artificial en ambientes corporativos? @mmitchell_ai lo responde… 2021-08-02 13:52:22 RT @WHOSTP: Artificial Intelligence R& 2021-08-02 01:00:52 RT @codemacabre: Bouquets prioritising texture and fragrance. And they happen to be gorgeous too! Inclusivity benefits everyone. 2021-08-02 00:59:32 @WiMLworkshop @NeurIPSConf @Boyiliee @mariyaivasileva @linh_trd @MeeraDesai18 @jieyuzhao11 @NanaYaaSally @siri_r @geeticka1 @AmakaOraekwe Thank you so much for putting so much energy and time into this, and doing such an amazing job! 2021-08-02 00:56:20 RT @Abebab: if you're a senior academic, do not schedule meetings outside working hours, do not send emails at weekends or expect junior ac… 2021-08-01 17:23:22 RT @TaliaRinger: Life experience must always be considered when interpreting a person's words and actions 2021-08-01 16:46:40 RT @CogX_Festival: The last decade has seen a rise in ethical principles seeking to carve a path for safe technology. Learn how we can ensu… 2021-07-30 23:09:00 RT @pfau: I am absolutely BEGGING everyone to PLEASE learn Bayes' rule. Please! https://t.co/KIVPYBBmji 2021-07-30 21:02:10 @SamTheAccuser @BeyondSafewords @DemonMamaReal @DylanBurns1776 @BoxLoner @sjwdebates @KurtFLogan 2021-07-30 20:57:41 @BeyondSafewords @SamTheAccuser @DemonMamaReal @DylanBurns1776 @BoxLoner @sjwdebates @KurtFLogan I'm not Black, but I am a woman and ethics leader. I was fired shortly after, with pretty intense public disparagement from the PR folks. 2021-07-30 20:55:34 @hackingbutlegal @alexhanna @timnitGebru I imagine part of why the Ethical AI team was successful is that it didn't occur to us to further harm people who clearly have been harmed. I think that, systemically, this is a radical idea, unfortunately. And hence inclusion in tech for those marginalized is near non-existent. 2021-07-30 20:54:05 @hackingbutlegal @alexhanna The constant theme in all of this @timnitGebru firing + fallout is that the communication practices of people who communicate *with the background of being discriminated against* isn't ok. In other words, if you've had a lifetime of harm, you will be further harmed as policy. 2021-07-30 17:53:21 @emilymbender @strwbilly This is such a huge problem. =( 2021-07-29 23:40:48 Gonna delete it and repost with TW. 2021-07-29 23:40:32 Trigger warning. =( In light of everything that happened to me and @timnitGebru and @RealAbril and the media response, I wish I had also known about this too. https://t.co/YBI5FEtYe3 For the record: Rape is not ok. https://t.co/RPU0Y12IEE 2021-07-29 23:39:51 I really should have given a trigger warning. =( 2021-07-29 22:30:24 RT @timnitGebru: This was a great conversation. Thank you @shaft and #BlackTechWeek. 2021-07-29 22:30:14 RT @samsaranc: Calling all Python/Data Engineering wizards!! Do you care about saving the Earth and want to use your tech expertise for… 2021-07-29 22:22:30 @sleepinyourhat Wow! Congrats!! 2021-07-29 15:05:29 @HabenGirma Donated! =) Thanks for the inspiration. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 2021-07-29 15:04:01 RT @HabenGirma: It's my birthday! Millions of people struggle for food & 2021-07-29 14:04:21 RT @emilymbender: @brendan642 @StanfordHAI @dbamman Folks who look at pattern recognition at scale and don't see "potential benefits uneven… 2021-07-28 22:40:49 @Alisha__g @rtulshyan @chelseyglasson @eminietfeld Thanks for reporting on this. 2021-07-28 22:40:15 And thanks to @chelseyglasson and Emi Netfield for speaking up about this. Yes, this happened to me too. And similar for @timnitGebru. https://t.co/mj8i4BWICY 2021-07-28 22:35:32 This is an important piece in understanding how a company may consistently lean into alienation, rather than inclusion. Therapy helps you cope with being in a traumatic environment. It does not fix the traumatic environment. https://t.co/ew3uoKAatG 2021-07-28 22:26:40 @SMT_Solvers @kelseyhightower I loved working with GCP, and I believe they would hire me if Sundar weren't acting out against me. That said, those who I worked with "see" what was done to me, and I imagine a lot more attrition related to responsible AI will happen in the near future. 2021-07-28 15:48:20 @TaliaRinger One of the best parts of my career so far. =) 2021-07-28 15:47:47 RT @TaliaRinger: @mmitchell_ai 1.5 build an amazing team 2021-07-28 15:44:31 RT @Shruti_Narwani: log() =log 2021-07-28 15:43:51 RT @anthonyocampo: raise your hand if you’ve decimated your mental health for the sake of other people’s expectations. raise your han… 2021-07-27 23:42:06 @sreekotay hahaha 2021-07-27 17:20:09 Am feeling the same about Biles (and it's all over my Twitter). There's a new trend in being more open about mental issues and concerns, and it's so inspiring and I'm so grateful she spoke up about this at such an intense moment. https://t.co/j6anuNO4cq 2021-07-27 17:17:42 @alexhanna Hahaha. Chad. 2021-07-27 16:07:28 RT @AlondraNelson46: It is pleasure to welcome Dr. Sorelle Friedler to OSTP. Her vast + distinctive experience includes AI applications ran… 2021-07-27 15:55:13 RT @imxudong: Strongly recommend this interesting & 2021-07-27 15:55:00 RT @er_ique: Is it depression or is it trying to survive under capitalism 2021-07-27 15:52:29 RT @AlondraNelson46: OSTP seeks public input on the National AI Research Resource: How can the NAIRR reinforce principles of ethical + resp… 2021-07-27 15:44:21 RT @ruchowdh: It's been hard to keep quiet on this ... excited to announce Twitter META will be hosting the first *ever* algorithmic bias b… 2021-07-27 15:34:49 My master plan: 1. Get hired at Google 2. Be witness to intense discrimination against my colead 3. Confirm I will not lie under oath (or at all) 4. Be blasted out and disparaged by Google This is all going swimmingly! https://t.co/MN7rxFcXFh 2021-07-27 15:27:21 RT @xkcdComic: Flawed Data https://t.co/VEidybCcBA https://t.co/pt8WwJnHdf https://t.co/VwrGuWsik0 2021-07-26 22:20:44 RT @sleepinyourhat: I'll likely admit a couple new PhD students this year. If you're interested in NLP and you have experience either in cr… 2021-07-26 22:20:16 RT @conitzer: Please share and respond to (by Sep 1) this request for public input on a National (US) AI Research Resource 2021-07-26 18:51:47 RT @TaliaRinger: Is there any data on the retention of neurodivergent or LGBTQ computer scientists in research careers? These are two aspec… 2021-07-26 18:51:37 @Abebab @rajiinio ^^ 2021-07-26 18:51:15 @andrewthesmart @undersequoias @alexhanna @rajiinio Personally, I work in tech so that robots can destroy the human race. 2021-07-26 18:50:40 RT @alexhanna: This. @rajiinio, myself, and others in this space aren't in this because we're anti-tech. It's because we engaged in the wor… 2021-07-26 18:50:17 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: Submitting to #WiNLP2021 on August 13? @Grammarly has generously donated codes for temporary premium subscriptions to us… 2021-07-26 18:49:32 @kdphd @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @geomblog OMG!!! Congratulations!! 2021-07-25 14:20:44 RT @emilymbender: Meanwhile, #AIhype makes matters worse: Every time someone research team basis wild over-claims on specific benchmark res… 2021-07-25 02:57:30 RT @emilymbender: @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @mcmillan_majora I think this framing is really valuable: "Natural language processing bring… 2021-07-25 02:56:34 @emilymbender @timnitGebru Argh!! I wasn't either. Thanks for writing this out. 2021-07-25 02:53:53 RT @emilymbender: It's definitely something to see one's research covered in The New Yorker! https://t.co/DYDygtWXhI A short thread refl… 2021-07-25 02:53:43 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora OoooOoo!! 2021-07-24 22:06:03 @Jon_Ayre @clairewaves 2021-07-24 22:04:44 @TaliaRinger Arrrg I wish I could come!!! 2021-07-24 18:47:37 RT @neilturkewitz: @alexhanna Wow, that’s rich…investors in a company whose business model is based on unauthorized use of images in order… 2021-07-24 18:29:22 @lingelien @clairewaves Yuh yuh. Don't want to go too far down that path, but one of the reasons I stopped telling people at Google that I preferred to go by 'M' is because I realized how many top successful tech females had 'Meg'-like names. If you can't beat em join em? 2021-07-24 18:20:06 @clairewaves In Google horror stories, men with "J" names keep re-occurring as sources of the horror. I wish I could say more about the eeriness of name similarities and the harms I've experienced, without fear of retaliation. But this pattern keeps popping up and it's odd. 2021-07-23 21:35:01 @ptullochott @laurencza @timnitGebru I really appreciate your continued kindness and empathy. Will need to figure out a way to repay it somehow... 2021-07-23 21:34:18 @ptullochott @laurencza @timnitGebru Indeed. Thank you for noticing that. A career of barriers, obstacles, and trauma builds up an endurance in you where you can continue existing in pain if you can see a positive future end goal. We are far from that goal right now unfortunately. =( 2021-07-23 21:26:25 @laurencza @timnitGebru ...First typoed that as "airing hams", haha. Arguably, it is okay to air hams. 2021-07-23 21:25:10 @laurencza @timnitGebru It's important to keep speaking up because our former employer hasn't shown a sign yet that they don't think it's A-okay to behave in ways consistent with racism, misogyny, and quite publicly airing harms targeting some of their most senior female scientists. 2021-07-23 21:22:10 Appreciate @laurencza speaking up as she bows out. I've heard there's been a bit of 'exodus' from ppl connected to me and @timnitGebru 2021-07-23 15:55:06 @laurencza @timnitGebru @RealAbril @chelseyglasson @mer__edith @clairewaves Thank you! 2021-07-22 04:25:20 @alexhanna omg this is amazing. 2021-07-21 15:45:40 @veenadubal @timnitGebru @mer__edith @sarahcuda I had told the PR guy who I understood to be behind the demeaning comms around @timnitGebru that what he was doing created harassment and bullying. His apparent response was to blast out what Google blasted out about me. Ahh, Tech. 0 signs of misogyny. 2021-07-21 15:24:49 @rajiinio @alexhanna @luke_stark What is this reality!??! 2021-07-21 15:24:35 @luke_stark !!!! 2021-07-21 15:23:11 @_dynamic24_ That would be *them* making impact via her, no? I think key to this is what it means to help someone else make impact. Ideally, there are 2 sides: -PersonA trying to make impact -PersonB who can help PersonA make impact & 2021-07-21 15:17:51 @willie_agnew @kat_heller @icmlconf Further, by aligning what's "great" with what the reviewing rubric is, we have a nicely transparent end-to-end system on what the community values. We also incentivize each part that really matters: Rigorous evaluation. Explanation of techniques. Innovative ideas. etc. 2021-07-21 15:16:06 @willie_agnew @kat_heller @icmlconf Yeah, this is why I said "great" rather than "best". There's a lot to say about how wrong the idea of a paper being "best" at a conference is, and who the "best" deciders are. What I always wanted to do was to recognize "great" evaluation, "great" motivation, "great" analysis... 2021-07-21 03:39:30 RT @marylgray: Love public hearings on AI ethics? Drop by (comment on) the "Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for HHS Conducted or Supp… 2021-07-21 03:38:07 RT @AlondraNelson46: I am pleased to welcome Rashida Richardson to the Science and Society team @WHOSTP. Her combination of legal, policy,… 2021-07-20 21:08:13 RT @Blackamazon: Y’all better put down respect on @IfeomaOzoma name 2021-07-20 21:07:13 @mer__edith @AlondraNelson46 @WHOSTP45 Wowowoww!!! Not surprised and way to go Rashida! 2021-07-20 21:03:30 RT @WiMLworkshop: #WIML2021 @icmlconf features a panel session with wonderful panelists below. There will be discussions on “industry/acade… 2021-07-20 16:41:33 Interesting way of defining roles in a tech dev team: The developer, the firefighter, the gardener, the goalkeeper. I'm definitely part-gardener. =D https://t.co/bY6pMfZIIm 2021-07-20 16:34:32 RT @DigitalBlkHippy: I'll never forget the feeling I had when I found out the fake white male LinkedIn profile I made with the exact same w… 2021-07-20 16:32:39 RT @bitchwhocodes: a thread today where women are discussing the "aggressive" versus assertive label and wanting to leave tech. don't recr… 2021-07-20 00:52:40 RT @arjunsubgraph: On a related note, @QueerinAI, @WiMLworkshop, and @_LXAI are all SUPER proud of the great submissions we received to our… 2021-07-19 22:31:00 @SaleemaAmershi @timnitGebru @baxterkb @_alialkhatib @katecrawford COOL WORK! Congrats on launching! And thanks for the shout-out! 2021-07-19 22:30:08 Lots of cool tools for thinking with foresight about systems you are working on. Plus, @SaleemaAmershi worked on it, so it's guaranteed to be useful. https://t.co/UuB4PXZA4Z 2021-07-19 22:19:30 @rajiinio @black_in_ai Way to go!! 2021-07-19 22:18:24 @KLdivergence Congratulations!! Frame it! 2021-07-19 22:18:06 @DiverseInAI @timnitGebru Thank you. < 2021-07-19 17:53:41 Visiting my mom in LA, where I was when @timnitGebru was fired. Flashbacks of being immediately urgently warned from others that I was next, and would be both fired and smeared. I wanted it not to be true. 2021-07-19 17:49:00 Come join Those Who Are Often Marginalized in NLP at @WiNLPWorkshop to shine a spotlight on great work & And you can register (for free!) here: https://t.co/URI6loTZyA 2021-07-19 15:34:15 RT @QueerZoomer: Happy to announce that the @QueerInAI's diversity and inclusion guide has been accepted to appear in #WINLP2021. A threa… 2021-07-19 15:33:52 RT @MiroDudik: If you are at #ICML2021, please make sure to check out the fantastic events hosted by the affinity groups @black_in_ai, Indi… 2021-07-19 14:44:23 RT @healthcora: Your morning find: the amazing #STEMfem @BlackGirlsCode coloring book. You had me at a page dedicated to @timnitGebru - my… 2021-07-19 14:42:50 RT @Jackstilgoe: A superb recent talk by @emilymbender at the @turinginst, hosted by @adrian_weller. She talks about this paper (https://t.… 2021-07-19 14:42:31 @kat_heller @icmlconf Maybe there should be a "renegade" great papers, put together by the affinity groups... 2021-07-19 14:33:53 Marginalized people can explain how they're being marginalized, but the ML community continues doubling down on practices that favor white and asian men. This can mean working so so hard for the honor of being treated as worthless. (And "aggressive" if you say anything.) https://t.co/pemxBE468v 2021-07-19 14:14:30 @HMRoff I feel like this is even more of a concern for "Impact", where the counterargument is that it should be 'measured' with respect to the person's position. So I suppose that reasoning could work here as well? Eg, for newbies it would likely be wrt their team and manager. 2021-07-19 03:39:18 Nice piece from @ruthstarkman about ethics rhetoric. https://t.co/2Hrmk8xC9G 2021-07-18 22:08:17 @alanou 2021-07-18 20:51:23 @841io Yeah, actually that's not unique to MSR, that approach is shared across several tech companies. A similar program at Google gave rise to this *awesome* piece of work from @alexdamour , @kat_heller and others: https://t.co/qcTxterMGH 2021-07-18 20:49:06 @srchvrs Yeah, that makes sense. I usually shy away from opining on companies more broadly because my only experience with companies is in the tech sector. But I imagine that most of my observations are not unique to tech... 2021-07-18 20:46:30 RT @srchvrs: @mmitchell_ai It's a much bigger fundamental issue, not just some corporations. People are never given the same opportunities… 2021-07-18 20:41:16 What if perf included something that measured how much you helped others who are different from you to make impact? This would make inclusion heavily incentivized, while also diversifying the portfolio of projects & 2021-07-18 20:35:58 Many tech companies use "Impact" as a measure of employee performance. This can create an environment where people who disproportionately face obstacles & 2021-07-18 04:37:13 RT @WiMLworkshop: We are looking forward to the joint poster session together with @_LXAI @QueerinAI and #WIML2021 Un-Workshop at @icmlconf… 2021-07-17 23:50:24 @Abebab @anoushnajarian TECH FIRST PEOPLE SECOND. 2021-07-17 22:40:30 RT @nbulusu: Wonderful interview of one of my favorite people and favorite women in CS, ⁦@MelMitchell1⁩! https://t.co/GGii5ZH2j2 2021-07-17 17:43:19 @tsimonite Oooh that wasn't a joke, that's actually the realization they came to. < oof. 2021-07-17 17:36:33 @tsimonite HAHA 2021-07-17 17:36:09 @TaliaRinger Except sometimes I say them in front of people whoops. 2021-07-17 17:35:45 @TaliaRinger Same. 2021-07-17 17:33:35 @nkrishnaswami @austenrox165 HEHEHE 2021-07-17 07:04:23 Thanks to @VentureBeat and @mmarshall for the opportunity! 2021-07-16 21:54:36 @austenrox165 2021-07-16 21:46:09 @CouldYouNot10 @ctoner Bahahaaha 2021-07-16 21:45:09 Ok this whole thread is cracking me up so much. As someone who was marginalized by this reporter, I didn't realize the jokes I was making to myself were a far cry from the hilarity of the people in this thread. https://t.co/iJAxfKyXVo 2021-07-16 21:42:26 RT @BilionaireMayor: @ctoner Andrew Carnegie's response to striking employees at Pittsburgh's Homestead Steel Works is pure emotional inte… 2021-07-16 21:37:53 @TaliaRinger @Miles_Brundage https://t.co/MNP8F3R0De 2021-07-16 19:21:07 @SashaMTL @timnitGebru Yeah, I think it's possible that "the pipeline" has somehow optimized for people who don't necessarily engage in long-term thinking the way that I (and so many others) are familiar with. 2021-07-16 19:19:26 @TaliaRinger @Miles_Brundage Hahahhahaha. This is cracking me up. 2021-07-16 19:11:59 @TaliaRinger @Miles_Brundage That made me spit out my coffee, hehehe. 2021-07-16 19:08:06 @TaliaRinger @Miles_Brundage You noticed this too. What's up with that. 2021-07-16 19:06:16 This is weird, but I'd been noticing this too... It's bizarre to be a scientist trying to do your science stuff and then having < 2021-07-16 18:59:55 .@omfgitsjeff made this nice thing for me. I think I'm the robot. https://t.co/9aiqKHfrWs 2021-07-16 18:59:04 @omfgitsjeff @timnitGebru Hahahhaa YAAY!! Thanks Jeff!! =D 2021-07-16 18:58:15 @alexhanna @Miles_Brundage Oh that's DEFINITELY true. Was thinking of "Inc" as you mention that. I think they've steadily put out articles praising C-suite for their emotional intelligence, even in the face of the obvious opposite. Keep wondering if the companies' PR depts are writing the articles for Inc. 2021-07-16 17:52:48 @Miles_Brundage Yep yep yep. 2021-07-16 17:51:43 RT @merrierm: My favorite research paper I've read lately is "Computer Vision and Conflicting Values: Describing People with Automated Alt… 2021-07-16 17:49:56 RT @emilymbender: “I think right now, AI ethics is at a stage where it’s seen as the last thing you do, like a policing force or a block to… 2021-07-16 17:49:44 RT @timnitGebru: “...upon being fired, it was not better. But it became clear to me that there was a very real interest in AI ethics. It ma… 2021-07-16 17:49:00 @TaliaRinger My rate is $400/hr, less per project. =D No freebies from me right now, have to make ends meet...=( 2021-07-16 17:47:21 @emilymbender @VentureBeat H/T to @ruchowdh for "tech-positive" word that so well captures what this work is trying to do. 2021-07-16 17:07:24 @TSchnoebelen @timnitGebru Yes!! Re: the "pre-mortem" name, another related one is DiRT, "Disaster Recovery Testing" https://t.co/xjo1oNDdWu 2021-07-16 16:27:40 I did an interview with Venturebeat about AI Ethics, Corporate structures, and Inclusion. Also talk a bit abt the firing of my colead @timnitGebru and how valuable she was at Google, as well as my realization that we had very useful skills in AI right now. https://t.co/pEWsq6X7lO 2021-07-16 15:57:17 RT @mmarshall: On (2) Needing better two-way communication: Google and other tech companies tend to give product teams higher status, leavi… 2021-07-16 06:03:50 RT @katherine1ee: Data duplication is serious business! 3% of documents in the large language dataset, C4, have near-duplicates. Dedupl… 2021-07-16 02:32:28 @laurenceb @alexhanna @IfeomaOzoma HEHE. Love EggsTC 2021-07-16 02:30:42 @laurenceb But then next thing you know they'll be asking for proof of identity when we buy our guns!! 2021-07-15 21:13:09 @alexhanna @IfeomaOzoma Feather Report 2021-07-15 21:08:06 @solak @Wheresroz1 @TessaJadeAdair Extra points for æ! 2021-07-15 21:07:39 @alexhanna @IfeomaOzoma Bach 2021-07-15 20:01:12 RT @soldni: @annabelle_cs @shimst3r @farbandish @mmitchell_ai @VasundharaNLP A billion times this. It would feel very icky to researcher le… 2021-07-15 18:38:12 Article out in VentureBeat on the "Big Science" project at @huggingface, which I'm involved in as are SO MANY awesome NLP colleagues. https://t.co/OUXZbgnVi6 2021-07-15 18:34:00 @nicholdav @laurenfklein @timnitGebru Thank you Lauren! 2021-07-15 17:53:15 RT @annabelle_cs: @mmitchell_ai @soldni There is work in this area, I'm on a very relevant paper https://t.co/6ejbNAelrx with @farbandish a… 2021-07-15 17:53:11 @annabelle_cs @soldni @farbandish Oh neato!!! Thanks you guys!! Will take a look. 2021-07-15 16:08:32 RT @TheDavisJam: Exciting news from ICSE'22: "We welcome independent replications of previous work, because they shed more light into certa… 2021-07-15 16:04:44 @soldni It occurs to me that this means there should be a paper focused specifically on expanding current binary gender work to multiple genders. 2021-07-15 16:03:10 RT @jennwvaughan: I don't want a future in which the only people entering ML are those with the hubris to think they've got it all figured… 2021-07-15 16:03:03 RT @jennwvaughan: I've seen several tweets this week suggesting that newcomers stay away from ML research unless they already have a killer… 2021-07-15 15:54:42 @BasesAreEmpty @katehnicholson But do hold your breath picking up poo. 2021-07-15 14:28:57 @nasrinmmm Aaaaah! 2021-07-15 00:09:04 RT @m_clarkson78: @mmitchell_ai Fact. The ability to read code that no one documented and has no notation in the comments is far more impor… 2021-07-14 20:22:12 @TaliaRinger To be fair, usually it's the goose chasing/attacking the child, hehehe. 2021-07-14 20:13:34 RT @bhumilharia: I was surprised (pleasantly) at being asked to read and explain code when @quater interviewed me 2.5y back. We still do th… 2021-07-14 16:54:46 I'm going to go to WeRobot for the first time!!* I don't know much about it other than it's where both @rcalo and @ShannonVallor go, and if those 2 fantastically skilled & https://t.co/vpgyoIqakW *I think I'm a discussant! 2021-07-14 16:51:01 RT @erikashimizu: How to reduce imposter syndrome. Hint: it’s not on you, it’s on your employer. Here it is, concrete steps that many compa… 2021-07-14 16:39:35 @anon_number_6 @nicolefv Yes! That is exactly the kind of thing that consistently happens, and that some people are a lot better at than others... 2021-07-14 16:20:00 @jackclarkSF @kevinroose Okay, this cracked me up. I'm glad this tidbit was included, hehe. https://t.co/yV3tun4TbC 2021-07-14 16:09:11 @jmeowmeow Not sure I follow. Working together on one codebase > Plus, the more you work with others' code, the more cool things you learn. 2021-07-14 16:07:15 @kungfu_mandarin Most coders [currently being hired through the start-from-scratch coding interviews] hate that, maybe? Hiring practices for programmers directly affect the kind of programmers you get...perhaps there are some unhelpful biases packed into the standard coding interviews. 2021-07-14 16:02:39 @vguptaDO That would be cool, yeah! 2021-07-14 15:56:31 @kazemicode Oh that's great. I've never had that and I'm always so baffled as to why. Like, look dude, if you're testing how well I can remember seaborn off the top of my head, I am not going to look like a good coder. Plus usually there's stackoverflow to help. =| 2021-07-14 15:50:07 I don't think tech companies are testing coding in the right way...The main skill that I've seen to be important is the ability to jump into *someone else's* code and, e.g., fix a bug, implement a new function. The ability to fluently read code that's not yours is critical. 2021-07-14 15:37:26 @KLdivergence https://t.co/XVCZFV56Am 2021-07-14 15:22:46 RT @Abebab: And @YemaachiBio is another excellent immunogenomics & 2021-07-14 15:20:59 RT @ParityAI: Thank you @FortuneMagazine for giving our founder @ruchowdh and CEO @lizjosullivan a few minutes to talk about what we are up… 2021-07-14 02:45:18 @nuhzula Nice! 2021-07-13 22:17:29 @laurenceb @ruchowdh I have a partner who has all of those things, and could produce/mix/master etc. 2021-07-13 21:32:33 RT @rctatman: A data plan showing that you have an appropriate volume of high quality training data that closely approximates what your mo… 2021-07-13 21:31:35 RT @emilymbender: #NLProc developers, please read this whole thread. If everyone were to take @rctatman 's advice, the world would be a muc… 2021-07-13 21:31:19 @adhdphd Aaaaaah 2021-07-13 21:30:44 @joy_of_living @romanlutz13 @shimst3r @obsdmd @Hazenwillbot Yeah, product manager (PM), program manager (PgM). A lot of tech companies have these roles. They're the people who magically take half-baked ideas and turn them into products and services. So making it easy for them to access/comment/link to docs is a must. 2021-07-13 20:29:20 @joy_of_living @romanlutz13 @shimst3r @obsdmd @Hazenwillbot Are those as low barriers to entries as a Google doc? For a lot of PMs and things, using git and latex can make it a lot harder to link everything together, including the other docs they're pulling in. 2021-07-13 20:26:26 @joy_of_living Be careful to write down abusive treatment outside of the corp servers.........advice from a friend. 2021-07-13 20:25:13 @ruchowdh @laurenceb Yeah, I would soooo love to do a podcast with some set of people in our circles asking one another questions. 2021-07-13 16:45:11 RT @JesseDodge: The amount of computation used for NLP research has grown tremendously in recent years. @royschwartzNLP, @strubell, @IGurev… 2021-07-13 16:40:08 @shimst3r Honestly, I just use Google docs with folders in my bookmarks bar for different projects. 2021-07-13 16:20:44 It's kind of no wonder (I realize now) that a lot of the work on responsible AI documentation practices has been coming out of Google... 2021-07-13 16:20:12 I just realized how much Google culture changed me into being a good documenter. I went from doing a terrible job at keeping track of things in docs when I joined, to (4 years later) obsessively having corresponding docs for every idea, and cross-pointers between all of them. 2021-07-13 16:09:19 RT @adrian_weller: @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @anncopestake @ZacKenton1 Here’s the video https://t.co/mJbG4I74hG 2021-07-13 16:08:48 @LydiaCourage @andrewthesmart !!! jealous. 2021-07-13 16:06:52 @ruchowdh I recently did an interview with someone who said I was "famously cast out by Google" or something like that. So I haven't shared that interview. My favorite clapback right now: "Oh, maybe for *your* audience." Hehhe. 2021-07-13 16:04:44 @ruchowdh I'm not sure if there's a positive change... I've felt like media outlets and journalists are all very different, in part representing facts, in part interesting their audience. Free press is (are?) crucial, and that also means a really high variance in perspectives/audiences. 2021-07-13 16:00:00 RT @oziadias: For the past 2 years, we’ve worked to diagnose and fix bias in dozens of algorithms. @caseymross wrote a wonderful piece ab… 2021-07-13 15:59:35 @tsimonite @oziadias @stepheaneff @m_sendhil I came across this as well recently and found it really helpful! 2021-07-13 15:54:37 @andrewthesmart https://t.co/rMt9SgwnFv 2021-07-13 03:39:31 @emilymbender @BBCRadio4 Ugh I'm sorry. =( 2021-07-12 20:19:19 @TaliaRinger I don't believe I started using that phrase until I moved to the PNW...! 2021-07-12 20:17:59 @baxterkb @mmarshall @VentureBeat You're so kind, thank you!! 2021-07-12 17:58:06 @mark_riedl It would be fun to have a "what we want to say" wiki, which would also help venting before writing something more self-flagellating to the reviewers. 2021-07-12 17:56:07 @mark_riedl My take is that it depends on the reviews. If they're generally positive, don't rile reviewers up. If they tend negative, then explaining that Reviewer 2 completely misunderstands is helpful, although I can't say as a reviewer I've ever found snarkiness helps me change my score.. 2021-07-12 17:54:51 @mark_riedl hehehehehehe 2021-07-11 19:26:51 RT @baxterkb: ICYM @StanfordCCSRE & 2021-07-11 00:25:19 RT @DivineOps: Correlation or causation? https://t.co/pZN2xmhccp 2021-07-11 00:24:15 RT @zacharylipton: “There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of it… 2021-07-10 22:59:21 Nice write-up from @hattusia about my recent CogX talk. One idea is a gentle change to the information flow at a company, where people who are gifted at well-researched foresight are able to share their insights with leaders shaping the company. Could even be a monthly preso. https://t.co/sYZsPsGZR9 2021-07-10 20:57:58 RT @QueerinAI: ICML 2021 is coming up, and Queer in AI is hosting not one but TWO amazing panels as part of our workshop! To crea… 2021-07-10 20:42:02 @emilymbender @csdoctorsister "You're very articulate!" "That's actually not a terrible idea!" (Not saying they said that, just putting out phrases I've experienced that seem applicable) 2021-07-10 20:38:52 @VidaVakil I'm so sorry you've had to endure of all of that. =( Thank you for always being such a support for me. 2021-07-10 20:08:57 RT @PMinervini: Consider submitting your work at the @CIKM2021 Workshop on Knowledge Injection in Neural Networks! We have some stellar pan… 2021-07-10 19:46:15 @VidaVakil This one cracked me up way too much. https://t.co/JzUyAK4uoH 2021-07-10 19:45:02 @VidaVakil Hahahaha. Man these are so good. 2021-07-10 19:43:43 @emilymbender Yeah, I had turned down a Radio 4 request because they seemed clearly uninterested in me as a researcher or my research. So that didn't bode well. I'm really worried about the serious issues at play here being reduced to juvenile gossip about caricatured personalities... 2021-07-10 19:35:48 RT @ZhijingJin: New to NLP research? We launched a free, worldwide, year-round mentorshipApply: https://t.co/Dw7Hybji35 Proud of all my… 2021-07-10 19:28:37 @emilymbender Oh God, I'm sorry!! I was on the BBC too recently and had a relatively demeaning experience. I didn't end up posting it. 2021-07-10 03:25:00 @hannahsassaman @KLdivergence Yeah so true! 2021-07-10 00:32:52 @timnitGebru @VidaVakil @lmanul @chelseyglasson @JeffDean These are all so good! 2021-07-10 00:23:13 @chelseyglasson @timnitGebru @lmanul @JeffDean Are you aware of our EAP program? 2021-07-09 23:44:22 @timnitGebru @lmanul @chelseyglasson @JeffDean There's this one too! https://t.co/75yDPjsO1l 2021-07-09 23:23:56 @AllisonCGardner @KLdivergence 2021-07-09 22:59:22 RT @datasociety: "There is a lot of exploitation happening with respect to how companies in the U.S. or Canada interact with developing nat… 2021-07-09 22:18:18 @andrewthesmart @KLdivergence Oh yes, so much this!! 2021-07-09 22:16:20 @KLdivergence Also, I learned that it's really helpful to say "I think", "I believe", etc., even when saying things I knew. It really grated on me (and still does) that men seemed not to have to do this. But my own experience quickly taught me, yikes, never act like you are certain in text. 2021-07-09 22:12:33 @KLdivergence You have to pretend to be a lot less intelligent than you are too, in my experience. =( It helps to say "I'm not sure, but" or "I was thinking that maybe..." or "This is probably totally wrong, but..." or "You definitely understand this way better than me" etc. 2021-07-09 22:10:39 @KLdivergence Email culture was very different for me between MSR and Google. The way of speaking can also be super roundabout...I've found in the past that candor is really not appreciated. I started copying how other women emailed, & 2021-07-09 21:55:06 RT @joyceerhl: I don't know who needs to hear this but https://t.co/S5hB9yk8oT has 15 years of CS papers that are comedy gold https://t.co/… 2021-07-09 19:20:13 @KLdivergence https://t.co/xtLGIQ5844 2021-07-09 18:11:38 @KLdivergence I'm a big fan of: (1) Weekly half hour --> (2) Meetings that last 0 minutes 2021-07-09 18:10:35 @KLdivergence Ooh...You say that now...but when you get into the back-to-back half-hour meetings every-day schedule, you'll find you're only having meetings about what you *should* do and no cognitive capacity/time to actually *do* any of that. 2021-07-09 15:17:37 RT @AllTechIsHuman: New roles posted on our Responsible Tech Job Board! We curate positions focused on reducing the harms of tech, diversi… 2021-07-09 15:07:05 RT @Reductress: This Woman Convinced Her Coworkers She Was Friendly and Approachable by Only Using Gmail Auto-Responses: https://t.co/FV0Lx… 2021-07-09 15:05:15 RT @TiltR: By popular request, the AI Act diagrams I have made so far. https://t.co/5BnyLj2B2K 2021-07-09 15:04:52 RT @TiltR: https://t.co/V6yDWxtuxd 2021-07-09 15:03:17 RT @Abebab: there's nothing more torturing than trying to read though a bad paper, which you can't ignore because it is by the "pioneers" o… 2021-07-08 16:36:30 @SecFightClub @TedOnPrivacy @thedarktangent @timnitGebru Love this picture! 2021-07-08 16:35:58 @TedOnPrivacy @timnitGebru ! I'm honored. Thank you for seeing what happened & 2021-07-08 15:32:03 RT @mona_sloane: New paper out w/ @ruchowdh & 2021-07-08 15:19:36 RT @Miles_Brundage: Excited to finally share a paper on what a huge chunk of OpenAI has been working on lately: building a series of code g… 2021-07-07 21:29:23 Missing my former Google colleagues a lot today. =( 2021-05-22 19:51:51 @_KarenHao @timnitGebru Thanks for this! 2021-05-22 19:51:34 Check out @_KarenHao's great piece on LLMs to better understand the scientific discussions around the firing of me & 2021-05-22 18:52:15 RT @DrAnneCarpenter: Are you an expert in ethical and trustworthy AI? There's an NIH funding opportunity to collaborate on biomedical data… 2021-05-22 18:48:43 @Bari10 @puntofisso They're artificial generators of exciting novels in full! 2021-05-21 22:41:32 @acidflask @AIESConf Haha. It was great to meet you! 2021-05-21 21:56:24 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: Come join us at #NAACL2021 June 9th for "NLP Women in the Time of Corona: Adaptations & 2021-05-21 18:03:57 @overleaf @vukosi @jackbandy @nickmvincent cc: @mahimapushkarna @ZaldivarPhD 2021-05-21 18:00:01 @beausievers Exactly. That is exactly my fear. 2021-05-21 17:51:03 A fear that keeps me up at night is how LLMs can be militarized for mass misinformation (targeting adversaries) and propaganda (targeting those controlled), infinitely. https://t.co/pHWs3rku8w 2021-05-20 21:44:45 RT @_KarenHao: Ever since Google fired @timnitGebru & 2021-05-20 21:44:16 RT @AJLUnited: Join AJL in telling @CBS to #CiteBlackWomen like @jovialjoy, @timnitGebru, @rajiinio & 2021-05-20 05:32:58 RT @_alialkhatib: at the end of the page i list ~40 people in various fields, studying stuff that intersects with my work. at those interse… 2021-05-19 23:40:08 RT @TwitterEng: In our latest blog post, we’re sharing the findings from our image cropping algorithm analysis and exploring ways to create… 2021-05-19 23:39:35 RT @sacnas: We've extended the deadline to apply for both research presentations (https://t.co/U8Bodrwq7T) and registration scholarships (h… 2021-05-19 23:24:07 @banazir @timnitGebru @jovialjoy @rajiinio @AJLUnited @red_abebe @L_badikho @emilymbender @HabenGirma @AIESConf @cajundiscordian Same! 2021-05-19 23:22:53 @widdowson @jhscott @timnitGebru Thanks both. =) And Jacob, yeah, of the {me, Timnit} pair, it was me in this neck o' the woods at Goog. We had different projects, altho also worked together on some projects. Either way, my contribution was minor but I love the tool and really excited the team launched this. 2021-05-19 21:00:44 RT @banazir: Something I greatly respect and admire about @timnitGebru is how she never lets her peers go unrecognized: not only co-authors… 2021-05-19 20:42:04 RT @dsmilkov: Thank you for your ideas and suggestions on the tool, and especially the nPMI idea which became the Relations tab! https://t.… 2021-05-19 20:41:57 Some of the awesome engineers behind KYD are @nsthorat & 2021-05-19 20:24:21 RT @priyakalot: Curious about how AI researchers are thinking about the societal consequences of their work? We (@JessicaHullman @ndiakopo… 2021-05-19 20:22:58 RT @DMulliganUCB: Come hear @timnitGebru Moving beyond the Fairness Rhetoric in AI @ 1pm pacific @AIESConf Dr. Gebru is at the center of t… 2021-05-19 18:06:38 New really cool tool from Google to analyze your datasets. I was able to help with this and I'm sad not to be there for this announcement. It's neat and useful, and has a lot more awesome stuff on the roadmap. https://t.co/VMYB3rDYAZ 2021-05-19 17:26:36 @emilymbender @timnitGebru I think one thing that these public statements do is show the world how an energetic, happy, ambitious scholar might become increasingly frustrated, angry, and alienated, and how the intensity of that would increase the harder they worked. 2021-05-19 17:01:21 Incredible piece, bringing disparate pieces together to make a compelling case about what the role of future Google may be. Incorporates what happened to me and @timnitGebru . Thanks for this great work @MiaD ! https://t.co/Bz0VzrTioK 2021-05-18 23:53:48 @emilymbender @Google @timnitGebru An apology would have stopped so much of this damage. 2021-05-18 23:52:51 Appreciate that @richardjnieva was able to communicate with Google/Jeff Dean for the first time about their handling of me and @timnitGebru! And reported on it, even when he could have reported on I/O. And he distinguished between "resign" and "resignate"! =) https://t.co/rP2pSACGjM 2021-05-18 21:27:56 @andrewthesmart I'm gonna start using a duck call for each slide now instead. 2021-05-18 18:37:49 @jackclarkSF https://t.co/ZFoydd7pr7 2021-05-18 18:28:49 @emilymbender @Google @timnitGebru Thank you for highlighting. I feel like the gaslighting @timnitGebru and I dealt with has sprung into the public...as erasure of our work while trying to convince the world they've been prioritizing it (even though it seems we were fired for working on it). It's so surreal. 2021-05-18 16:53:45 @emilymbender @evanmiltenburg I want to be involved in this! Can we all do a paper on it? 2021-05-17 22:19:48 RT @mbirna: “That’s when I fully understood what Meg was building with the Ethical AI team. [...] what she was building was a model of how… 2021-05-17 19:55:36 RT @cajundiscordian: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru The coverage of this story has largely centered on Google and its executives. I thought tha… 2021-05-17 19:41:11 This article on how I founded the Ethical AI team was so thoughtful it made me cry. Thank you with all my heart, @cajundiscordian, for your kindness and selflessness. I am honored and thankful to know you. https://t.co/IHSk6vSfNK 2021-05-14 21:29:03 Way to go to my favorite former co-lead @timnitGebru for being recognized by Fortune as one of the World's Greatest Leaders!!! https://t.co/CGUM833C7X 2021-05-14 19:22:29 RT @haydenfield: Google will 2x its AI ethics research staff after 5 mo of turmoil. To some employees & One… 2021-05-13 02:43:57 RT @arjunsubgraph: @mmitchell_ai Loved this paper! Such important research :) I'm currently building out AllenNLP's fairness and bias mitig… 2021-05-12 18:44:24 @EhudReiter Way to go!! That's my goal. 2021-05-12 18:39:23 @ZoeSchiffer @rachelmetz @timnitGebru Ok it was just me. 2021-05-12 18:39:14 @ZoeSchiffer @rachelmetz @timnitGebru Some of us went with a general name of "Ethiconsible Artificial Machine Intelligence Learning", but it didn't stick. 2021-05-12 18:22:00 Developing straightforward methods to avert harm and discrimination with AI is critical right now. Stoked to share new work on how to surface tons of stereotypes that a model has learned -- all without supervision. Easy and very powerful. AIES'21. https://t.co/2qfbv60H5Z 2021-05-11 18:22:22 RT @cazencott: @tpoi @black_in_ai and @QueerinAI no longer take funding from Google, in protest of Google’s treatment of @timnitGebru and @… 2021-05-11 16:15:44 Widening NLP (https://t.co/w8cyS8P8Zs) makes the natural language processing field inclusive to people who are women, LGBTQ+, Black, or who'd otherwise be excluded. Their work fixing exclusion now includes me @timnitGebru @RealAbril. Thank you @WiNLPWorkshop for this sacrifice. https://t.co/gMcdZrvFfC 2021-05-11 15:57:19 RT @marylgray: this is (some of) what intersectional politics in tech scholarship looks like https://t.co/jNIRZ5EBht 2021-05-10 21:44:49 RT @WiNLPWorkshop: In collaboration with @black_in_ai and @QueerinAI, we have decided to suspend our sponsorship relationship with @google… 2021-05-10 17:25:57 RT @PrincetonCS: Check out the Q& 2021-05-10 17:18:22 WOW. Thank you Queer in AI, Black in AI, and Widening NLP for this massive kindness, understanding, support & @timnitGebru @RealAbril https://t.co/4xDiZrSXcK 2021-05-10 17:13:29 @kharijohnson @DrVeronikaCH @WIRED @black_in_ai @QueerinAI @WiNLPWorkshop Honored to be in your first WIRED article!! Thank you for covering! 2021-05-10 17:05:53 RT @kharijohnson: For my first @wired story I spoke with @black_in_ai, @QueerinAI, and @WiNLPWorkshop organizers about why the three organi… 2021-05-10 17:04:45 RT @QueerinAI: Announcement: We have decided to end our sponsorship relationship with @google. Together with @blackinai and @winlpworksho… 2021-05-09 20:23:08 (literal erasure) 2021-05-09 20:22:32 Q to #ACL community: Why do style files delete everyone who have worked on em except for Noah & 2021-05-07 16:34:05 RT @KhoaVuUmn: Trying to insert a table at the position that I want in LaTeX https://t.co/Ya9LGcre6V 2021-05-07 16:28:27 RT @the_female_lead: "It actually doesn't take much to be considered a difficult woman. That's why there are so many of us." Jane Goodall.… 2021-05-07 16:27:17 RT @timnitGebru: How big is too big? Too big is too big to be documented. Think about how much time and effort you should be putting into c… 2021-05-07 16:27:10 RT @timnitGebru: Invited talk by @emilymbender and @mcmillan_majora on the workshop on large language models at @iclr_conf. Despite everyth… 2021-05-04 17:10:40 @MiaD @DataSciBae @timnitGebru @csdoctorsister @Abebab @rajiinio @jovialjoy @math_rachel @alexhanna @mer__edith @ruha9 @red_abebe @debraruh @hannawallach @LatanyaSweeney @katecrawford This is gorgeous!! 2021-05-03 22:36:45 @timnitGebru Grrr. I dont think I "[took] company data". I hate reading stuff like that, it freaks me out and makes me sound nefarious. Sorry, this isn't the Meg show. Yay Samy!! 2021-05-03 18:08:39 RT @DorotheaBaur: Current #AI risks "arguably outweigh the benefits, but the potential benefits are large and worth pursuing": AI may prope… 2021-05-03 16:40:01 Aww, this is a sweet article that directly recognizes some of my thoughts in the AI ethics space. https://t.co/SfJ9CrRy2i 2021-05-03 16:39:25 RT @emilymbender: Fantastic talk and Q& Among other things I really appreciate how Timnit is unerasing the… 2021-05-03 15:27:42 RT @bobehayes: #Ethics of #AI: Benefits and risks of #artificialintelligence | @TiernanRayTech https://t.co/kCte8zrkXd @timnitGebru @mmi… 2021-05-02 17:09:24 My former report w @timnitGebru, @L_badikho , became a focused target for some groups once our team was in the press. He's been increasingly harassed, threatened. RTing here bc I'm concerned about him being physically found & 2021-04-27 18:34:44 @wsisaac @AmandaAskell @FAccTConference That's what I did!! I 1.5ed speeded the three talks for each session, then could check mail and stuff before the Q& 2021-04-27 18:33:37 @XandaSchofield I feel weird now when I'm NOT wearing one. 2021-04-27 18:32:54 @narges_razavian That's really interesting, thanks for sharing! 2021-04-27 18:31:18 @yoavgo @nlpnoah This should still be being done, IMO. It's extra work for PCs to ensure a continual reviewer in-flow (as well as sending regular reminders), but it's necessary for getting reasonable reviews. Bitchy emails to reviewers with life struggles is completely inappropriate. 2021-04-27 18:27:05 @yoavgo @nlpnoah We were doing FAccT reviewing as COVID and BLM were deeply affecting so many peoples' lives. People were late for things, or disappeared entirely. We handled it by just actively recruiting reviewers the whole time, so there was a continual in-flow to help with the out-flow. 2021-04-27 18:22:21 @yoavgo @nlpnoah Ew. 2021-04-27 17:52:55 A potential difficulty w improving racism/sexism at a corp is that improvements can create a liability trail. In that view, if you have 2 individuals clearly documenting necessary changes and creating a measurable DEI delta, you have to fire them to hide evidence. @timnitGebru https://t.co/Dklg3bo1xV 2021-04-27 17:47:25 RT @openmicmedia: They're not only fighting against this one, they're also fighting a proposal on government censorship & 2021-04-27 17:44:18 RT @veenadubal: Ideas are not invented. They are built through conversations and relationships with friends, colleagues, communities of peo… 2021-04-27 17:17:15 RT @mohitban47: Wow, be KIND! Sharing #CovidIndia posts is a tiny effort to give info to family/frnds fighting for things as basic as OXY… 2021-04-27 05:10:42 @timnitGebru @JeffDean Well yeah. We're not real people. The people who could make this right certainly don't see anything wrong with it. How we should be treated vs. how a piece of trash should be treated is indistinguishable, so media attention is basically just a confusing annoyance. 2021-04-27 04:56:18 @timnitGebru We might as well be saying banana banana banana banana. 2021-04-27 04:56:04 @timnitGebru Just days after he fired you, he started targeting his energy on a kind of "take down" paper to fight against that one sentence in Section 3. That was his priority. Samy resigned over what Jeff did 2021-04-27 04:54:24 @timnitGebru We can tag him to try and get through that this is wrong, and he was entrusted with our careers, and that they were important careers, and he could still do right, but it just doesn't ever seem to register. That's why we're in this position in the first place... 2021-04-27 01:35:47 @timnitGebru Ugh this is gonna take forever to actually matter enough to anyone to change it in any way. https://t.co/ufwlQeJTvS 2021-04-27 00:02:22 @timnitGebru @JeffDean Yeah I don't see why though. As far as I can tell, they're actively and publicly breaking laws, and very personally targeting me, but it doesn't matter. So why not steal my bike too? It meets a goal of personal harm, and law doesn't appear to matter. 2021-04-26 23:45:42 @mer__edith @timnitGebru ...But it is arguably not actually legal, nor should it be. 2021-04-26 23:45:08 @mer__edith @timnitGebru And, interrogation tactics. I continue to believe that a corporation's policy should not infringe on basic human rights. I said this as I was being interrogated. It might be your "policy" to engage in entrapment, anger, accusations, and misdirection.... 2021-04-26 23:39:44 @mer__edith @timnitGebru "Policy" seems to be used as a loophole to break the law. Example could be "right after we were accused of X, we started deleting emails that showed X by implementing a new mail deletion policy. It's not evidence destruction, but a policy update that happens to destroy evidence." 2021-04-26 23:34:21 @mer__edith @timnitGebru Yeah, a few facts here to notice: "Sensitive" isn't a type of doc at Google. They'll call a single word or letter a "sensitive document". They appear to append this essentially meaningless term when targeting individuals, in order to imply nefarious behavior when there isn't any. 2021-04-26 23:11:16 @timnitGebru @JeffDean And I LIKED that bike! I spent money on it! 2021-04-26 23:10:54 @timnitGebru @JeffDean I didn't even get that! They stole my bike! 2021-04-26 20:21:13 I continue to be deeply appreciative of the ever-growing group of people I was able to work alongside, and astounded by how much impact we were able to make in morphing and shaping what it means to create AI at Google. 2021-04-26 20:20:57 The narrative that seems to being re-written here by a small set of Googlers (comms, Kent, Jeff?)--suggesting none of this, nor me specifically, was worth anything--is harmful to so many of the people, incl VPs & 2021-04-26 20:14:04 The punchline here is that I love, love, love the collaborators I was able to work with every day. We grew and grew over the years and had hit a cross-Google momentum & 2021-04-26 20:12:23 This doesn't address the external awards and recognition we got for our work throughout. It's just a subsampling to demonstrate just how dedicated we were to our work, and the progress we were making -- with the many collaborators I had the pleasure of working alongside with. 2021-04-26 20:07:31 Throughout 2020, we start to see an outpouring of papers from collaborators across Google making concrete progress on nuanced issues, pointing to one another complementarily. For example, FAccT alone featured work from 16 Googlers all collaborating: https://t.co/b7gHbbNIqs 2021-04-26 19:16:08 We see the substantive internal uptake on the more nitty-gritty specifics of fairness-informed evaluation in projects a large group of us plugged into, e.g.: - Fairness Indicators - Model Card Toolkit - Tensorflow scikit-learn https://t.co/pcj1Ocm3yR https://t.co/cebT2D3V0s 2021-04-26 19:00:54 By 2019's end, one of my core projects, Model Cards, appeared in launches from Cloud, Computer Vision Research & https://t.co/rO2OQry8dJ 2021-04-26 18:55:53 What continued to be so critical for us Google-wide was educating others as we ourselves learned. We see some of the key aspects of this @ I/O 2019, featuring my work in 2 presos and presented by some of my favorite collaborators. https://t.co/Y1kBBq1Gmt https://t.co/OfTc0jUZWf 2021-04-24 21:49:21 Even writing this, I am filled w Google anxiety bc I represent myself above as a qualified reviewer. I'm just trying to explain where I'm coming from & 2021-04-24 21:27:49 @tifotter Same. I tried to go by "M" very hard. It didn't end up working because I had too much of an external presence as "Meg". But like many women at Google, my avatar was never a picture of me. 2021-04-24 21:15:12 Eventually I became numb to it. Eventually I "made waves" when all I felt was an alienating hostility, and I needed and wanted help. I cried out for help. I told hundreds of Googlers on mailing lists how I struggled with pain and fear. This "made waves". The problem was about me. 2021-04-24 21:13:40 It was this that "made waves". I tried so hard to always, always do the right thing. But I didn't say it "in the right way". An email spent hours on trying to craft just right to be true and friendly was called a "tantrum"...18/ 2021-04-24 21:12:20 So I spoke up more, because I would lose any way. I was treated with hostility when I succeeded. But for all of the Googley modes of behavior I picked up, I would not give up being an external researcher...17/ 2021-04-24 21:11:24 And still was harmed even further. Reported to Ethics & 2021-04-24 21:10:39 And so I would go give talks, and publish, and be treated with so much respect externally it was jarring and overwhelming. Didn't they KNOW I didn't really have value? Hadn't they HEARD? I enveloped myself in what Google thought of me and how Google wanted me to behave. 15/ 2021-04-24 21:09:04 I didn't WANT to make any waves. I just came into Google with the apparently very wrong-headed idea that I would be treated as a full person and scholar the same way my male peers were. It was wrong of me. I was wrong. 14/ 2021-04-24 21:07:37 All I wanted was to be the researcher I had worked my entire career to be. This made me insubordinate. This "made waves"...13/ 2021-04-24 21:06:56 I felt alienated, and scared, and anxious. And I tried to stand up for myself. And no one would listen. The groupthink about how someone who looked like me should behave was so thick it didn't seem people could see past it. It was this that "made waves"...12/ 2021-04-24 21:05:47 Intense and hostile territorialism began to rain down on me as my papers were accepted where my L7+ superiors' papers weren't being accepted. I watched as they maneuvered their seniority at Google to try to assert themselves as the leaders in the area, including excluding me..11/ 2021-04-24 21:02:16 But still I wasn't good enough. As I watched women who were more similar to me be treated way below their worth, I began asking to include them. It was this that "made waves". It was this that was un-Googley....10/ 2021-04-24 21:01:31 I tried so hard to fit into this mold. I began copy+pasting how other women talked to try and make me sound like it. But I wasn't good enough at it. Writing objective emails like, "Okay, let's meet then" was aggressive and antagonistic. I began apologizing as much as I could...9/ 2021-04-24 21:00:24 What I found was that they apologized all over themselves. They used the word "just" a lot 2021-04-24 20:59:05 As someone who has been a peer reviewer for over a decade, I was very good at reviewing peer work & 2021-04-24 18:06:38 @johnpavlovitz I was just trying to write something like this this morning. Wow, you nailed it. Weird coincidence, and thank you. 2021-04-24 18:05:57 Was trying to articulate today on Twitter what it meant to be trying hard every day to exist and never being good enough. @johnpavlovitz just nailed it. This could be about me. https://t.co/ZcInidXGOV 2021-04-24 18:03:23 RT @johnpavlovitz: I'm telling you this because it isn't easy for us to tell you. It is difficult to say, "Sorry I couldn't make it, I fe… 2021-04-24 18:01:35 RT @abraham066: Facial recognition should be banned, EU #privacy watchdog says @AnnCavoukian https://t.co/ogYU2ipS45 2021-04-24 18:00:36 RT @whereistanya: Your staff-plus engineers are your engineering culture. You get more of whatever you promote. 2021-04-24 17:58:07 RT @SeeTedTalk: bravo to #naacl2021 for bringing registration fees back down to earth. early 125/25 (by may 20) https://t.co/5kn0UdajBB 2021-04-24 17:09:06 RT @alexhern: This won't reach the Tech Ethics circles because Americans will ignore the story, but these convictions are one of the worst… 2021-04-24 17:09:00 @alexhern It's reached the Tech Ethics circles! Thanks for sharing. 2021-04-24 06:03:06 RT @Miles_Brundage: By GPT-3 level LMs I mean in terms if compute - algorithmic progress will enable more performance/FLOP over time, so GP… 2021-04-24 06:02:46 RT @Miles_Brundage: “The future is already here - it’s just not evenly distributed” is a bit cliche but is very true of large language mode… 2021-04-23 23:15:46 RT @mona_sloane: Why we need a transatlantic dialogue on the #risk of #AI — my and @profAndreaRenda's thoughts on the new EC #AI regulation… 2021-04-23 20:38:12 @barbara_plank @PaolaMerlo20 @rtsarfaty @TiedemannJoerg Thank YOU! 2021-04-23 20:08:38 @timnitGebru I don't lie, and I'm honest, transparent, and value-driven to a fault. The fact that Google's narrative appears to try to assert the opposite is very personal. 2021-04-23 20:07:11 @timnitGebru Dislike the "furtive" connotation. I didn't do anything furtive...that's not who I am. I talked to everyone transparently about everything. I was being targeted in the investigation, cried out to management to please please help me, told everyone everything in real time. 2021-04-23 19:58:22 RT @melvinmperalta: Q3: @jovialjoy invites us to think about empathy, vulnerability, and other ways of being human within our technology.… 2021-04-23 19:44:56 @DeepTechBro @timnitGebru Nope. That's why they said "sensitive". 2021-04-23 19:43:01 @DeepTechBro @timnitGebru Yeah, I get that people are interpreting "sensitive" to mean "confidential". I believe that was their goal. No, I did not exfiltrate confidential data (that I know of). 2021-04-23 19:37:34 RT @wsisaac: https://t.co/luBsabSW1a 2021-04-23 19:36:12 RT @FrankPasquale: “The bigger concern here is the bias unnoticed or unaccounted for. Tobia reports that only three of the 30-odd cases to… 2021-04-23 19:18:39 @ylecun Both the person(s) formulating, as well as others who are independent. =) 2021-04-23 19:12:54 Fantastic talk from @MelMitchell1 on what AI currently is, how it differs from human intelligence, and the paths forward. Check out the recording if you get a chance! #EACL2021 2021-04-23 19:05:56 RT @AlejandroPiad: @mmitchell_ai @TaliaRinger @Jay5w @mark_riedl @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean But this is not something to rejoice… 2021-04-23 18:22:57 RT @ben_j_lindsay: Here's a summary of all the statistical errors: Type I: False Negative Type II: False Positive Type III: Mixing up fals… 2021-04-23 18:05:43 @olivia_p_walker @dlauer @timnitGebru @JeffDean Really appreciate your empathy and support. It always cheers me up. 2021-04-23 18:04:54 @TaliaRinger @AlejandroPiad @Jay5w @mark_riedl @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean This is why so many women are forced to become more and more like warriors as they progress. With the intensity that Google shot us out with -- imagine what the pressure cooker must have been like. Some say "glass ceiling", but that makes it sound way too easy. 2021-04-23 17:11:02 RT @luke_stark: @_KarenHao @katecrawford Great to see @radical_ai_ 's work last year in @nature reiterated here! https://t.co/hZ9XmztNRy 2021-04-23 05:38:58 @timnitGebru I liked learning it! 2021-04-22 19:25:53 @attackackack @atomicthumbs @hotgirlhala Oh no! Too many things to worry about. 2021-04-22 19:24:21 RT @myrthereuver: An #EACL2021 paper that also hits a recent interest of mine: annotator bias, whether there is "ground truth" for complex… 2021-04-22 18:29:32 When I wonder about how welcomed female computer research scientists (CRS) are in an org, I often look at papers with lots of authors and examine the male : female CRS ratio. Below is an example of a "boys club" paper, and would be an indication not to join the org. @timnitGebru https://t.co/cQ7fBoZWvL 2021-04-22 18:26:02 RT @Miles_Brundage: Pretty wild Google put out a long paper on "Carbon Emissions and Large Neural Network Training", with a focus on LMs, a… 2021-04-22 18:25:34 The key to inclusion is to stop excluding. The key to inclusion is to stop excluding. The key to inclusion is to stop excluding. https://t.co/cQ7fBoZWvL 2021-04-22 18:24:38 RT @sherrying: @Miles_Brundage @emilymbender @timnitGebru Woah. The "Presence of Absence" we call it in art. Shaking head. 2021-04-22 18:17:20 @jackclarkSF But what about the benefits. 2021-04-22 17:33:41 @hotgirlhala Careful that a review doesn't become an interrogation. If you have to talk to anyone, bring a lawyer. I doubt they would subject a non-employee to interrogation, but they do use interrogation tactics internally for this type of problem. 2021-04-22 17:28:32 RT @_alialkhatib: this is why i can't take google researchers seriously anymore. i am left to assume that each author is either consciously… 2021-04-22 17:19:37 "epistemological violence". @natemurthy lays out exactly the issues so beautifully. https://t.co/E7TBqYmUai 2021-04-22 17:17:22 RT @databoydg: @tdietterich @mmitchell_ai @tejuafonja I actually can’t fit all my thoughts into tweets. #citeblackwomen has been a movemen… 2021-04-22 17:16:51 @natemurthy @timnitGebru @JeffDean This is amazing. Thank you. 2021-04-22 17:14:02 RT @dinabass: Before Google's Ethical AI group imploded over @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai ousters it was mired in conflict over harassme… 2021-04-22 17:04:30 RT @natemurthy: @timnitGebru @JeffDean I felt like sending the authors an email this morning https://t.co/ZidIttdT6G 2021-04-22 08:29:51 @Miles_Brundage I thought that said, 'Forgot how good Mr. Roboto is', and I thought, how could you?! 2021-04-22 03:18:57 @Miles_Brundage @emilymbender @timnitGebru I heard he had also tried to say he was writing this paper with Emma Strubell when he was not. Guess it didn't work. 2021-04-22 03:15:18 This is a great example of what we mean when we say "erasure". Here it is in action. Be it obvious citations, docs, or meetings, this is what it looks like. https://t.co/cQ7fBoZWvL 2021-04-22 03:14:34 RT @jlkoepke: @geomblog @Miles_Brundage more than "how hard would it have been" ... pretty damn hypocritical after folks at Google claimed… 2021-04-22 03:14:24 RT @geomblog: @Miles_Brundage Pity it didn't go thru an internal review where .... I don't know ..... people might have asked to cite relev… 2021-04-22 03:14:04 @timnitGebru @JeffDean This is a perfect example of "erasure". Also cc @rajiinio 2021-04-22 03:10:09 RT @erikashimizu: Companies build credibility for advancing equity off of women’s backs then punish us for not breaking. We know it, but we… 2021-04-22 03:09:19 @manaalfar Oh cool that happened to me last year. Be careful. 2021-04-21 23:46:30 @FrankPasquale @timnitGebru I was particularly interested in figuring out how well the systems perform on people with different ability statuses that are visually different than default pedestrian-- eg, people in wheelchairs, people with spinal diseases. For internal-only research, it seems obvious to do... 2021-04-21 23:32:55 RT @FrankPasquale: The important work of @mmitchell_ai & 2021-04-21 21:16:50 @GooberPyle5 @emilymbender @timnitGebru Wow. Thanks for pointing out this unfortunate complementary metaphor. 2021-04-21 21:16:08 Wow... https://t.co/bwQGufjRwr 2021-04-21 21:16:01 RT @GooberPyle5: @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai Compare & "And I used to say, I'm trying to pave a path forward using… 2021-04-21 21:15:36 RT @_jack_poulson: I cannot emphasize enough how clear it is to me who this is referring to and how long it has been an open secret. And I… 2021-04-21 21:14:45 RT @emilymbender: To finish this unwieldy thread: go read the whole article. @NicoAGrant @dinabass and @josheidelson did excellent reportin… 2021-04-21 21:14:29 RT @emilymbender: @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai I also find it really troubling that Ed Lazowska is quoted with a paragraph-long character ref… 2021-04-21 21:14:13 RT @emilymbender: I hadn't known that particular detail, but surely the research in our paper can only be understood as groundwork for ex… 2021-04-21 21:12:38 RT @timnitGebru: This whole saga has given @mmitchell_ai and I even more appreciation for @emilymbender’s incredible advocacy in addition… 2021-04-21 19:53:38 @timnitGebru No clue. 2021-04-21 19:52:27 @uxorbust 2021-04-21 19:51:36 RT @uxorbust: "...I used to say, I'm trying to pave a path forward using myself as the pavement." - @mmitchell_ai Well, this might be my… 2021-04-21 19:48:51 @statsepi @mathbabedotorg I call linear regression AI myself. Also anything else that's coded. I used to call things what they were, but no one outside of CS/Stats got the "gist". Now people get the gist. 2021-04-21 19:47:28 @emilymbender @timnitGebru It's been amazing to have your support. 2021-04-21 17:12:57 @alienelf @timnitGebru I know. I was helping when @JeffDean fired me. 2021-04-21 17:12:07 RT @NicoAGrant: Google’s Ethical AI team publicly imploded after the ouster of its lead scientists, @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai. But for… 2021-04-21 17:11:04 Thank you to @dinabass @NicoAGrant @josheidelson for covering the difficult story of me & 2021-04-21 17:07:52 RT @ZoeSchiffer: I'm working on a larger project about how NDAs are used to encourage a code of silence in Silicon Valley. If you work in t… 2021-04-21 04:48:53 RT @timnitGebru: During the BLM protest related to this @JeffDean I organized people to organize a presentation. We cried in front of thous… 2021-04-20 21:32:25 RT @meenaharris: Rest in power, George Floyd. 2021-04-20 21:32:22 RT @DLamontJenkins: "It's not the end of something. It's the start of something."-- Brother outside the courthouse just now. 2021-04-20 21:32:05 RT @itsghastlycrew: Cops are gonna be real mad today though so everyone take care 2021-04-20 21:19:33 RT @Sifill_LDF: Shedding tears for #GeorgeFloyd’s family, for the witnesses and community traumatized by this killing. For those who protes… 2021-04-20 21:19:14 RT @Sifill_LDF: Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Critical to hear the firm voice of each juror affirming that this is their verdict. #ChauvinVerdict 2021-04-20 21:19:08 RT @Theophite: don't forget what just a little bit of justice feels like, because we still need to be hungry for it 2021-04-20 21:18:35 RT @EricaJoy: i am in tears. it’s about time. 2021-04-20 21:18:31 @EricaJoy Same. 2021-04-20 21:08:19 GUILTY! 2021-04-20 18:31:15 RT @dlauer: This is a really important point. In our efforts to increase transparency on Wall St, we were often met with this concern - tha… 2021-04-20 18:21:57 If transparency increases liability, then what will happen is opacity and worse harm, not less. 2021-04-20 18:21:17 This is a big deal. While I agree with the FTC in spirit, in practice, I'm concerned there should be more attention paid to protecting companies that are *trying* to improve and being transparent about it. Companies demonstrating *due diligence*. https://t.co/gV7az8G1Ow 2021-04-20 18:07:55 @simoneballoccu I disagree this is censoring, but I have a lot more info about what the backend is doing. What's important here is that identifying weapons deserves its own, dedicated model, and that prob won't be one you can randomly use for free on a demo site. 2021-04-20 18:03:56 @gchrupala @yoavgo Sidenote, this is why it's critical in Ethical AI development to move beyond "it's just the user who matters" view to the "it's everyone affected" view. If your AI can cause existential harm that you knowingly created, then you've not developed it on a human-value-aligned path. 2021-04-19 20:13:19 RT @BLACKSTEMUSA: Is it possible for a Black person to get fired for doing an incredibly fantastic job for an employer? Yes. https://t.co… 2021-04-19 18:47:12 @ylecun @adjiboussodieng @Moustapha_6C @ynd @RaiaHadsell Oh, my timeline graphic is getting long. =) This is amazing to see! 2021-04-19 18:42:13 @yoavgo @evanmiltenburg I have a lot of answers to this, but do want to keep some close to the chest so that my ideas can be operationalized appropriately if I join another company. But you are inspiring me to put up this other paper on Arxiv tackling some of these issues...ok, getting off twitter. 2021-04-19 18:37:57 @yoavgo @gchrupala Btw, this isn't just one API or app AFAIK, it is standard not to list all labels in large label spaces. 2021-04-19 18:35:26 @yoavgo @gchrupala It might be the Black Box viewpoint that most people have. What comes out of ML systems is magical, so the thought there might be a finite set of labels isn't as much considered. But shortly I will follow up with another paper on addressing this problem too... 2021-04-19 18:30:23 @yoavgo @gchrupala Same. More battles to fight, where you find yourself asking, "Wait, why is this a battle? I have other crap to do." 2021-04-19 18:26:36 @gchrupala @yoavgo How many times have you been puzzled and annoyed that you could not find your gorilla label when not using a dedicated wildlife app? Is that puzzling and annoyance more important to address than the corresponding perpetuation of serious historical discrimination? 2021-04-19 18:24:52 @yoavgo @andrewthesmart @alexhanna @xpuff_xtina Yah, we were making great progress, with papers coming out covering so many nuances of a massive complex whole. "Need an answer to this question emerging from this paper? See our other paper answering said question!!!" We had so much momentum. 2021-04-19 18:21:54 @gchrupala @yoavgo Also recall that for general purpose tagging, you might be the user, but you are not the only one who can be affected. Anything you tag can be shared/amplified anywhere. It should not just be you under consideration here--the "agent"--but rather everyone affected--the recipients. 2021-04-19 18:17:25 @gchrupala @yoavgo Does this mean you expect some particular set of labels to be there? 2021-04-19 18:15:38 @yoavgo @andrewthesmart @alexhanna @xpuff_xtina Oh, typos. Sorry world. =( 2021-04-19 18:14:36 @yoavgo ...See our paper on this very topic of responsible dataset construction at at FAccT! https://t.co/uV6RyPyWWT With @andrewthesmart , @alexhanna , @xpuff_xtina among the more Twitter-usery authors. 2021-04-19 18:12:35 @yoavgo Put another way, in responsible dataset construction, you specify exactly what you need for each foreseeable use, and collect data following those specifications. The "let's just grab the internet" approach comes can be contrasted with the "data design requirements" approach..3/ 2021-04-19 18:09:20 @yoavgo If the answer is, "I'm not sure", then the trick is to go through the labels and assess which ones will create more harm than benefit in context. Minimally, drop those, and consider creating dedicated models for each in order to best mitigate any harm that can come from using it. 2021-04-19 18:06:17 @yoavgo One point is how the model will be used. If it's a general tagger predominantly used for personal photo tagging, then would you even think "gorilla" would be available? How about "fern"? "Hatstand? The q is: What labels do we want for this app wrt how it is used in context? 1/... 2021-04-19 16:04:53 @beausievers I think about that a lot too. I was just thinking Bowie left at a good time. Eesh. 2021-04-19 15:59:24 @anyabelz Thank you for inviting me!! 2021-04-19 15:58:55 @myrthereuver Thank you!! =D Glad it was ok. My 8:00am brain is zzzz 2021-04-19 15:58:35 RT @myrthereuver: I really enjoyed this talk. It really helped me think about evaluation pipelines as more complex than simply one benchm… 2021-04-19 15:57:55 RT @timnitGebru: We got fired for step 1 so... https://t.co/E3QjSKaTBV 2021-04-19 14:30:26 cc: @timnitGebru 2021-04-19 14:30:01 @ylecun @adjiboussodieng @Moustapha_6C @ynd @RaiaHadsell LOVE THIS, thank you!! Will add all 2021-04-19 14:28:30 Preparing for a talk on Robust Evaluation. Conclusions include the need for resources on specific aspects of robust evaluation. See: What One Gets Fired For When One Is Doing Their Job Well. Depressing conclusion slide. https://t.co/3Po0U3NTRu 2021-04-19 05:07:34 RT @chelseyglasson: Google also lied in telling the EEOC that my receiving a "Needs Improvement" calibration score came with no implication… 2021-04-19 03:55:26 @chelseyglasson So ridiculous. =( One of the worst parts is the lack of empathy or humanity from above. Like really really really wanting to convince you that you are an object. 2021-04-19 03:54:25 RT @chelseyglasson: This week my attorneys are deposing the Google director who is a named defendant in my lawsuit. This person announced a… 2021-04-19 03:52:00 @chelseyglasson All our stories have similarities, and all are identical in this: 1 Abuse of power from mgmt to harm someone below them 2 Victim speaking up 3 HR pointing at the victim as the problem 4 Environment becoming too alienating and hostile for victim 5 Victim suffers career harm 2021-04-19 03:48:18 RT @chelseyglasson: I wish I could have had access to this level of sisterhood when I was still at Google. Regardless, I’m incredibly thank… 2021-04-19 03:36:11 Sigh. 2021-04-19 03:33:10 @timnitGebru @JeffDean See, your problem is thinking that harassment and bullying is a *bad* thing. For tech minorities, it's what we're all aiming for, right right? 2021-04-19 03:16:28 Friends/colleagues still at G00gz: Please look out for people on our team. Some are receiving hostility and alienation from management 2021-04-19 03:09:13 Before being fired, I detailed for @JeffDean & 2021-04-19 00:20:31 This is a key strategy in co-leading. When you're in a marginalized group, you always have someone who sees what's happening. You always have a witness. https://t.co/UomKJ3QZPE 2021-04-18 22:02:16 @timnitGebru @yoavgo @hannawallach @jennwvaughan 100% 2021-04-18 22:01:05 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan ¯\_()_/¯ But AFAIK, consensus isn't required (and would be impossible anyway). Just a "critical mass". I could potentially see PAI arguing both sides of an issue... 2021-04-18 21:46:47 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan It's just a question of who the partners are, and what they want to do. This is why it is so so so critical for each organization to think about who the best rep could be for a common good, as opposed to choosing...ya know. The dude who has been at the company the longest. 2021-04-18 21:45:53 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan E.g., I thought it was a MASSIVE move for the PAI to argue against California’s Senate Bill 10 (S.B. 10), and there was corresponding work on risks: https://t.co/HdCzbeRIqg 2021-04-18 21:43:57 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan Everything is on the table, as far as I know. Whose-ideas-are-whose is anonymous. They moved away from the "working groups" to "expert groups", where any set of representatives can come together and work on a thing they agree on, which has been a much better model. 2021-04-18 21:42:17 @yoavgo @ylecun @rao2z @hannawallach To be face-to-face with people from different orgs working on similar problems, and to share the knowledge and ideas for common good back to the company. The question then becomes: How much does the company listen, and what do they listen to? 2021-04-18 21:40:48 @yoavgo @ylecun @rao2z Yes...When I wasn't talking to @hannawallach and the FB rep, I was talking basically solely to people from civil rights groups. TBH, there was sometimes surprise when they found out my company, not expecting to find so much mutual agreement between us. But that was my role...1/ 2021-04-18 21:35:22 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan ...And there are so many models that can be played with here, such as anonymous voting where every company just counts as 1 vote without influencing other votes. The PAI has had growing pains, but I continue to see a lot of potential. 2021-04-18 21:33:03 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan ...When it doesn't have to be associated to any one company. That (a) limits liability that companies might otherwise avoid 2021-04-18 21:31:55 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan ...Creating a common ground for everyone aligned on human values. I think the PAI is missing some of those explicit guidelines, but among many of the partners--including MSR, FB, and G00gz--that's where we landed. We can talk about sensitive stuff critical to civil rights...5/ 2021-04-18 21:30:14 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan IMHO, it is critical to have Big Tech partners who speak up for marginalized people in tech. The ideal is that, behind closed doors, everyone can agree on basic ethical values without it being associated to any one NGO or company 2021-04-18 21:28:24 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan It's been murky the whole time whether you are representing your company, or yourself as an expert that the company values. Both are at play, but unclear what the ground rules are for engagement (other than Chatham House Rule)...3/ 2021-04-18 21:26:51 @yoavgo @hannawallach @timnitGebru @jennwvaughan ...The projects are largely founded by the PAI reps bottom-up, as opposed to more top-down...frustratingly so at times. So the key is *WHO IS THE REP* and what are their values wrt projects? This is why choosing the right rep for the PAI is key....2/ 2021-04-18 21:25:45 @yoavgo So the ABOUT ML project you're linking to was founded by me and @hannawallach as PAI reps, with @timnitGebru and @jennwvaughan as additional partners. It wasn't founded by Google or MSR per se...it was like, me and Hanna and Timnit and Jenn. That's how everything has worked...1/ 2021-04-18 21:22:29 @yoavgo @ylecun @rao2z I'm into it! 2021-04-15 18:03:49 @BasicScienceSav @LaurenMaffeo @timnitGebru This is great, thanks! 2021-04-14 23:27:35 Cool ideas here, unique to the Twitter approach: -community-driven ML, agency and choice -studying effects over time -in-depth assessment of harms -public feedback Excited about where this work could head. Congrats to @ruchowdh @quicola @williams_jutta! https://t.co/45dUMvlsXn 2021-04-14 21:01:50 RT @protocol: Twitter will share how race and politics shape its algorithms https://t.co/yf72ahrIyH 2021-04-14 20:26:12 RT @timnitGebru: "Chowdhury's appointment at Twitter was announced on the same day that Google formally dismissed Mitchell and ended its in… 2021-04-14 20:26:07 RT @timnitGebru: "For experts and academics in the artificial intelligence field, Chowdhury's appointment made Twitter's expressed commitme… 2021-04-14 19:34:30 @geomblog +1 2021-04-14 19:11:30 @KLdivergence Same. 2021-04-14 19:10:55 RT @anna_c_kramer: Twitter finally announced what its AI ethics team is doing under the leadership of @ruchowdh. The company is trying ve… 2021-04-14 19:02:28 @rajiinio BTW @rajiinio , see this thread too. Would love to collaborate on a timeline at some point if you're interested. =) https://t.co/ZRqFo4arzJ 2021-04-14 18:59:36 @rctatman @skyetetra IMPORT NUMPY AS PD HAHA oh man that is making me laugh so hard. 2021-04-14 18:58:48 RT @rctatman: Look what you made me doooo @skyetetra (also: 1) I'm sure I'm not the first to do this and 2) yes, graphic design is my pa… 2021-04-14 18:58:45 @rctatman @skyetetra Hahah this is gold. 2021-04-14 18:45:04 @ChristineCustis @jingyingyang @timnitGebru @hannawallach @rajiinio Imagine if everyone responded with your kindness when people notice these things! The whole AI world would be different. 2021-04-14 18:43:52 @rajiinio Yuh yuh. Most people aren't even aware of the concept. I was only aware of "marginalization" until complaining to @mer__edith at one pt that I was "being marginalized so much I'm disappearing" and she kindly introduced me to one of the most important terms of my career: Erasure 2021-04-14 18:29:35 @rajiinio Thanks. =) 2021-04-14 18:27:53 @rajiinio @PartnershipAI @OTI @EFF @IBM @Sony @LeverhulmeCFI @hannawallach @timnitGebru and @jennwvaughan were also critical, as was Lassana Magassa. And of course @jingyingyang and you worked tirelessly on this! 2021-04-14 17:02:00 @beausievers 2021-04-14 16:58:02 RT @lindsey: @TaliaRinger Yeah, and it's further decentralized in that there are multiple defenses, developed independently, and this doesn… 2021-04-14 16:57:05 RT @HeatherGorr: Kitty loves these sessions (she'll be the most ethical cat in #AI) Today we're learning from @timnitGebru (like most days)… 2021-04-14 02:30:50 Really appreciate this article from @jjvincent on more of the fallout from me& 2021-04-13 22:08:45 @rajiinio @timnitGebru Thank you for your solidarity and kindness. < I'm so glad that I know you and appreciate everything you do. 2021-04-13 21:56:26 Omg this article made my morning. Great mix of truths and hilarities. "explainable (adj) - [...] Probably not worth the effort. See interpretable." Thanks, @_KarenHao! cc: @tulseedoshi @TMartinDeng https://t.co/2DY3bRzh11 2021-04-13 21:51:16 RT @emilymbender: And always keep in mind: the whole point of marginalization/minoritization is differential treatment. My experience of a… 2021-04-13 21:50:58 RT @emilymbender: Deb's pt here is important: The most important contributions are coming from minoritized voices. The same power systems t… 2021-04-13 21:50:13 RT @betelhem_dessie: @jovialjoy you are so freaking cool! to more black woman like @timnitGebru and @red_abebe leading the fight against… 2021-04-13 21:39:41 RT @ana_valdi: On Monday students asked me why I was not using @GoogleColab for our seminars. I said that I stand with @timnitGebru & 2021-04-13 21:38:46 @mer__edith @rajiinio @yoavgo @timnitGebru @nsthorat Yuh, fully have seen Timnit not valued from multiple perspectives, as person and as researcher. The fact that she was fired for essentially standing up for research integrity is a proof in point -- that's her as a researcher not being valued, and worse: being treated as bad. 2021-04-13 21:33:38 @yoavgo @rajiinio @timnitGebru @nsthorat ...Even if my work was. Can't have the work without the person, and when push comes to shove, it's easier to shove and push people like me due to "culture fit" issues of not being docile. 2021-04-13 21:30:58 @yoavgo @rajiinio @timnitGebru @nsthorat I just made so many great connections (like Nikhil) and had so much fun with so many people. I seriously miss all of my collaborators and the coalition and am just gutted I didn't have the right characteristics for me personally to be valued by, e.g., 3 of the top deciders. 2021-04-13 21:29:09 @yoavgo @rajiinio @timnitGebru @nsthorat My take from my experience (to be taken w a grain of salt) is that my work was valued up to the VP level, and across the company. I worked hard at that, and was likely aided by being white. What was not valued at the higher level was my manifestations of being a woman who speaks. 2021-04-13 19:22:55 RT @ChloeCondon: Me when I cancel a meeting last min: I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON AND FEEL BAD AHHHHHH. I AM SO SORRY. Me when someone else c… 2021-04-13 19:22:22 RT @barbara_plank: EACL is looking for mentors #EACL2021 https://t.co/3HcPEn6d5J 2021-04-13 19:18:31 @barbara_plank @dirk_hovy I'd love to help but worried I might be in a funny position for giving career advice. 2021-04-13 17:36:07 @emilymbender Achievement unlocked! 2021-04-12 22:18:26 @geomblog Oof that's insightful 2021-04-12 20:15:48 @RepYvetteClarke Enraging 2021-04-12 20:15:39 I know it's 2021. Black Lives still Matter. https://t.co/Wihqog07W6 2021-04-12 17:23:21 @RDBinns @divy93t Actually, not unlike the idea of "thick" concepts from Issa Kohler-Hausmann. https://t.co/4IrRnGb1gf 2021-04-12 17:06:04 RT @ReviewAcl: ARR is now accepting submissions! Please see https://t.co/wiXNAvVhZO for an overview of the submission form and link to the… 2021-04-12 17:04:54 RT @FullFrontalSamB: Nothing will change until police officers who abuse their power and needlessly escalate situations are held accountabl… 2021-04-12 16:53:34 RT @ian_soboroff: I don’t know that this is useful for people in industry, but something that is always true is that a policy that isn’t wr… 2021-04-12 04:03:43 @hipsterelectron I'm so sorry. =( 2021-04-12 03:36:53 Unsurprisingly, after that, Google could not recruit anyone else in our field again without our help. 2021-04-12 03:36:14 That's 2 months of lost work. And an intense, hostile, and alienating experience that started within weeks of @timnitGebru joining. 2021-04-12 03:35:21 With my experience with an inappropriate performance review, I asked for an appeal for months. I spent 2 months proving why it was wrong. Then before Christmas, I was told an appeal was not allowed for perf: only for promo. Perf scores cannot be changed and I had "misunderstood". https://t.co/BlOBGBezdQ 2021-04-11 06:01:45 RT @HiredCam: @teemu_roos @jasonrohrer @Jocke_Strand @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @SuomenEduskunta @_KarenHao GPT-3 is the hottest of hot. ht… 2021-04-11 05:13:16 RT @RishiBommasani: Just discovered @sulin_blodgett's wonderful dissertation!!! It is a lovely read and an excellent resource for orienti… 2021-04-11 03:09:00 RT @pfau: @sindero @databoydg @mmitchell_ai "Have you made a massive breakthrough in deep learning?" "Yes, I invented it." 2021-04-11 01:11:14 @sindero Seriously! This is why it's useful to do this. I sort of want to make a timeline to recognize the people who are most likely to have been marginalized along the way. 2021-04-10 22:07:06 RT @KimCrayton1: I’m happy to see that @timnitGebru & F… 2021-04-10 22:05:37 RT @cajundiscordian: It is beginning to seriously worry me that Google's pool of AI Ethics experts is evaporating. @timnitGebru and @mmitch… 2021-04-10 20:34:10 @timnitGebru @RealAbril It's kinda like firing someone who motivated a lot of diverse people into working on responsible AI, and then saying "we already have a lot of diverse people working on responsible AI" 2021-04-10 20:31:20 RT @timnitGebru: Especially when that bottom up process also led to Meg's marginalization after so much fighting. This is common though.… 2021-04-10 20:30:29 @cmcilwain @kharijohnson Oooh I'd love to read this. 2021-04-10 19:52:55 RT @L_badikho: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru I was skeptical of corporate research and wouldn't have joined if it was not for @timnitGebru con… 2021-04-10 19:51:54 @timnitGebru @madblqscientist @CHayesPM Yeah, I have learned so much from Timnit about raising up the voices of other women in your career. The issue for the public wrt the historical narrative is thinking that Google top-down -- instead of me bottom-up -- created an ethical AI team. It makes all the difference. 2021-04-10 19:31:51 RT @IkeOW_: @teemu_roos @timnitGebru @jasonrohrer @Jocke_Strand @mmitchell_ai @SuomenEduskunta @_KarenHao Good to see the AI values a singl… 2021-04-10 19:03:39 @FrankPasquale @teemu_roos @vgalaz @jasonrohrer @Jocke_Strand @timnitGebru @SuomenEduskunta @_KarenHao "Turing test to Trolling test" Love it! 2021-04-10 18:58:01 @tharkban @bitcoin4bernie https://t.co/5tdERyqGFC 2021-04-10 18:57:30 #anarchistcats 2021-04-10 18:54:29 @teemu_roos @jasonrohrer @Jocke_Strand @timnitGebru @SuomenEduskunta @_KarenHao At last! You have uncovered the secret that language models are actually just a pile of anarchist cats. #stochasticparrots #anarchistcats @timnitGebru @emilymbender @blahtino @vinodkpg @benhutchinson 2021-04-10 18:41:06 RT @sannste: Secretly AI is a scheme of cats trying to take over the world. https://t.co/cIYVswlsxi 2021-04-10 18:38:55 Is it bad that I can't stop laughing at this? Is that the wrong response? #stochasticparrots https://t.co/zmI2owbILH 2021-04-10 18:37:55 @teemu_roos https://t.co/nZLtQwRyNF 2021-04-10 07:11:28 @lisadawn2000 Usually, not only was it not "smooth", there was nothing there and you had to build it by running around with all kinds of hats. 2021-04-10 07:09:38 @lisadawn2000 This is so true. There is so much intense exhausting work tech minorities do that gets chalked up to things "just coming together" because everything had already been set up so smoothly. 2021-04-10 06:57:45 RT @timnitGebru: Correct. Jeff Dean & 2021-04-10 06:57:36 RT @lisadawn2000: It's so difficult to make organizational change at a place as large as Google. Don't erase the hard work of @mmitchell_ai… 2021-04-10 06:57:02 There are a lot of other ML Fairness people still there who I don't want to minimize. It was amazing to build a coalition with all of them. We built a cool albeit clunky ecosystem. 2021-04-10 04:28:19 @rodneysampson Thanks. =) 2021-04-10 01:19:06 @chelseyglasson It's really insulting when the message is, "You just didn't speak up enough". Um. It's speaking up that gets you in trouble. 2021-04-10 01:17:44 @chelseyglasson I was JUST thinking about that. I remember the story where she needed pregnancy parking and so went up and told Larry (or Sergey?), and she was like, "it's that easy, just ask!". Then remembering all the basic basic things I suggested and how it never did anything but bring pain. 2021-04-10 00:22:38 @KevinKaichuang Absolutely, thanks! 2021-04-09 23:08:39 Trying to figure out the presence of marginalized tech people in deep learning & If you're a tech minority: (1) Have you won a deep learning competition or made a massive breakthrough in deep learning? (2) What year? 2021-04-09 19:45:19 @marcsteen @michaelzimmer @luke_stark (am worried about unwanted targeting of these folks) 2021-04-09 19:44:08 @marcsteen @michaelzimmer @luke_stark What's your goal/message in these shares? 2021-04-09 19:35:25 @ZoeSchiffer @timnitGebru I probably wouldn't mention it if I weren't unemployed. My expertise for employment is now being erased in the news before my eyes. 2021-04-09 19:32:09 Fwiw @ journalists: I worked hard for years to motivate and create the Ethical AI team and the ML Fairness focus at Google. Google did not create these orgs and invite @timnitGebru to lead 2021-04-09 18:43:22 @michaelzimmer @luke_stark It seems no one remaining got funding in the ethics/responsible/fair AI space, so at least Google is being consistent the the value it places on these topics? 2021-04-09 18:39:50 RT @michaelzimmer: And @luke_stark was the only one willing to take a stand and refuse the funding. https://t.co/XgBNXl39ki 2021-04-09 18:39:28 RT @jeffrey_heer: In light of recent ACM awards decisions and my own reflections, I'm committed to donating the $35,000 prize from the 2016… 2021-04-09 18:38:43 @joereddington 2021-04-09 07:45:40 @robruenes @timnitGebru Example of how ridiculous it is to have to fight for this kind of culture change 2021-04-09 07:44:46 @robruenes This is one of the points @timnitGebru and I were trying to make, critical to improving culture. 2021-04-09 06:18:33 RT @chelseyglasson: Don’t let go of the fight, don’t let go of what happened to you, but do let go of the outcome. Life is too short to def… 2021-04-08 19:03:34 @niloufar_s @timnitGebru All hands on deck! Together we move mountains. (NB: I do suck at metaphors.) 2021-04-08 19:02:22 An easy trick for creating "inclusion": Do not create alienating experiences for groups of people. If you turn "inclusion" on its head, and instead focus on minimizing alienating decisions, then you may not even have to work "to improve" D& 2021-04-08 18:57:19 RT @rajiinio: They paid them and asked for consent. This is larger & 2021-04-08 18:40:46 @_alialkhatib @luke_stark I feel this. The "inclusion" in diversity & 2021-04-08 18:23:02 @niloufar_s Thank you for making the issues so clear. You're giving the world your own psychological and cognitive energy, at a painful cost to you, to shine a light on right vs. wrong. Thank you so much for writing about this. 2021-04-08 18:12:36 RT @dmetaxak: And in the midst of this, Niloufar still had time to give me advice and mentorship today! You’re amazing, and I am so gratefu… 2021-04-08 17:49:37 RT @ZahraNazari1: When I was applying for grad schools in 2011, it was common knowledge that Iranians should not bother applying for Stanfo… 2021-04-08 17:48:25 RT @niloufar_s: When are @Stanford and @TheOfficialACM going to do ANYTHING other than issuing empty statements? Who is responsible for the… 2021-04-08 17:47:04 RT @emilymbender: 2. The process for considering candidate awardees should include a due diligence phase that answers the question: has thi… 2021-04-08 17:46:54 RT @emilymbender: 1. Before even creating a short list, examine both the purpose & 2021-04-08 17:46:31 RT @emilymbender: To serve as a carrot to inspire academics to work hard? Awards given regularly to harassers, racists and assholes aren't… 2021-04-08 17:46:19 RT @emilymbender: Someone who has systematically made the field hostile to a whole group of people has thereby harmed the advancement of th… 2021-04-08 17:46:01 RT @emilymbender: Therefore, scholarly societies awarding honors have a responsibility to their membership to do their due diligence before… 2021-04-08 17:45:56 RT @emilymbender: When the original harm impacted a lot of people, so does the new harm of giving the award. /7 2021-04-08 17:45:40 RT @emilymbender: First, it's clear that when a society like the ACM gives a big award to someone who has done harm, that again harms the v… 2021-04-08 02:17:20 RT @FkryLady: @mmitchell_ai "So I didn’t tell my manager about my tech lead’s behavior for more than a year. Playing along felt like the pr… 2021-04-08 02:15:57 RT @laurenceb: @veenadubal I wanna say "you wouldn't believe how many of us went through this" but you probably would at this point. More p… 2021-04-08 02:15:53 RT @veenadubal: After filing a sex harassment complaint at Google:”I’d structured my life around my job — exactly what they wanted...but th… 2021-04-08 01:06:45 This really resonated. Everything from how the workplace morphed into becoming hostile to H.R. making the experience traumatic to having leaders psychoanalyze you insultingly to turning out to be an object all along. https://t.co/YXOnr8XcRA 2021-04-08 00:54:47 Woowoo!! Let's hear it for appreciating dataset construction!! https://t.co/LmwXZU9MAf 2021-04-07 23:09:16 RT @TaliaRinger: @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @sundarpichai @GoogleAI Yes, the email as I saw in an article resonated strongly: mos… 2021-04-07 23:09:01 @timnitGebru @TaliaRinger @JeffDean @sundarpichai @GoogleAI Truth. 2021-04-07 23:08:54 RT @timnitGebru: @TaliaRinger @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @sundarpichai @GoogleAI Thanks for taking the time to do this work. I can say that ou… 2021-04-07 22:10:23 RT @dlowd: I’m teaching graduate data science this term. Students asked about the Google fiasco on the first day of class. https://t.co/ucT… 2021-04-07 22:09:44 @TaliaRinger Unfortunately, I have found Twitter to be most effective. Google investigations continue to comb through every one of my tweets, I believe, so at least the very real concerns can get through in some way. < 2021-04-07 22:08:12 @TaliaRinger The answer appears to be no, which is so heartbreaking. Actually, the opposite seems to happen: Imposing engineering mindsets to research, and punishing researchers who don't align (esp. women). It is not ok. 2021-04-07 22:05:43 @TaliaRinger @sundarpichai If he won't respond even when it makes legal sense, then I don't think others grappling with this issue have much hope of making a dent...Still, I send this tweet, crying out for help and hoping to be heard. 2021-04-07 22:04:50 @TaliaRinger @sundarpichai I emailed him for help/advice while my whole management chain was under his investigation but he did not respond. My understanding is that, by law, your skip-(skip-) manager is in charge of you when your regular managers are not available. In this case it was Sundar. 2021-04-07 22:00:55 @TaliaRinger Jeff isn't beholden to Legal or Comms -- his role is to listen to them to make an informed opinion, not to do what they say. So I think breaking from the "let other people decide" view, and taking hold of what research leadership is, is critical. 2021-04-07 21:57:52 It's the only way to draw attention to (1) discrimination & It's scary to talk about this stuff, can make one "hard" and "angry" 2021-04-07 03:20:53 @TaliaRinger @timnitGebru @anoushnajarian @JeffDean Thank you! 2021-04-07 03:20:07 RT @gleemie: Today's Business of Algorithms panel with @ruchowdh @bshestakofsky, organized by @columbiasoc, is cancelled because @Columbia… 2021-04-07 02:54:01 @TaliaRinger @timnitGebru @anoushnajarian @JeffDean As @timnitGebru said in her last message at Google, no matter how hard you work breaking these things down to basics, no matter how much time you spend, no matter how emotionally taxing it is, it doesn't matter. There is no sign that any details are processed in any way. 2021-04-07 02:52:15 @TaliaRinger @timnitGebru @anoushnajarian @JeffDean Yeah I wrote details on this for Jeff, as well as an example apology and a glossary of factors for apology on the table. The HOWTO I shared is here: https://t.co/s9HbZYkzeL 2021-04-07 01:45:20 @timnitGebru @TaliaRinger @anoushnajarian @JeffDean I mean not that that helps us, heh. 2021-04-07 01:44:58 @timnitGebru @TaliaRinger @anoushnajarian @JeffDean I still hold fast to the idea that the lack of apology culture is what breeds a lot of hostility and alienation. Establishing a culture of reflection, responsibility, and apologizing when appropriate, would change a lot of things for the better. 2021-04-07 01:41:36 RT @TaliaRinger: @mmitchell_ai @anoushnajarian @timnitGebru @JeffDean I rarely chime in on this publicly anymore, but I like this frame, so… 2021-04-07 01:41:08 RT @Kensan42: More context on the significance of this event. The snowball that started with Google firing @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai i… 2021-04-07 01:10:15 @anoushnajarian @timnitGebru @JeffDean That said, Jeff, you know it is never too late to do the right thing. I will always support you in making good choices. 2021-04-07 01:04:08 RT @MikhailovDanil: When the proverbial hits the fan, you trust your team & 2021-04-07 00:44:09 @niloufar_s @timnitGebru Thank you. < Working with you has been incredible. 2021-04-07 00:42:15 @seaghost27 @TexanExiled @josheidelson @NicoAGrant @dinabass @timnitGebru Another side of this, though, is that a lot of the work I was doing was specifically focused on defining details of self-regulation. Now, the self-regulation argument falls apart, and what comes instead can be much more heavy-handed and damaging for the company. 2021-04-07 00:36:59 @anoushnajarian @timnitGebru @JeffDean All signs suggest that he doesn't understand what the problem is 2021-04-07 00:19:46 Wow. An incredibly influential company/Google shareholder is calling out what Google did to me and @timnitGebru. Let's hope this does something good! https://t.co/CkabzMj9Jb 2021-04-07 00:12:24 RT @ZoeSchiffer: Whistleblowers are good business, says Alphabet shareholder and sustainable investment firm Trillium Asset Management: htt… 2021-04-07 00:11:19 @timnitGebru Also thanks for tweeting about that. =) 2021-04-07 00:09:55 @timnitGebru I.e., it seemed they were doing what they were accusing me of, but I was not. 2021-04-07 00:09:35 @timnitGebru Irony is that what they said in the press to imply that I gave info about colleagues or confidential information to someone (I didn't), was, in itself, giving confidential information worldwide with private information about me as an employee. 2021-04-07 00:04:54 @timnitGebru Yeah, law (and basic morality/respect/etc) didn't appear to be a factor in what they said/did. I was asking my interroviewers whether this-and-that "policy" was legal, and the response was a big shrug. 2021-04-06 23:59:43 RT @timnitGebru: “ Open MIC, a nonprofit that works with shareholders to advocate for greater corporate accountability and is helping to or… 2021-04-06 23:19:17 RT @kat_heller: I have this translate collaboration, with Samy, @niloufar_s , @timnitGebru , and @mmitchell_ai. Meeting is always the highl… 2021-04-06 21:38:27 RT @sarahookr: A huge loss for Google. Samy has been an incredible leader within Brain. I am really grateful for all the ways he made this… 2021-04-06 19:54:50 @srush_nlp @PMinervini @IAugenstein People even updated it who weren't me! 2021-04-06 19:54:39 @srush_nlp @PMinervini @IAugenstein It was so kind!! 2021-04-06 19:50:52 @Combsthepoet @lizjosullivan @Twitter @verified @mer__edith @onekade @red_abebe @ruchowdh @ClareAngelyn @rajiinio @PopTechWorks @KimCrayton1 @mutalenkonde @veenadubal Same! 2021-04-06 19:46:59 @timnitGebru I remember the FAccT conference that our colleagues went to and everyone was like, "Wow!! You are REALLY RESPECTED!" and I was just so disappointed that the idea that our research ideas were respected externally was so out-of-sync with how our company was treating us. 2021-04-06 19:44:48 RT @timnitGebru: It is sad to see this happening to the ONE director in the research org who was doing the right thing. I had hope when Sam… 2021-04-06 19:44:33 RT @timnitGebru: Not only was Samy's leadership severely undermined while continuing to dismantle his team & 2021-04-06 16:56:42 @minxdragon @timnitGebru Hehe! I am underrepresented because I am a parrot, duh. 2021-04-05 23:38:35 @laurenceb Didn't even notice! 2021-04-05 23:37:41 @ireneista @mykola Wait, if we had "cured" neuroatypicality, and autism specifically, a ton of progress in a ton of domains would not have been possible. I'm hard-pressed to believe that many successful tech people aren't neuroatypical (myself included). There are always 2 sides to these coins. 2021-04-05 23:33:50 @mykola 2021-04-05 21:41:27 @naturaltonic Bonus!! 2021-04-05 18:56:01 RT @niloufar_s: "When you expose a problem you pose a problem. I have been thinking more about the problem of how you become the problem b… 2021-04-05 18:55:42 RT @megyoung0: I stand with Khadijah @UpFromTheCracks and demand her immediate reinstatement as lecturer in the @Cornell Tech Milstein Prog… 2021-04-05 18:42:17 RT @_alialkhatib: @mmitchell_ai @UpFromTheCracks @CornellTechNYC @timnitGebru "we want to support Black women [but not if they're going to… 2021-04-05 18:41:38 @_alialkhatib @UpFromTheCracks @CornellTechNYC @timnitGebru A person's (1) Marginalized demographic characteristics give rise to (2) Lived experiences and perspectives, which give rise to (3) Communication abt issues of marginalization via some medium, like a paper or tweet. Firing for (3) incorporates firing for (1). 2021-04-05 18:31:05 @_alialkhatib @UpFromTheCracks @CornellTechNYC @timnitGebru If a person's demographic characteristics are a primary causal variable in what they experience, see, and say, then chances are what they have to share is going to make people with less marginalized characteristics uncomfortable. 2021-04-05 18:27:43 @nsaphra But my work has always been a bit of a black sheep. 2021-04-05 18:24:44 @nsaphra Turned out internal paper review was actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. 2021-04-05 18:17:24 @nsaphra HEHEHE 2021-04-05 18:14:03 @alexhanna 2021-04-05 18:12:34 @nsaphra 2021-04-05 18:11:30 The Stochastic parrots are a red herring but a canary in the coal mine for AI ethics! Funny! Mixing animal idioms! I keep saying this to people IRL and no one thinks it's funny. =( 2021-04-04 21:08:29 RT @Abebab: "aligning AI with human values" often amounts to "aligning AI with the values of the status quo" (certainly not with the values… 2021-04-04 21:07:10 @yesthatkarim =O Amazing!! I'll send you cookies if something happens!! I messaged and called @RonWyden, @RepJayapal but no dice. I think they're probably very busy... 2021-04-04 21:05:01 @yesthatkarim Not a rant, and appreciate it! Am filled w pain and anger today, I'm just so disappointed. This situation isn't unique to me or @timnitGebru, but one would hope at least this whole episode has drawn attention to what discrimination in tech can look like. This is "the pipeline". 2021-04-04 20:57:41 @yesthatkarim (Sorry, I mean anyone with power to substantively change or enforce, eg, law in this area. Support from the community has been amazing.) 2021-04-04 20:56:40 @yesthatkarim I would love for someone to do the right thing here, and do something substantive to change this kind of situation. But I just really don't think it matters to anyone. 2021-04-04 20:49:07 @timnitGebru @Tri_Becca90 @JeffDean It was when we assumed good intent we were the most harmed. "Assume good intent" seemed to mean "let them harm you while we blame you for bringing it up". 2021-04-04 20:45:43 When I asked why they would air such dirty maneuvers all over the world, including sharing extremely detailed confidential accusations that were so confidential they wouldn't even email the details to me, yet blasted those same details in the press, the answer: business interest. 2021-04-04 20:34:48 Why does that make sense? Do I just think it doesn't make sense because I'm a woman, and these are boys' rules? 2021-04-04 20:34:17 On the one hand, that was an unexpected admission that at least confirmed my fears. On the other hand, I'm scared this tweet thread will catalyze more mean stuff targeting me, behind a Google comms microphone, publicized all over the world. 2021-04-04 20:32:34 I've avoided talking about this because I don't want them to further escalate in the press. They told me they would escalate, in the press, a narrative that disagrees with positive tweets even *about* me, even when I'm not saying anything. 2021-04-04 20:14:18 I just don't believe it is appropriate professional behavior for a corporation to personally publicly attack its employees. And I'm bummed that me and @timnitGebru's former employer doesn't seem to agree. https://t.co/fM7eU0ap80 2021-04-04 20:04:56 @Jive_City Are you aware of any writings on this as a specific strategy? Would love to know the history of it and how/where it's been successful. 2021-04-04 20:00:35 @stevemeier853 I just don't think anyone cares. 2021-04-04 19:55:25 @Tri_Becca90 @timnitGebru You're not the only one who has this story. 2021-04-04 19:54:31 Why is this ok for a major corporation to do? How does that look different than what disproportionate discrimination against women would look like? 2021-04-03 19:20:00 RT @cheraghchi: Core of the Ullman argument: His pattern of explicit discrimination of students based on (presumed) political beliefs & 2021-04-03 19:19:44 RT @chris_brockett: I rarely listen to podcasts, because I can read faster than I can listen, but this interview with @sulin_blodgett is a… 2021-04-02 18:59:08 @JeffDean So let's be careful not to do something like proverbially shoot them in their face when they have already overcome so much and their contributions to science are finally being heard. 2021-04-02 18:58:06 @JeffDean Women like science too--so let's be careful not to explode their careers, even when it makes us feel really good and powerful. Women scientists usually have had to overcome so many additional barriers and obstacles to even be heard within science at all. 2021-04-02 18:54:32 RT @timnitGebru: Hi friends, the deadline for this is today at EOD today whatever your timezone is. We hope to see many of your submissions… 2021-04-02 18:52:54 @wokyleeks @BayesForDays Wow, you called it. They went from talking about whatever that is (below) to live updates as soon as the color of this person's skin was shared. https://t.co/4nmrRJffCc 2021-04-02 18:26:52 @BayesForDays I think we just learned the suspect is Black...want to take bets on how the headlines will change? 2021-04-02 18:25:51 RT @emilymbender: The @RadicalAIPod hosts also posed a really interesting question: to what extent does #NLProc raise different issues arou… 2021-04-02 18:25:10 RT @emilymbender: The question is definitely sticking with me, too! One of the things Su Lin pointed out (and @_jessiejsmith_ echoed in the… 2021-04-02 18:24:31 @computerfemme ?? What a strangely meanspirited thing to tell you. 2021-04-02 18:23:24 @ruchowdh This is totally something my mom would do too, hehe. 2021-04-02 17:22:08 @CharityDelmus @ml_labs_irl Don't think I saw it, will look. =) Thank you! 2021-04-02 17:20:56 RT @twimlai: “That might've just been one mistake, but it's one mistake that's the same mistake all over the world... You have the same sor… 2021-04-02 17:19:23 @laurenceb I had NTK docs a lot in my line of work. But that shouldn't be NTK. Conditions that affect everyone in your household/family, like healthcare details, should be available for them even if they are not Googlers. 2021-04-01 22:07:06 RT @anoushnajarian: What are we doing?? https://t.co/drhAa28jD2 2021-04-01 22:06:35 @windx0303 Cos world is ending. 2021-04-01 22:02:26 @jackclarkSF Love this idea! 2021-04-01 22:02:14 RT @jackclarkSF: Universities need access to computational infrastructure at equivalent scale as private sector, or I worry about long-term… 2021-04-01 16:58:31 Don't tweet before coffee. 2021-04-01 16:57:03 RT @cheraghchi: There may be statistical evidence that he caused barriers against the entry of Iranian grad students at Stanford CS, whic… 2021-04-01 16:55:00 @ValtoVipul @JeffDean @TheOfficialACM And me! I miss my job and my work friends. 2021-04-01 16:48:37 @_KarenHao @techreview Amazing!! Congrats! 2021-04-01 03:25:42 @RealAbril 2021-04-01 00:00:28 @ireneista @timnitGebru Yay! =D 2021-03-31 23:53:47 @timnitGebru Oh! This WAS an "exclusive interview". Ha, I hadn't even realized. It's like clockwork. Once you know the strategies, it's almost sort of boring to watch play out. 2021-03-31 23:51:58 @timnitGebru Yeah this was really triggering. What are the odds that this was an intentional exclusive interview to put out a narrative that's the opposite of what's actually happened? 2021-03-31 22:01:22 @rexkat @timnitGebru @JeffDean Yeah. I don't understand how misogyny would look any different in this situation. It seems it would look exactly the same. 2021-03-31 20:19:59 RT @farbandish: Sigh. A few years ago @EmilyGorcenski and I tag-teamed taking down an OKCupid dataset collected for eugenics research. Data… 2021-03-31 20:04:45 @timnitGebru @JeffDean It's all just so sad. Liking pressing on through so much pain for your entire life to get to the top of the mountain, and then Jeff(??) for some reason(??) throwing us both off a cliff. It just doesn't make sense to me unless you truly believe we are objects. 2021-03-31 19:51:20 Above picture is from Erin Malo. https://t.co/3zCVOdutGj 2021-03-31 19:50:33 Thank you trans friends & 2021-03-31 19:32:08 Thank you @KwasiAMensah. You're not the only one resigning bc of what Google did to me/@timnitGebru, but you are one of the only Googlers speaking out. One of the most effective ways to change the system is clarify that discrimination is not "ok". https://t.co/NxfdowTxLt 2021-03-31 18:00:05 RT @AINowInstitute: "Google’s digital training for Black women is emphatically not an effort to fix the system but rather an effort to “fix… 2021-03-31 17:52:33 RT @robotsmarts: What a novel concept - to put human pedestrians first when designing AI for managing road traffic. Wonder if anyone else i… 2021-03-31 04:09:02 @mjpost @LeonDerczynski @mark_riedl Make America Rake Again! 2021-03-30 23:20:26 RT @TaliaRinger: @mmitchell_ai A lot of times making mental health a priority manifests as a department, field, or company just sending out… 2021-03-30 23:19:52 RT @HabenGirma: "It's time for companies to address all of the harms that are caused by bias, by racism, by sexism, by transphobia… How do… 2021-03-30 23:19:29 RT @NAACP_LDF: "We have to call it what it is, this is racial voter suppression. You've heard the words Jim Crow. We don't enjoy saying it,… 2021-03-30 23:16:31 RT @TaliaRinger: @mmitchell_ai For harassment and abuse, confidential advocates are key. A lot of CS research communities are setting up co… 2021-03-30 23:14:28 That's the opposite of what you want to do as a company striving for a safe environment for their employees. The goal is to minimize, not maximize, anxiety and mental health concerns of your employees 2021-03-30 23:12:45 One way to do the opposite of leading by example is to explode the career of a v senior female researcher + blast a message that sounds like she did something wrong in the press across the world, for {still unclear} reasons. 2021-03-30 23:10:22 The report also provides SOLUTIONS! I personally like: - Change leadership (yep, this is unfortunately critical to changing culture) - Make mental health a top priority - Lead by example 2021-03-30 23:07:57 The report also recognizes the very real harm many have experienced of HR in tech normalizing and propagating harassment, while retaliating against those who bring up concerns. 2021-03-30 23:05:43 The report also makes a point about the weaponization of vaguely-defined cultural norms like “best practices” to punish and push out employees 2021-03-30 23:04:15 If you are a leader at a company and finding yourself with increased anxiety and stress, please work with a therapist. Everyone should be seeing therapy right now, but especially those who take their anger out by harming those below them (whether realizing it or not). 2021-03-30 23:02:48 Hypothesis wrt my situation: While dealing w trauma, you also might serve as a punching bag for leaders in your company themselves going through trauma and not dealing with it in a healthy way. This creates a kind of trauma “food chain” where those at lowest rungs are doomed. 2021-03-30 22:59:51 They find that the experience of trauma has risen to extreme levels, and harassment and hostility has disproportionately fallen on tech minorities. 2021-03-30 22:57:14 Have been reading through the new @projectinclude report on remote working and tech minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. SO MANY things in here that seem to describe my own experience https://t.co/7pqnLpJ2Oo 2021-03-30 22:54:50 RT @carolinesinders: finally, our report outlines what workplaces can do RIGHT NOW to improve the workplace and alleviate harm that workers… 2021-03-30 22:31:59 RT @gnesvenema: @mmitchell_ai @TrialByTruth And I think this is very much a diversity problem too. I remember talking to some guys at a sec… 2021-03-30 06:21:08 RT @HabenGirma: #Eritrea has abducted children from their families and forced them to fight in its brutal war on #Tigray, reports Eritrean… 2021-03-30 05:39:49 RT @DrTomFrieden: Important new data on the mental health harms of the pandemic in the US. Large increases in depression and anxiety, espec… 2021-03-30 05:18:20 @hanlsp I love the name twiki! 2021-03-30 04:42:15 @hanlsp Wut 2021-03-30 04:16:21 Can there be a Twitter wiki with glossary terms that people can hyperlink to when they tweet? I really did want to dig in to LLM as an acronym, for those interested, but characte https://t.co/I5EQ5Uk4Uy 2021-03-30 04:10:36 @kathrynbck @emilymbender @mariaruizv @JohnCGeorge2 @compbiobryan I would be down for writing to an open Twitter glossary as one tweets. Like with alt text. It could work like hyperlinks within the tweet. 2021-03-29 23:24:23 @comathematician @emilymbender @justsaysinmice #justsaymice 2021-03-29 23:24:09 RT @comathematician: @mmitchell_ai @emilymbender Biology has a similar problem . Most of the research that make it to NYT headlines are st… 2021-03-29 23:08:21 @emilymbender @JohnCGeorge2 @compbiobryan Weren't enough characters to type the whole thing out in one tweet unfortunately. 2021-03-29 22:20:45 My partner, trying to understand LLMs: So every language has enough internet data for these? Me: Oh everything you've read is about English Partner: ALL OF THIS HAS JUST BEEN ABOUT ENGLISH!? Someone should SAY that! Me: You've just stumbled upon the #BenderRule @emilymbender 2021-03-29 22:11:34 @joy_of_living I have. 2021-03-29 22:10:24 RT @DrVeronikaCH: A random appreciation tweet for PhD researchers - you matter, you should take time off as with any job, and you shouldn't… 2021-03-29 21:45:42 RT @mikarv: @mmitchell_ai also: make sure that person sees foresight (primarily) as informed by participatory methods, not some special ski… 2021-03-29 21:45:30 @piersyoung Love this word and idea! 2021-03-29 21:45:11 RT @piersyoung: @mmitchell_ai It might also be missing what you might call widesight - ie research that is broad, uses all the senses, gets… 2021-03-29 21:19:01 Foresight. Tech is missing foresight. So hire people who are good at foresight. Not everyone is 2021-03-29 21:08:48 RT @danieljsanchez_: “If we’re serious about responsible AI, then we also have to do responsible dataset construction.” - @mmitchell_ai in… 2021-03-29 20:30:18 And for specific details on how to do "responsible dataset construction", check out our paper at FAccT! https://t.co/bo9gip4Ivl With @benhutchinson , @andrewthesmart , @alexhanna , @cephaloponderer , @xpuff_xtina , and others!! https://t.co/kQ2zLLoSDQ 2021-03-29 20:15:51 RT @luke_stark: https://t.co/67McthLFcK 2021-03-29 20:07:14 @kharijohnson Yaay!! 2021-03-29 19:03:21 RT @anoushnajarian: "If you train on data from white websites, you're going to call white people 'people' & 2021-03-29 04:06:03 RT @FkryLady: @IfeomaOzoma @mmitchell_ai Yep, it is an assault. I imagine it feels like a destruction of Self. Their power positions them t… 2021-03-29 03:26:32 Important to talk thru what's been happening to so many women rn, many of them Black or trans. To work through shared experiences so that the precise language naming the patterns emerges--as well as the clarity that these patterns are indeed happening to so many women. https://t.co/T9ZqGFOioe 2021-03-29 02:43:45 @wokyleeks So the description of Zersetzung is alarmingly close to what I seem to have just experienced. Thanks for this insight. 2021-03-29 02:40:22 RT @IfeomaOzoma: @mmitchell_ai Destruction of person seems right. Because it’s an assault that is way more than just firing you. It’s about… 2021-03-29 02:39:53 @computerfemme Hehehe! 2021-03-29 02:39:31 @FStevenChalmers Thanks, appreciated this. Agree it may be part of the puzzle. It doesn't solve why they chose such a fantastic explosive press-escalated exit for me, but do see how these other dynamics can be at play. 2021-03-29 02:36:08 @computerfemme Walkered off the premises? 2021-03-29 01:07:36 @KantNot1 Thanks, and ugh. =( Definite similarities. 2021-03-29 00:51:36 @emilio__ferrara Ooo good one. 2021-03-29 00:50:56 @FStevenChalmers But this was never seriously discussed, while I'd been promoted, supported to create a large awesome team, got high marks, incl from Jeff...wouldn't another approach be respectfully parting ways? It was approx 3 months from massive support to explosion, so something went funny. 2021-03-29 00:43:03 RT @hugobowne: @taus202 @kareem_carr @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @rajiinio this talk by @timnitGebru and @cephaloponderer is clarifying http… 2021-03-29 00:13:05 @IfeomaOzoma Yeah, that makes sense. 2021-03-28 23:59:54 @timnitGebru @JeffDean But have you heard about EAP? 2021-03-28 23:57:47 @timnitGebru @JeffDean Oops, my silly women brain! 2021-03-28 23:47:39 @timnitGebru @JeffDean What is the calculus in trying to harm my reputation? What does my former employer gain in that? 2021-03-28 23:47:03 @timnitGebru @JeffDean I think some details on the harassers and bullies are likely to be shared soon. There are just too many witnesses to the double standard. When men are harmful and protected, and women are helpful but harmed, this is a manifestation of what we refer to as "sexism". 2021-03-28 23:42:26 @MeghanHurlburt I liked constrictive! 2021-03-28 22:55:44 @KantNot1 Oh! Say more about this? I'm not familiar... 2021-03-28 22:23:50 @BobGoffer DEFINITELY a good idea -- but not to be expected (this kind of structure is not (yet) well supported). 2021-03-28 22:22:17 @wokyleeks I'm kinda worried that my "code of conduct" violation might have been telling leadership I would not intentionally force my team into processes that knowingly increased suicidal ideation and loss of life--even as a manager. 2021-03-28 22:14:27 @jkrohrs OMG These are great!!! 2021-03-28 22:04:46 @wokyleeks Wow!! Thanks for this word. 2021-03-28 22:04:10 @mattmay True, but that term is too general and doesn't carry with it the specific harshness and power differentials at play in the above example... 2021-03-28 22:02:23 It's sort of like "destruction of evidence" but it's more like "destruction of witness" or "destruction of person" or something like that. 2021-03-28 22:01:23 Is there a word for "not just fired by your long-term employer, but instantaneously ejected and massively publicly disparaged as though you had done something wrong"? Some of us at Google were calling it "the nuclear option", but I'm curious if there's a name for this phenomenon. 2021-03-28 21:54:20 @DrVeronikaCH Also! Include a link to the reviewing website. Digging thru tons of emails to find reviewing website --> 2021-03-27 23:40:59 RT @databoydg: We can’t keep having the same debate every three months. If you can’t express a complex and consequential technical topic i… 2021-03-27 23:15:14 @kareem_carr Usu. when people say "statistical bias", they're referring to the bias of an estimator. We're both talking about something somewhat different from that, specifically related to disproportionate performance on different groups. 2021-03-27 23:05:35 @srchvrs @complingy @KordoniN @ivn_finaev @twimlai Who was openly against ML? 2021-03-27 20:56:09 RT @L_badikho: The minimizer of squared distances (mean) accounts for minority data points (e.g. vaccine experts in a social network), but… 2021-03-27 19:49:36 @kareem_carr Yuh, my 3 is mostly just detail within your 3. What I'm focusing in on is something I want to call out by name: sexism, racism, etc. An algo may not have discriminatory *intent*, but it will create and perpetuate unjust power differentials. 2021-03-27 19:36:24 @srchvrs @KordoniN @ivn_finaev @twimlai I mean I'm an ML researcher, so I propose ML as well as other stuff? 2021-03-27 19:33:26 Ack! @kareem_carr , I gotta pipe up. 1. The bias starts before the data 2. Algorithms create, and amplify, race/gender biases, racism, and sexism 3. By "bias" we usu mean discriminated characteristics 4. We have to first improve the culture to fix https://t.co/sV3HpTAlSu 2021-03-27 19:21:36 @Sarah22224166 @kareem_carr This The bias comes before the data. 2021-03-27 19:16:03 @emilymbender @davidschlangen "...when you're building an interactive system, you should take care that it's covering the antecedents and consequences that are appropriate for the speech acts it performs..." So many things I liked in that thread. 2021-03-27 19:13:52 @srchvrs @ivn_finaev @twimlai You're right...it is hard to believe that...almost like that's not true at all and you're just being kinda mean... 2021-03-26 23:22:51 RT @luke_stark: @mmitchell_ai @rachelmetz @timnitGebru Oh my goodness. I'm honored/will absolutely print and frame this. Also full credit t… 2021-03-26 22:35:43 I hereby bestow upon @luke_stark an Achievement Award for doing what (apparently) no one has ever done before! Rejecting a Google research grant based on principles and values! Thanks to Luke, Google Comms, @rachelmetz and @timnitGebru for recognizing this noteworthy achievement. https://t.co/SKgSuGXqi6 https://t.co/teAtNwoOEr 2021-03-26 21:39:04 RT @creative_also: @KrzemoweEcho @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu https://t.co/mU2DBcLpXK 2021-03-26 21:37:57 RT @twimlai: “That might've just been one mistake, but it's one mistake that's the same mistake all over the world... You have the same sor… 2021-03-26 17:13:35 RT @CACMmag: "The (Im)possibility of Fairness," by Sorelle A. Friedler @kdphd, Carlos @Scheidegger, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog… 2021-03-26 17:11:44 @davidschlangen Love love love "uncanny simulacrum of meaningfulness" 2021-03-26 17:08:22 @davidschlangen This is great. I want to see you give this talk! 2021-03-26 17:07:23 RT @davidschlangen: That's why incoherence in neural chat bots is not just a small problem. If p is claimed and shortly thereafter, not p,… 2021-03-26 17:05:21 "...authors should be rewarded, rather than punished, for being up front about the limitations and potential negative societal impact of their work." Top AI conference is articulating how AI research needs to modernize, and providing space for it. https://t.co/2lMvs5NgIC 2021-03-26 03:02:18 @timnitGebru @KrzemoweEcho @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu Like, REALLY weird. Like definitely something fishy. 2021-03-26 03:02:01 @timnitGebru @KrzemoweEcho @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu That people who, you would assume, understand the basics of deep learning and causal models can't wrap their heads around the idea that there may be millions of parameters representing something like "sexism", and it would be extremely weird if they all had weight 0. 2021-03-26 03:00:41 @timnitGebru @KrzemoweEcho @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu I need to write about this more. This notion that you can define a specific variable like "sexism" and then declare it to have no weight in a complex model you haven't trained not interpreted... 2021-03-26 02:53:42 @KrzemoweEcho @timnitGebru @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu Oh ok, nevermind then. Oh but qq -- how did you isolate the unique constellation of features that is sexism in order to determine that they all had 0.0 weight? 2021-03-25 23:42:31 A must-read to understand the culture of hostility and belittlement of women, and how that translates to women being spat out of tech. Also: "TOO ASSERTIVE"?! wtf! https://t.co/WSh3pk3oWW In awe of @IfeomaOzoma and @erikashimizu for their bravery, candor, and perserverance. 2021-03-25 23:37:20 @timnitGebru @JeffDean I'm not a punching bag, but it sure seemed like I served as one for people 2+ levels above me. 2021-03-25 23:36:30 @timnitGebru @JeffDean Told I was "not capable of self reflection", a pretty insulting psychological analysis from someone who has no background in psychology. 2021-03-25 23:34:58 @timnitGebru @JeffDean I also got called aggressive while also getting told I was not aggressive enough. Got told I hoarded projects while also getting told I paved the way for tons of new jobs and groups. 2021-03-25 23:30:49 @timnitGebru @JeffDean It's the kind of thing one might believe if they're only listening to 2 very territorial people within the Upper Crust circle, and not the hundreds of people working with the person they're insulting. 2021-03-25 23:29:04 RT @timnitGebru: Ozoma will offer main testimony on behalf of the bill....Banks’ powerful letter of support also has been submitted to Stat… 2021-03-25 17:41:07 RT @emilymbender: This was lots of fun to do with @mmitchell_ai and @samcharrington --- thank you @twimlai ! https://t.co/IcuRU4xt4j 2021-03-25 17:26:22 RT @AllonsMe: It’s been a tough year alright Duolingo < 2021-03-25 17:25:23 @emilymbender and I discussed our paper with @timnitGebru & 2021-03-25 16:49:28 RT @goldiegolightly: It's great seeing all this support for @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai. It means a lot. Google isn't looking good here.… 2021-03-25 02:04:11 RT @_object_lessons: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @luke_stark I hope broadly people look deeper at a person’s firing. The systems and power d… 2021-03-24 23:01:03 @timnitGebru @luke_stark Methinks the public response to that quote will be the opposite of what comms was aiming for... 2021-03-24 22:55:37 RT @timnitGebru: "A Google spokesperson said that, over the past 15 years, the company has furnished over 6,500 academic and research grant… 2021-03-24 22:55:17 RT @pardoguerra: Nice. I'm sure the lack of interest in job security that makes for a "different breed" of researchers is NOT correlated to… 2021-03-24 21:01:46 I think at this point a lot of companies (& 2021-03-24 20:56:41 @geomblog @KLdivergence @kdphd That's the spirit! 2021-03-24 19:08:43 Great article from @rachelmetz on further fallout from @timnitGebru's firing, including @luke_stark turning down the prestigious award, ICML, NeurIPS, and one of the first articles that correctly reports on me. https://t.co/k52wmTMEwE 2021-03-24 18:37:56 RT @marylgray: (h/t Rachel) full standing ovation to the authors @rajiinio @morganklauss & 2021-03-24 18:26:25 RT @jgonzalezbooks: We're committed to diversity but we can't hire you because you don't have experience even though we seem to know the re… 2021-03-24 18:23:18 @jonst0kes @emilymbender I ask because you're not the first person recently who mentioned "fights on Twitter" to me, but since I don't tend to fight on Twitter, how am I being grouped, and why? 2021-03-24 18:22:11 @jonst0kes @emilymbender Btw, what do you mean by "any of you"? How is that group being defined? I don't *think* I've had a serious disagreement with anyone publicly in years, other than Google, so it can't be that... 2021-03-24 18:18:57 RT @JediKhare: It's great that a conversation is happening around gender bias in AI. Scientists like @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai have be… 2021-03-24 06:59:02 RT @nasrinmmm: My hope is that more people learn about the option of deep-tech AI startups. The startup world needs diverse AI people, wome… 2021-03-24 06:58:12 RT @nasrinmmm: Also, not being dispensable & 2021-03-24 06:57:08 RT @nasrinmmm: However, there exists this other class of startups,called “deep-tech” that “provides technology based on overcoming substant… 2021-03-24 06:52:04 @jonst0kes @emilymbender Wait, me? Doesn't that mean that I'm awesome? 2021-03-24 06:51:30 @jonst0kes @emilymbender Woah really? I thought that's what was happening to me. That's actually what's been happening to you and all these other people? I'm sorry you're going through this. =( My fault. 2021-03-23 21:29:27 @hausman_k @CadeMetz ....but does it? 2021-03-23 19:10:09 @CadeMetz @swodinsky @timnitGebru Thank you! 2021-03-23 18:10:57 RT @BastingsJasmijn: Update!!! @aclmeeting now allows updates to preprints to correct people's names at all times. Read it here: https:/… 2021-03-23 18:07:11 @rglpwx @gchrupala @zehavoc @sjmielke @mjpost @jonst0kes ooo, I like "Orwellian shills". 2021-03-23 18:00:36 RT @kharijohnson: "In their current reported form, none of the machine learning models included in this review are likely candidates for cl… 2021-03-23 17:58:26 @jonst0kes @emilymbender @sjmielke @zehavoc @gchrupala @mjpost https://t.co/bz5H20kIqx 2021-03-23 17:49:25 RT @emilymbender: @jonst0kes @sjmielke @zehavoc @gchrupala @mmitchell_ai @mjpost Furthermore, if (as often happens), merely pointing out ra… 2021-03-23 17:44:53 @lisadawn2000 @timnitGebru I didn't earn a PhD in Linguistics! Crediting me with that is offensive to linguists, IMO... 2021-03-23 17:30:54 "I don't think this is going to blow over"... https://t.co/kfCFPaq26B 2021-03-22 20:26:34 @_KarenHao @catherinehyeo Yaaay! Wikipedia famous! 2021-03-22 20:25:31 @mjpost @jonst0kes But I do hurt from this. So calling me the "woke crowd" or saying this is about "distraction", that makes this experience so much more miserable. 2021-03-22 20:23:59 @mjpost @jonst0kes I also appreciate all the help I can get! It's hard to be a target for some reason of a major corp that you were up til then getting along with, and to be alone in that. I'm just trying to get back to research. I don't like fights, I'm not a fighty person... 2021-03-22 20:19:53 @CadeMetz @bohannon_bot @timnitGebru Thanks! Also minor correction: We didn't so much as "work for" Google's Ethical AI team, as I founded it (It took me 2 years and was hard!) then Timnit and I co-led it. That's part of what makes our firings even weirder: we weren't EthAI employees, but founder/leads of the thing. 2021-03-22 20:12:23 @mjpost @jonst0kes What if wading in was never consensual? Or you don't 100% know what the "woke crowd" is, but sounds like something that was ascribed to you, also non-consensually......? I don't think it's a "distraction", I think it's my very painful (yes) life, and I have no say over that. 2021-03-22 19:50:41 Gets a couple things wrong I can clear up: 1 My last name is Mitchell. =) 2 I'm actually a Dr! Weird right? @timnitGebru too! Both of us, at the same time! 3 ps, that means PhD in Computer Science, not Linguistics. Altho I'm good at a lot of things!! TY! https://t.co/NwyAQ0FgzK 2021-03-22 19:37:29 RT @erikashimizu: This is why #SB331 the #SilencedNoMore Act is so important. I champion this bill alongside @SenatorLeyva @CELA_Lawyers @E… 2021-03-22 03:31:51 RT @timnitGebru: So excited for this tomorrow. Continually amazed by the amount of groundbreaking work Joy does, & 2021-03-21 21:46:14 @cajundiscordian @timnitGebru @luke_stark I'm seriously trying to figure it out. Why would they do this? 2021-03-21 21:41:03 @cajundiscordian @timnitGebru @luke_stark The problem isn't general public, it's just the very small set of future employers. Which is why this feels so insidious and personal to me. Why would my former management try to mess up my future employment? We respected each other. They were--are--actively building off my work. 2021-03-21 20:51:01 @mikarv HA! 2021-03-21 20:49:29 ...institutionalized tokenism starts to break down. 2021-03-21 20:49:16 OTOH, I saw glimmers of a new culture where women support & 2021-03-21 20:33:23 @timnitGebru I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm trying to point out that exactly this kind of normalized behavior is preposterous, so why do we keep pretending it's not even noteworthy? Because, in context of the system, it is not noteworthy. That's the problem. 2021-03-21 20:31:49 @timnitGebru There was a small set of people at my former company who made my environment hostile. One of them was a woman. She didn't like my personality or behavior, and harmed me. She wasn't a researcher but the structure supported her trying to crush my & 2021-03-21 20:20:07 RT @jovialjoy: As I like to say-If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about how AI shapes our lives. Watch @IndependentL… 2021-03-21 20:15:11 @EddieCussen @christensendkuk Hahaha, yeah, I was thinking that too. I went back and forth. But if it was 1/x + b, I couldn't call it an "inequality triangle". Plus explaining that function to general audiences may risk making the point harder to understand. 2021-03-21 20:13:19 @Abebab Our team specifically examined "racism", "sexism", "ableism", "ageism": We called the bias what it was. 2021-03-21 09:22:26 RT @DrLukeOR: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru The second to bottom question is a killer! Did *they* tell you the problem is fixed? 2021-03-21 09:21:49 @Gayle_McF @timnitGebru Fine w me, esp if you credit me. =) 2021-03-21 09:20:20 RT @JackMeriwether: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru Wait. So, you had to act as HR AND a Researcher? They should have compensated you twice your… 2021-03-20 22:36:19 @timnitGebru Haha, oh yeah!! https://t.co/po5zKXfFcU 2021-03-20 22:18:59 Talking to my former team about the trade-off between (1) the amount of diversity there is in a hierarchical organization, and (2) how power and culture is distributed. Came up with the "Inequality Triangle". Did someone smarter than me not already invent this? https://t.co/nTn2EAJybp 2021-03-20 20:17:39 RT @jftaveira1993: #Google is desperately trying to save face after recently kicking to the curb @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai, two of the… 2021-03-20 20:15:03 RT @kshaughnessy2: Wow - talk about standing up. @luke_stark acknowledges his privilege in being able to make this decision, but urges oth… 2021-03-20 19:06:23 @ekp Holy crap. How many eyes read that before publishing and didn't see anything wrong with it? 2021-03-20 01:46:18 @timnitGebru @luke_stark Sorry to make this all about me. Today is one of the days of devastation and pain I can't make stop. 2021-03-20 01:45:47 @timnitGebru @luke_stark Misogyny is...making one of your employees sound nefarious publicly, with confidential info even she doesn't have access to, foreseeably destroying her lifelong career, and all trust of her colleagues, when she doesn't even really understand what she's being accused of. 2021-03-19 22:21:25 RT @lestevenhanna: everyone has a little power to stand with @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai in solidarity and seeing acts like this makes m… 2021-03-19 22:21:09 RT @sunhahong: Luke is an absolutely brilliant researcher. He's taken on significant, tangible costs in declining the award in solidarity w… 2021-03-19 17:56:45 RT @Sharronapearl: I am so moved by how @luke_stark frames this extremely courageous decision, standing in solidarity with researchers at g… 2021-03-19 17:55:59 RT @vj_chidambaram: It takes a lot of strength and clarity to reject an award that you have just received (especially as an Assistant Profe… 2021-03-19 17:54:31 RT @Alice_J_Grimm: Yes!!! White folks, this is what we need to do! To say “this is wrong and I’m not going to benefit from it.” https://t… 2021-03-19 17:54:24 RT @KendraSerra: Luke literally putting his money where his mouth is. That's why he's the best. https://t.co/O2MKnoaAwB 2021-03-19 17:52:34 @rachelmetz Yeah, it means so much. @timnitGebru and I both made choices in line with AI ethics, and so lost our income. @luke_stark is also in our AI ethics world and is doing exactly what we did--staying true to the values in our work and academic field, even when it means hard sacrifice. 2021-03-19 17:46:48 RT @rachelmetz: wow, that is a really sending a message. these awards are up to $60k. https://t.co/65Bo2bZEvS https://t.co/5XPlR8kqoU 2021-03-19 17:36:40 @luke_stark I already respected you so deeply, and my respect for you now overflows. Thank you so so much. It means so much to me that you care this much about what's happened to us. 2021-03-19 17:33:01 Thank you so much @luke_stark for this. I think I was even one of the reviewers for your award. This means so much and I'm in awe that you respect us to the point of standing up for us. Thank you so much for your support. https://t.co/nzsmR5OlZR 2021-03-19 04:33:55 RT @chelseyglasson: History has shown us that Google goes to great lengths to cover up illegal executive misconduct. These executives are w… 2021-03-18 21:53:22 When an organization's actions are indistinguishable from what a misogynist would do, maybe it's time to rethink why it's ok for that organization to have enough power to belittle or destroy women's lives. Happy Women's History Month. 2021-03-18 21:43:13 @ekp Maybe they're trying to show how hatred for Asian Women manifests itself in headlines. 2021-03-17 18:54:06 RT @rajiinio: Oh, this is happening tonight! https://t.co/NeHIvOmSME 2021-03-17 17:53:10 @timnitGebru Good thing @dylnbkr owned the colab & 2021-03-17 17:46:31 @CadeMetz did an incredible job pulling together so many different threads on combating AI racism, through the lens of a small group of 4 who have been iterating on this for years: @timnitGebru, @jovialjoy, @rajiinio, & 2021-03-17 17:38:14 RT @erikashimizu: What we measure illuminates what we care about. Thank you for this work, @timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, and this whole team… 2021-03-17 17:38:04 Diversity & Thanks @dylnbkr for driving, @adamrpearce @EllenJiang2 for finishing up once @timnitGebru and I were booted. Also draws from minds of @jamiemorgenste1 @nunuska @alexhanna @cephaloponderer @benhutchinson @ZaldivarPhD . https://t.co/6USfxGJEqT 2021-03-17 17:29:27 RT @mmitchell_ai: Our team made an Explorable!! Check it out!! This explains "Diversity" and "Inclusion" as mathematical concepts. https://… 2021-03-17 17:13:14 @timnitGebru I guess they didn't care about Diversity and Inclusion after all............. 2021-03-17 17:12:29 @timnitGebru Q1 OKR complete! 2021-03-17 17:11:15 @laurenceb And allowing executives to spread wide-scale misinformation and misdirection, without allowing an accompanying Q& 2021-03-17 17:05:09 @dylnbkr YAY YOU! 2021-03-17 17:04:55 Our team made an Explorable!! Check it out!! This explains "Diversity" and "Inclusion" as mathematical concepts. https://t.co/QkBX4zFNRZ This follows from our paper last year: https://t.co/ltLDU4m3RO https://t.co/8PI3cuLuvo 2021-03-17 17:01:44 @adamrpearce @EllenJiang2 @dylnbkr @timnitGebru YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! 2021-03-17 16:58:25 @nsaphra Nice!! Thanks for sharing. 2021-03-17 04:36:37 @_KarenHao I am so sorry you have to know this hatred. Sending you good thoughts. 2021-03-17 03:50:56 @rajiinio +1, that was my read from this article as well. Thanks for putting this so clearly. 2021-03-17 02:19:29 @jacopotagliabue @MetaflowOSS @weights_biases Cool!! 2021-03-17 00:18:52 RT @timnitGebru: I wish more press outlets covered Chelsey's situation. The way Google has hounded her for 3 years is despicable. They are… 2021-03-16 23:13:53 @camillefrancois Amazing!! Congrats! 2021-03-16 21:16:46 @Abebab It's the same idea inherent in "below the bar", as Jeff Dean said about Timnit& https://t.co/xxVNgSSATd 2021-03-16 21:14:23 @Abebab "devalues Black women's intellectual contributions"--now the world is seeing what this looks like, VERY publicly, in real time, with multiple Black women. 2021-03-16 21:02:09 @Abebab You're not grandstanding. You're exposing reality that people so desperately don't want to believe that they'll fight back instead. Thank you for showing us this and not backing down. 2021-03-16 20:58:38 RT @Abebab: Last Wednesday, on the 10th of March-2021, @vinayprabhu & 2021-03-16 20:55:16 RT @anoushnajarian: Thank you Dr @timnitGebru leading #AI researcher & 2021-03-16 20:33:46 @dlowd @timnitGebru Ooooo good call. I KNEW if I waited long enough my Tamagotchis would be socially relevant again! 2021-03-16 16:35:40 @YoSignals Yeah it's a good point. This gets to the corporation vs. human distinction. 2021-03-16 16:33:58 @timnitGebru IDK if they're hacker spies, I think the spies use software created for them. But yeah good point ok maybe I don't want that job then. 2021-03-16 16:31:32 @laurenceb @timnitGebru Oh that's interesting. Before I was shunned, was trying to figure out how to host an unofficial All Hands (All Feet?) on Timnit's firing, and saw that such a meeting was only allowed for "business purposes". Figured this was another vague term that would just be used to punish. 2021-03-16 16:26:50 @timnitGebru I keep thinking that if being a hacker spy could get me a good new job, maybe I should just roll with it. 2021-03-16 16:25:08 Appreciate the academics making it clear that what Google has done is not okay. I honestly don't think they would care otherwise. =( https://t.co/2mQNexJAcI 2021-03-16 16:21:49 RT @tsimonite: Google is running an invite only robotics workshop this week. Two academics withdrew in protest of the company's treatment o… 2021-03-16 16:21:36 RT @cephaloponderer: There is still time to submit to the paper track of the first CVPR workshop on Ethical Considerations in Creative appl… 2021-03-15 21:55:34 RT @rajiinio: So far, we've been learning so much about how practices from the security space can inform our approaches to identifying, pri… 2021-03-15 21:39:44 @vinodkpg @timnitGebru Maybe this is what I was thinking... 2021-03-15 21:38:09 RT @KristiCCoulter: @mmitchell_ai Amen. 99% of women who make it that far in tech/corporate careers don’t get there by being loose cannons… 2021-03-15 20:42:29 @VidaVakil @timnitGebru In a system that usu doesn't allow ppl < 2021-03-15 20:28:59 @ptullochott @timnitGebru @alexhanna +1. Yet again, my partner pointed out, "See this all makes a lot more sense once Alex explains it." 2021-03-15 20:13:06 The suspension of disbelief required to think that one of Google's most senior female research scientists, a woman in her mid-30s who has dedicated her life to her career above all else, would suddenly just be a loose cannon, is only possible from a misogynistic viewpoint. 2021-03-15 19:59:05 Although I've enjoyed the narrative of being a badass AI ethics practitioner. It's an important contrast with the tired, sexist, and misogynistic cliche that "she suddenly went crazy". 2021-03-15 19:54:18 This article is the first time I've weighed in on what Google may have been referring to in their public statements about me. I think their statements framed me as nefarious, sneaky, or out of control. But actually I'm more boring than that. https://t.co/n3PDyqtkRs 2021-03-15 19:38:22 @rajiinio @DiverseInAI @timnitGebru @AJLUnited @jovialjoy @ZoubinGhahrama1 Hehehhee. Thanks Deb. Either way, I'm glad I'm here and so lucky to know and work with you guys. 2021-03-15 19:29:17 @timnitGebru Had you ever heard of "business sensitive" before? I was wondering if this is a case where the act of saying it publicly makes it so. "These emails are sensitive because we are talking about these emails being sensitive." There is a word for that that's escaping me... 2021-03-15 19:26:35 @timnitGebru Men can bully and harm others. Women who bully no one and harm no one will be disposed of and smeared, though. Cos why not. We're essentially objects, not people, much less advanced researchers. 2021-03-15 19:24:45 @timnitGebru The news about the protection, promotion & 2021-03-15 19:20:39 @ptullochott @timnitGebru Maybe now that they got rid of those pesky high-pitched women voices that were increasingly succeeding in reshaping Google, they can relax and everything can just be back to normal. 2021-03-15 19:13:09 @DiverseInAI @timnitGebru @AJLUnited @jovialjoy @rajiinio @ZoubinGhahrama1 Appreciate it, but I think I'm mostly a "+1" in this article. 2021-03-15 19:09:10 @timnitGebru It's a good thing Jeff has never broken any code of conduct nor security policy, or else this statement would sound like a hypocritical excuse for disposing of someone you find inconvenient. 2021-03-14 19:51:54 @beausievers I like it! 2021-03-14 19:50:04 RT @anoushnajarian: @leonpalafox @DiverseInAI @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai “Know the function, the very serious function of racism, is distra… 2021-03-14 18:55:32 @timnitGebru @leonpalafox @DiverseInAI Yeah, I felt similar. I follow @DiverseInAI and seeing this Leon person just make up stuff as fact that makes things sound horrible is hard. Just block them. That said, they're giving a useful view into the narrative that Google appears to be pushing. 2021-03-14 09:04:24 RT @Abebab: "With its “impressively deep knowledge of extremist communities”, #GPT-3 can produce polemics parroting Nazis, conspiracy theor… 2021-03-13 21:25:21 @ekp +1 2021-03-13 21:10:37 @lesley_jeffries I got this somewhere and keep it above my desk. https://t.co/1K7l4vQf2g 2021-03-13 21:05:55 @lesley_jeffries "Let's be clear" is another one, and is very similar to the turns of phrase one learns when being 'media-trained' on how to own the conversation. 2021-03-13 21:04:32 @lesley_jeffries At one point I examed the use of gesture in political debate. Very clear that there are specific gestures recommended for different kinds of points. If politicians are trained in gesture, they almost certainly are trained in turns of phrase to use for specific kinds of points. 2021-03-13 20:49:59 @_KarenHao Misinformation misinformation? 2021-03-13 20:01:05 @timnitGebru This was bonkers to read. When you are speaking as the voice of Google, you should respect your competitors and communicate as adults. I do love the phrase "naked corporate opportunism". Will store that one away, perhaps for use as a personal insult, when inebriated. 2021-03-12 18:34:01 RT @IfeomaOzoma: Now I just need a plan for when I lose COBRA. “But right now, Ozoma is done being anyone's employee. After working for… 2021-03-12 18:29:12 @timnitGebru A language model and a simple automated script could trivially blast millions of these emails to Black women, without ceasing. 2021-03-12 18:11:13 This is a really lucid description of several interacting factors at play wrt the firing of me and @timnitGebru . It helped me better understand some of the issues. Thank you to this writer for capturing all of this. https://t.co/SpIV0BvAKv 2021-03-12 17:56:01 @HadasKressGazit @timnitGebru Thank you for this. 2021-03-12 17:51:45 @geomblog @_KarenHao Very very well put, thanks for this thread. 2021-03-11 20:35:36 @schrep @_KarenHao I see a fundamental observation in this work: That we can do better. Across AI, inside and outside companies, we're all learning the issues and working towards solutions. 2021-03-11 18:40:09 Thanks @rachelmetz for covering. "[@timnitGebru] joined Google in September 2018, at Mitchell's urging, as the co-leader..." And for that, I am so, so, sorry. I brought so many people into harm's way because I thought our work was respected and assumed good intent. https://t.co/y4mxrEy6zO 2021-03-11 18:10:38 RT @ptullochott: Four new friends have their recent work life in ethical AI documented here in their struggle to ensure justice and inclus… 2021-03-11 18:06:00 Important piece out from the incredible @_KarenHao . An inside look at operationalizing "Responsible AI" in tech. "It's about good people genuinely trying to do the right thing. But they're trapped in a rotten system, trying their best to push the status quo that won't budge." https://t.co/WHvyfKRSTH 2021-03-11 18:01:34 @Abebab Ugh, this has happened to me too. Tell the editors. They will probably "both sides" it, which is even more draining, but at least your side will be represented. 2021-03-11 17:58:36 RT @_KarenHao: These two charts in the piece are actually WILD. It is not a pipeline problem. It is not a pipeline problem. It is not a pi… 2021-03-11 17:56:31 RT @vinodkpg: Excited to see our #FAccT2021 paper on re-imagining algorithmic fairness for India covered by @kharijohnson at VentureBeat. I… 2021-03-11 17:42:21 RT @kharijohnson: @emilymbender @_KarenHao @rachelmetz This quote from @autopoietic et al has been ringing in my ear all week: "Technology… 2021-03-11 17:41:52 RT @alexhanna: This piece by @_KarenHao hits the nail on the head with the problems of "AI bias" research as conceptualized by large tech c… 2021-03-11 16:39:54 @_KarenHao This. 2021-03-10 23:21:39 @dlowd 2021-03-10 23:00:52 @KLdivergence @emilymbender Thank you, it was awesome! 2021-03-10 19:12:33 RT @alexhanna: Come to the #facct21 town hall and provide feedback! https://t.co/6BGeV2Zy01 2021-03-10 18:40:39 UW article up with me (alum) and @emilymbender (prof) about our language model research with @timnitGebru . Also the talk is coming up in a little over an hour! https://t.co/BGue7d2NMN 2021-03-09 19:31:46 This can be applied, e.g., to a model that is actively deployed as it receives new kinds of inputs and domain shifts. This means you could uncover problematic associations continuously and on-the-fly, addressing them before issues occur. (4/n) 2021-03-09 19:29:11 This is very much WIP! We were working on it as I was exfiltrated, so had to put it up on arxiv. But I think the critical basics are there. (3/n) 2021-03-09 19:27:50 Trivial to implement--tons of ML fairness applications. Featuring work from two incredible engineers, Ken Burke and Osman Aka @xpuff_xtina ) 2021-03-09 19:22:37 Uncover model stereotypes with this one easy trick! We demonstrate how to surface a ranked list of problematic associations (think: woman/smile https://t.co/2qfbv6iiuz (1/n) 2021-03-09 18:17:39 RT @Abebab: Issa Kohler-Hausmann is "To have a gender in a society is to have a society where people imbue preference formations based… 2021-03-09 17:43:14 @marypcbuk @timnitGebru Love this idea. 2021-03-09 17:40:19 RT @shalinikantayya: #FacialRecognition tech didn’t recognize @jovialjoy until she put on a white mask. She is one of the genius women chan… 2021-03-09 17:22:40 RT @andrei_chiffa: Seeing AI safety researchers put down their chalk and keyboards and start running around with megaphones trying to warn… 2021-03-09 17:16:09 @KLdivergence Same same same 2021-03-08 23:51:37 RT @kharijohnson: In papers accepted for publication at the @FAccTConference, AI researchers from Africa and India spoke with experts about… 2021-03-08 23:50:50 RT @baxterkb: #facct21 talk by @alexhanna, @mmitchell_ai, @benhutchinson, Emily Denton, Andrew Smart, & 2021-03-08 17:58:44 Sometimes I wake up & Thank you for covering the nuances of AI ethics, diversity, and our own story! https://t.co/VljhZAFvOI 2021-03-08 17:41:35 !! Thank you @GoogleWalkout for highlighting serious issues in AI Ethics! And thank you for this amazing support! "[Our team] spent significant energy working in the public interest...critically examined...AI systems..whose potential harms...were likely to be overlooked." TY! https://t.co/py6D6TW2YQ 2021-03-08 17:28:55 RT @FAccTConference: "COVID technologies have normalized a new way of being. They also exposed inequities that are baked into society. I wo… 2021-03-08 17:22:07 RT @alexhanna: Jumping on one of my first #FAccT21 thing today! @rajiinio @sedyst and @MarzyehGhassemi talking about health inequities, ML,… 2021-03-08 17:09:10 RT @m_c_elish: Today's #FAccT2021 plenary sessions focus on health, data, and in/equity Join @YESHICAN on @Data4BlackLives in discuss… 2021-03-08 00:14:45 What's described here happened to me too. Thank you @aprilaser for surfacing. We could make progress in tech inclusion once we stop confusing the effects (trauma) with the cause (an alienating environment). Painful to read and re-live 2021-03-08 00:00:19 RT @aprilaser: When Google employees complained to human resources about racism or sexism at work, they were advised to seek mental health… 2021-03-07 23:44:28 @timnitGebru Hahahaahahaha. This is too real. BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF EAP? quickly became a "joke" amongst many of us when discussing systemic gender and race issues. 2021-03-07 23:31:03 @EricaJoy @ekp This observation is so eye-opening. It has continued to roll through my head for these past months. I had never made the connection and it explains so much. 2021-03-07 23:21:51 RT @tiffani: There is something wrong with always framing uplift from a place of deficiency. 2021-03-07 21:06:33 @RealAbril @CiCiAdams_ @aprilaser Wow, this happened to me too. =( Thank you for shining this light. 2021-03-07 20:52:16 @nitashatiku @washingtonpost @RealAbril Thank you for this! 2021-03-07 20:51:34 RT @nitashatiku: My story‘s on the front page of the @washingtonpost‼ I talked to @RealAbril, Google workers, HBCU grads/faculty, & 2021-03-06 23:47:18 RT @ZoeSchiffer: I wrote about the harassment campaign against @timnitGebru which has been going on since she was fired in December. The me… 2021-03-06 23:47:05 RT @_KarenHao: A brilliant story from Zoë on the threats and harassment that Timnit has been experiencing behind the scenes. I’m jealous I… 2021-03-06 02:47:10 RT @rajiinio: Finally, it's out! It's here! In this paper, me, @morganklauss & 2021-03-06 02:46:56 RT @krob: This is absolutely brilliant work! imho it's up there with some of the best work on CS education Epistemological Pluralism… 2021-03-05 21:57:28 RT @mahimapushkarna: A year or so ago while working on #datacards, I told @ZaldivarPhD "transparent documentation seems like an opaque deal… 2021-03-03 18:25:25 RT @anoushnajarian: Thank you @FAccTConference for modeling the way for conference organizers & 2021-03-02 02:03:00 RT @emilymbender: @timnitGebru I should have kept a tally of how much time I've spent over the last two months dealing with this crap becau… 2021-03-01 23:46:38 RT @emilymbender: Better late than never, I suppose, but as one of the targets of his harassment, I could have wished that you didn't embol… 2021-03-01 19:52:20 RT @SeeTedTalk: and now all of a sudden nlp is out in the wild, being used, and in many ways not being understood. and the fault for that c… 2021-03-01 18:23:13 RT @DrCanner: Thanks @KLdivergence and @ruchowdh for this article - it is perfect to share with my students (and friends)! What is an “algo… 2021-03-01 01:17:37 I abruptly lost my job 9 days ago. Tomorrow I lose my healthcare. This is the "view from the top" for a successful female AI research scientist who has built her career for over 15 years. 2021-02-27 02:52:15 @timnitGebru @JeffDean @MCroak yeah...this is pretty scary. 2021-02-27 01:43:30 RT @timnitGebru: An *investigation* where they concluded that I "departed" myself like a magician? Also why wait until another Friday afte… 2021-02-22 06:44:28 To everyone who's reached out, thanks! To everyone I've worked with closely for 4 years, I've loved you as work family, thank you for working w/ & 2021-02-19 22:19:59 RT @geomblog: The beatings will continue until morale improves. 2021-02-19 22:02:44 I'm fired. 2021-02-19 22:01:48 Yeah. End of week 5. I'm in too much pain to articulate much of anything useful. Firing @timnitGebru created a domino effect of trauma for me and the rest of the team, and I believe we are being increasingly punished for that trauma. https://t.co/TwBxVdwYuD 2021-02-19 21:59:44 RT @emilymbender: Fun to relisten (hi @rctatman !) my two favorite moments: 1. App developers have a super-power! (Listen to find out what… 2021-02-19 21:59:02 RT @math_rachel: Samy Bengio (a director at Google AI w/ 300 reports, who spoke up for Timnit) is being pushed aside the same week Jeff Dea… 2021-02-19 20:22:00 @TSchnoebelen @emilymbender Jennifer Daniel at Google has been working on both this and interracial emoji groupings. https://t.co/mYyW2D1qAf 2021-02-19 20:04:39 RT @ShannonVallor: These changes— like tying exec pay to meeting DI objectives, or staffing for retention — would never have occurred witho… 2021-02-19 19:57:24 RT @mekkaokereke: Happy Black History month! Why do Americans tip at restaurants? Why is the real US minimum wage $2.13 per hour! After… 2021-02-19 19:03:21 My partner: "I prefer following @alexhanna to understand why you're in a bad mood. Your tweets are confusing. Actually I don't follow you. Just Alex." Hehehehehehehe 2021-02-19 18:53:37 RT @Rasa_HQ: Join @rctatman on the Rasa Chats Podcast as she talks with @emilymbender from @UW about ethics in #NLP, who's responsible for… 2021-02-19 18:53:04 RT @anoushnajarian: 'the older you get, the more you appreciate people who can just say the thing, and damn does Timnit “yass, kween!” deli… 2021-02-19 18:43:46 RT @axios: Google told employees today it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru. The com… 2021-02-19 18:10:14 RT @annargrs: @yoavgo @dirk_hovy @MilaNLProc @svolkova @veronicaelynn @HAndySchwartz @_AdrianBenton_ @mmitchell_ai @eltimster @megamor2 @Jo… 2021-02-19 17:49:36 RT @tanzinavega: The US obsession with positive thinking is toxic. Positive thinking does not combat structural racism and sexism. 2021-02-19 17:34:09 Tons to quote here. "The irony is that...it really never had to come to this. Sure, she was frustrated. And so was I. But it could’ve just been a respectful conversation. " https://t.co/zN3vAIKw9d 2021-02-19 17:30:03 @justkelly_ok ....yeah I feel that. =( Can you get a litigation hold? 2021-02-19 17:24:22 RT @annargrs: @dirk_hovy @MilaNLProc @svolkova @veronicaelynn @HAndySchwartz @_AdrianBenton_ @mmitchell_ai @eltimster In that vein: individ… 2021-02-19 06:53:31 It's happening everywhere. https://t.co/RgrJ4BpW8W 2021-02-19 06:41:06 RT @laurenceb: Funny how this gets dropped late the night before it's supposedly going to be announced. Folks on the teams can't comment us… 2021-02-19 06:30:57 RT @KevinKaichuang: What if I flip a coin 1e6 times, throw out half the heads, train an unbiased estimator on the remaining data, and then… 2021-02-19 04:36:21 RT @IfeomaOzoma: If you’ve had questions about the Silenced No More Act, there’s a good chance this amazing thread from @ourbodypolitic wil… 2021-02-19 02:05:09 @ShannonVallor @timnitGebru I really appreciate your kindness here, thank you so much. 2021-02-19 01:37:37 Alienation gives rise to radicalization. This is an important bit to wrap one's head around. If you're a company struggling with employees who seem increasingly radicalized, the most effective way to further radicalize them is to further alienate them. Inclusion helps. 2021-02-19 01:30:33 RT @red_abebe: We're launching the @black_in_ai Academic Program, which builds on the grad app mentoring program from the past 3 years. T… 2021-02-19 01:29:46 @tsimonite It feels like galvanizing the unique talent to jump straight off a cliff. =( 2021-02-19 01:17:25 @math_rachel @timnitGebru Thank you for articulating! 2021-02-19 01:16:42 @emilymbender @Timnit @timnitGebru Yeah, 'diplomatic' triggered me. One side has been alienating and belittling and refusing to have a conversation, while suppressing tech minority researcher careers. The other side has begged for help and diplomacy until starting to scream, and then told they were being too loud. 2021-02-19 01:12:58 RT @emilymbender: @Timnit Merriam-Webster on the relevant sense of "diplomatic": "employing tact and conciliation especially in situations… 2021-02-19 00:10:00 RT @VentureBeat: Google's new AI ethics lead calls for more 'diplomatic' conversation https://t.co/wOKKPEKud1 by @kharijohnson 2021-02-18 20:49:28 RT @dylnbkr: Love to learn about my own team's reorg from Bloomberg!! cool and normal! 2021-02-18 18:29:17 ...And this is how I find out. I'm so glad for all the trust they've rebuilt. It seems I've been completely erased and my team taken. https://t.co/1BTGOo5Wry 2021-02-18 06:00:50 RT @dinabass: At Google where AI ethics researchers are still reeling from @timnitGebru's dismissal & 2021-02-18 03:05:32 RT @emilymbender: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru @sibinmohan @RealAbril I'm still just bewildered at how many times Google has made the wrong m… 2021-02-17 21:34:26 Also good advice when considering whether someone should be your manager https://t.co/vRGy7dl9Yj 2021-02-17 20:14:51 @geomblog Oh and my March-April thing last year alcohols and storage materials. Just ask me about thermoplastic polymers! Epidemiology was more May. 2021-02-17 20:11:46 @geomblog Omg I was just thinking this, hahaha. My Jan-Feb thing is labor law. 2021-02-17 19:44:08 RT @abrokencolumn: @RiverToSea48 https://t.co/Y7Sz6nhnld 2021-02-17 19:42:22 RT @StatalieT: Some participants acknowledged that they'd been drawn in by AI hype into overestimating what these models can do. One person… 2021-02-17 19:35:20 RT @NUlabTMN: We’re excited to announce our upcoming panel, “The Ethics of Digital Image Analysis,” featuring @alexhanna, @clepsydras, @luk… 2021-02-17 19:24:46 RT @ACLU: BREAKING: We’re calling on President Biden to pause all federal government use of face recognition technology. This tech is flaw… 2021-02-17 19:12:41 @LeonDerczynski SHH DONT MENTION THAT THAT PROBLEM ISNT REAL IT'S ACTUALLY JUST ANTIFA 2021-02-17 19:09:20 @mikeonitstuff @tiffani @IanColdwater Also that doesn't happen. 2021-02-17 19:08:12 Pretending to address racism and sexism in the workplace via 'mentorship': "There is something wrong with always framing uplift from a place of deficiency." https://t.co/2JXbXJY2Ly 2021-02-17 19:05:15 RT @gleemie: Are you someone who uses Amazon Mechanical Turk for research and development? Do you want to do something to help Turkers? Rep… 2021-02-17 19:05:02 RT @timnitGebru: This is something we should be supporting. 2021-02-17 19:04:05 RT @SaraNAhmed: In case anyone is interested in listening to my March 3rd lecture for IMMA 'Complaint, Diversity and Other Hostile Environm… 2021-02-17 19:01:33 @anoushnajarian @SilverJacket @alexhanna @IasonGabriel @timnitGebru @KatieShilton @black_in_ai Thank you so much for this @anoushnajarian ! 2021-02-17 15:39:30 RT @gulvarol: 5 years ago I met @timnitGebru when co-organizing the next WiCV. After a few months of virtual meetings when we first met at… 2021-02-17 15:39:28 RT @gulvarol: 5 years ago Margaret has been my mentor at WiCV. I still remember every single advice to this date. The same morning I attend… 2021-02-16 22:37:01 @timnitGebru I went to UW for my masters to work under @emilymbender ! Was life changing and so glad I did it. And so grateful to Emily for creating the program. 2021-02-16 22:31:33 Come! AI Ethics will make more sense after attending. https://t.co/vizHf0tXpA 2021-02-16 22:26:41 RT @jackclarkSF: Awesome dataset archaeology about Google's JFT dataset. 2021-02-16 22:25:14 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @sibinmohan @RealAbril Can a corporation foment harassment or reputational damage for a specific person who has nothing to do with that corporation? What can and can't a corporation do to employees vs non employees? So many questions to learn the hard way. 2021-02-16 22:23:23 @emilymbender @timnitGebru @sibinmohan @RealAbril I've pointed out to the relevant parties that public statements about the shoddiness of our research harms you, a brilliant professor who has nothing to do with Google issues. I don't think it matters. I don't know if any collateral damage to anyone actually matters. 2021-02-16 22:13:22 RT @emilymbender: @timnitGebru @sibinmohan And more to the point: @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai (and @RealAbril and others) your shedding… 2021-02-16 21:30:37 @AlanVRK @wokyleeks @LissackMichael @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean @pmddomingos @realrobcopeland Good to know, thanks! 2021-02-16 21:22:18 @AlanVRK @wokyleeks @LissackMichael @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean @pmddomingos @realrobcopeland Yeah. The weird thing is I spoke up about exactly this risk to the appropriate parties before I was bumped out. If you're an entity and not a person, is knowingly catalyzing harassment legal maybe? 2021-02-16 21:15:22 @deckeresq @sibinmohan @timnitGebru I think this is right...I'm debating whether to email him to tell him to stop bothering all of these other people but I do not know if that is legally the right move or the wrong move. =/ 2021-02-16 21:12:58 RT @timnitGebru: @sibinmohan He is just spending 24/7 doing this. Emailing everyone, stalking, etc. I have no idea what his endgame is. May… 2021-02-16 02:09:36 RT @rajiinio: This @NewYorker article heavily features our #NBIAIR workshop @NeurIPSConf & 2021-02-15 23:24:08 Maybe it's not Black women who need to be trained. Maybe the people powering the system that says Black women need to be trained could use some training instead. https://t.co/CM62U7025I 2021-02-15 23:18:48 RT @morganklauss: CU wrote a piece on me, my research, and my receiving of the MSR fellowship :) https://t.co/m0yKyXph8C 2021-02-15 21:20:21 I don't know how @timnitGebru ever had the energy to keep fighting. Where I just get worn out, Dr. Gebru's tirelessness seems to have ended up wearing out her superiors. And so here we are. 2021-02-15 21:16:28 Being myself has meant living with constant pain. 2021-02-15 21:16:01 You are therefore *aggressive*. And this is cause for more shunning. 2021-02-15 21:15:41 You also have to "fight" for opportunities available to your male peers. 2021-02-15 21:14:26 If you care about your career, you have to therefore "fight" to remove the additional barriers -- see, eg, my current barrier. All of my professional work is actively being taken from me, and has been for weeks. So I have to start my work from scratch. While being shunned. 2021-02-15 21:09:53 Worse than that -- they're regularly regarded as wrong. Being constantly treated as wrong in a system that creates more barriers and less opportunities for you compared to your male peers is not great. 2021-02-15 21:02:01 @alexhanna I'm just so fucking tired of this today. 2021-02-15 21:01:45 @alexhanna We are left to fight alone, with the only option for help being crying out on social media. That means MORE reasons for us to be targeted and hated, by forcing us to fight. To fight for the same opportunities as our colleagues. I do not welcome being backed into a fight corner. 2021-02-15 20:59:07 @alexhanna The careers of 11 researchers here are being knowingly thrashed by their employer, who recruited them. But we're all tech minorities, so the lack of movement or any real discussion is painfully predictable. 2021-02-15 20:53:34 In other words, even after being a world expert with a long and productive career, I still have not made it to a stage in tech where my thoughts or analytical abilities seem to particularly matter. 2021-02-15 20:51:34 My career is possible in part because of an intensely honed ability to see and work with patterns. This is arguably why I'm employable at all. That same ability, applied to anything outside of my papers, is largely rejected as being misguided or "in my head". 2021-02-15 20:49:22 I've been publishing in ML/CS for 14 years and have been working in tech for 7. 2021-02-15 20:46:21 If you're a masochist, you will intentionally stay in situations that are harmful for you. That belittle you. You believe you "deserve" it. 2021-02-15 20:45:35 I increasingly believe that I stay in situations like this because I live with a chronic hurt that has become indistinguishable from the world I envelop myself in. 2021-02-15 20:44:03 Constant judgment and alienation as a CS research scientist who doesn't look/talk like what is accepted of tech woman is exhausting. You already know who defines what is "accepted" and how intensely that ejects tech minorities. 2021-02-15 20:42:34 Gday world. Entering week 5 of being locked out of work after witnessing something very wrong, wrought by my superiors, targeting @timnitGebru. Exhausted by the endless degradation to save face for the Upper Crust in tech at the expense of minorities' life-long careers. 2021-02-15 20:37:04 "Our choices around model architecture, hyper-parameters and objective functions all inform considerations of algorithmic bias." https://t.co/nMW3wklFzn 2021-02-15 17:43:53 RT @alexhanna: Appreciate this reporting by @SilverJacket on the tensions in creating a research ethics in AI work. Especially the historic… 2021-02-15 04:39:44 @alexhanna I am so sorry. =( Sending you and your family warm thoughts. 2021-02-15 03:17:03 RT @alexhanna: Say what you will about benchmark culture (it's bad, cf. https://t.co/efXIsUMsyx), but at least with an ostensibly open benc… 2021-02-15 03:16:08 RT @jackclarkSF: two of the world experts in documenting models and their underlying datasets work(ed) on Google's Ethical AI team - @timni… 2021-02-14 20:53:48 RT @AcademicChatter: Roses are red Violets are blue [Purchase full-text access for $59.00] #AcademicValentines 2021-02-14 20:53:04 RT @EmmaSManning: @emilymbender I'm sure this has been done before but: This wug is red This one is blue Put them together Now there are t… 2021-02-14 20:52:27 RT @DrGrammar: And now for our annual Valentine: Roses are red, Violets are blue. Singular they is older Than singular you. 2021-02-14 19:44:54 RT @timnitGebru: “They suggested changes, but Gebru stood her ground and, according to Google, resigned in December” Nope They ordered u… 2021-02-14 19:44:31 RT @MGZimeta: Good outline by @paul3548 for @LRB on the @Google controversy about encoded bias in their #AI language models. The work by @t… 2021-02-14 19:40:08 RT @JenYetAgain: Never say weird explanatory graffiti in post apocalyptic games and movies is unrealistic. 2021-02-14 19:38:58 RT @lostblackboy: PLEASE hire more black tech reporters. It’s insane that, with all the recent writing/conversations about race and gender… 2021-02-14 19:34:06 RT @kharijohnson: This 2021-02-14 19:33:37 @beausievers I bought you roses So your house will smell floral A variable can be causal If its priority is temporal 2021-02-14 05:12:10 RT @behaviordots: You minimize my sum of squared residuals - because you're the best fit #DataScienceValentines 2021-02-14 05:08:12 @mark_riedl 2021-02-14 05:05:44 RT @rctatman: @ampanmdagaba @mark_riedl I've done a fair amount of reading & 2021-02-14 05:04:31 RT @rctatman: @ampanmdagaba @mark_riedl Why do you think it shouldn't be hard? Just on the face of it, it seems excruciatingly difficult… 2021-02-14 05:01:40 RT @mark_riedl: @_m_libby_ @emilymbender They model the patterns of language found in the corpora they are trained on. They do not model th… 2021-02-14 02:25:59 @peard33 is doing an amazing job at examining many of the issues at play in the firing of Dr. @timnitGebru , and critically, the perspective from U.S. Congress. https://t.co/vzLBO5YZ5h 2021-02-14 02:22:28 I voted for @RonWyden when I lived in Oregon! https://t.co/GzgjwDu6n3 2021-02-13 20:30:30 @baykenney (I'm serious) 2021-02-13 20:30:17 @baykenney Eh I think it means Black/Native heh 2021-02-13 19:28:04 RT @DiverseInAI: @OnTimnit @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu @alexhanna @mer__edith @emilymbender @L_badikho I ask beca… 2021-02-13 19:27:51 RT @DiverseInAI: @OnTimnit @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai @IfeomaOzoma @erikashimizu This isn't a popularity contest (fortunately for some) and… 2021-02-13 19:25:58 @jackclarkSF @Miles_Brundage Thanks for noticing. That letter was making me scream. I see so many aspects of misdirection and mislead...tion. whatever the noun form of mislead is. =) 2021-02-13 19:07:15 @baykenney I know heheh. 2021-02-12 22:45:55 RT @IAugenstein: Re-posting this due to popular demand. Do not aim to work 90 hours a week. I repeat, do not aim to work 90 hours a week. #… 2021-02-12 21:29:02 Does anyone know what the Google letter is talking about, where it says "there are dozens of Black+ and Hispanic/Latinx+ Googlers on the AI team and hundreds of female Googlers on the AI team"? What is the AI team they're referring to, and what grouping gives the "dozens" number? https://t.co/H0YvF9MbQi 2021-02-12 02:27:29 RT @rdzombak: Seems like a good time to bring back this gem from @lizandmollie https://t.co/Ov4tTlgyFT 2021-02-11 21:49:11 RT @IfeomaOzoma: I know it’s been a busy week, but please take a moment to read this piece I wrote about how important healthcare access is… 2021-02-11 21:48:57 Great piece from @IfeomaOzoma. "When individuals expose themselves to retaliation, doxing, and harassment" due to tech company actions, "we must make sure that access to their therapist and primary care doctor is not one more thing they have to give up." https://t.co/iVPo5bqPJB 2021-02-11 21:20:40 @timnitGebru Jesus. =( I'm so sorry. 2021-02-11 19:40:32 RT @mimismash: He is talking about a man who sent threatening emails to both me and my husband. Pedro is publicly supporting a known abuse… 2021-02-11 19:39:21 Everyone else was freaking out, but for the Black people I work with every day, they knew there was no real option of stepping away (and had to cover for white people's flakiness). 2021-02-11 19:36:30 One thing that has really stuck with me following the murder of George Floyd is that the Black people I work with were *THE MOST PRESENT* at work. 2021-02-11 19:33:27 Oh what am I talking about. That happens anyway. 2021-02-11 19:32:29 ...Not because work-life balance means your work isn't world changing. For many women, if you're not on-guard at all times, you are plagiarised, marginalized and erased. https://t.co/JrUmypTSdQ 2021-02-11 19:26:30 @alexhanna Hahahaha 2021-02-11 19:21:55 @jovialjoy was on Jeopardy presenting the math category!! https://t.co/msjLjs93It 2021-02-11 06:44:47 RT @le_roux_nicolas: You don't have to do long hours to do meaningful work. Research can be just a job if that's what you want. Your self… 2021-02-10 21:47:31 @teemu_roos @Miles_Brundage @dannysullivan @databoydg @deliprao @kcimc ....Maybe @timnitGebru had a secret life in Finland in the 70s. 2021-02-10 21:33:20 Come join us! https://t.co/IWg7FZt0mp 2021-02-10 21:33:03 RT @FAccTConference: Registration is now **OPEN** for ACM FAccT 2021! The conference will be held March 3-10. Early bird pricing is availa… 2021-02-10 20:03:49 RT @wsisaac: I'm so excited to be able to offer these programs for this year's conference. Thank you to @mariadearteaga for all the hard wo… 2021-02-10 18:53:47 @CadeMetz @jovialjoy 2021-02-10 18:34:53 RT @AlphabetWorkers: Welcome back to Alphabet, Shannon! Shannon's back at work b/c she had a union to turn to when she was illegally suspe… 2021-02-10 18:22:50 @ComradeShannon @AlphabetWorkers Congrats! 2021-02-10 18:21:53 RT @ComradeShannon: Guess who was just invited back to work tomorrow b/c *surprise* no Google NDA was violated? My story is a testament t… 2021-02-10 17:43:49 RT @rcalo: Je ne regrette rien. https://t.co/3p1OvyQdry 2021-02-09 21:23:32 RT @L_badikho: @mmitchell_ai excellent article by @kharijohnson, a good thing to see @OpenAI release this statement given their past. Now… 2021-02-09 19:17:52 "This further suggests the urgency of using the current time window, during which few actors possess very large language models, to develop appropriate norms and principles for others to follow." Exactly this. https://t.co/89GOOSGFwU 2021-02-09 18:34:18 RT @csdoctorsister: @mmitchell_ai @timnitGebru Beautiful. We, anti racist CSers, will keep battling the ‘common operating paradigm where th… 2021-02-08 20:48:32 @emilymbender Once I was talking to @vinodkpg about Perturbation Sensitivity Analysis and said, "that was my band name in high school." And V, totally serious: "It WAS? THAT is a really weird coincidence." Me: "...No. that's not a thing." V: "Hey! I'm not from the US! I don't get this joke." 2021-02-08 20:00:44 RT @Soccermatics: These can be a bit of fun. But they don't communicate with us: they just repeat random fragments of Reddit, Wikipedia and… 2021-02-08 18:55:27 RT @easears: From the wrongful arrest of a Black man based on a faulty facial recognition tool to the firing of @timnitGebru from Google, 2… 2021-02-08 18:53:57 RT @IfeomaOzoma: I’m rarely effusive, but GOSH AM I EXCITED. It’s a long process, but if this is passed by the legislature and then signed… 2021-02-08 18:53:52 RT @IfeomaOzoma: Today, @SenatorLeyva intro'd the Silenced No More Act! I’ve been excited about this bill since last year, when @PeterRukin… 2021-02-08 18:25:44 RT @ComradeShannon: @People4Bernie @MondaireJones https://t.co/07KVXZYudt I am the worker in this story. We filed a #ULP this week to the #… 2021-02-07 19:10:57 @alexhanna =( 2021-02-07 18:36:54 RT @MaryEllenFoster: @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai Regarding emoji accessibility, this has been studied by @Rachel_Menzies and colleagues in… 2021-02-07 11:25:51 RT @math_rachel: Tech-for-good conversations are often wholly separate from policy conversations: governance, questions of rights, & 2021-02-07 07:15:08 @emilymbender I love that testing Unicode compliance is something you're excited about. 2021-02-07 03:05:10 RT @NAACLHLT: The NLP Summer School hosted by the Mexican Association of Natural Language Processing (AMPLN) will be co-located with #NAACL… 2021-02-07 00:13:32 RT @Abebab: Contrary to how it seems when we observe its output, LM is a system for haphazardly stitching together sequences of linguistic… 2021-02-07 00:13:22 RT @Abebab: The problem is, if one side of the communication does not have meaning, then the comprehension of the implicit meaning is an il… 2021-02-07 00:13:15 RT @Abebab: Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of… 2021-02-07 00:12:43 RT @Abebab: In accepting large amounts of web text as ‘representative’ of ‘all’ of humanity we risk perpetuating dominant viewpoints, incre… 2021-02-07 00:11:58 RT @Abebab: While some language technology is genuinely designed to benefit marginalized communities, most language technology is built to… 2021-02-07 00:11:39 RT @Abebab: I hope to be back with tweet-storms of books that #amreading in the coming weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this thread (the paper… 2021-02-07 00:10:59 RT @mer__edith: Los Angeles! I'll be on @KPFK radio 10am TMR talking about my recent piece w/ @nantarsya Extra special since KPFK meeting… 2021-02-07 00:09:24 So definitely one of the most important things from the Parrots paper that I hope everyone took away from it is that you can have emoji in paper titles. Three Parrots to @emilymbender who thought of it! https://t.co/DXgJrhzPLK 2021-02-06 20:30:24 RT @alexdamour: The Ethical AI team's approach and leadership has always been inspiring. The questions they take on require serious, deep e… 2021-02-06 01:40:41 RT @shaft: 1/ I woke up thinking about #TimnitGebru and how #google and @JeffDean used the flimsiest of HR bullshit to fire her. And let's… 2021-02-06 01:37:26 RT @wsisaac: https://t.co/mnNy1XEZvV 2021-02-05 22:52:19 RT @timnitGebru: "Every moment where Jeff Dean and Megan Kacholia do not take responsibility for their actions is another moment where the… 2021-02-05 22:33:31 I am concerned about @timnitGebru 's firing from Google and its relationship to sexism and discrimination. I wanted to share the email I wrote to Google press the day my access was cut off. https://t.co/O7JPlqJW8L 2021-02-05 20:45:33 RT @verena_rieser: Proud to produce #AI4Good with @helloalana ! 2021-02-05 20:45:22 RT @mer__edith: This from @Blackamazon is so so good. "While the radicalization of “standard users” (i.e., white men) who perform racist… 2021-02-05 20:45:06 RT @ewarren: This is what happens when giant corporations like Amazon have too much power over workers. We need big, structural change to p… 2021-02-05 20:27:32 RT @Abebab: I repeat, we should rethink the "unintended negative consequences/harm" framing. The default thinking instead needs be all te… 2021-02-05 20:23:42 @timnitGebru @RealAbril ...Looking to restore employees' trust?!? 2021-02-05 20:22:06 RT @saraminkara_: Day 5 of #BlackHistoryMonth, I'd like to celebrate @HabenGirma . The first Black, Deafblind woman to graduate Harvard Law… 2021-02-05 20:21:07 RT @DiverseInAI: @fiaanaut @joy_of_living @timnitGebru Finally, while some of the harassment that Timnit and others are getting is public a… 2021-02-05 17:02:43 RT @rajiinio: In this article, @_KarenHao summarizes our paper so concisely. Facial recognition is just the latest (& 2021-02-05 17:02:21 RT @Miles_Brundage: A few months back, OpenAI and Stanford' Institute for Human-Centered AI co-hosted a workshop on the capabilities/limita… 2021-02-05 17:02:19 RT @Miles_Brundage: This is a discussion summary rather than an original research paper so citations are sparse. We recommend reading @emil… 2021-02-05 03:25:30 https://t.co/nCc1g4Ac23 2021-02-05 02:55:43 @ruchowdh @rajiinio @michaelzimmer Racism. 2021-02-04 23:52:17 RT @elasri_layla: @emilymbender This section of the article is *chef’s kiss* https://t.co/Y1OVIXZkyu 2021-02-04 07:22:25 RT @sendgoodcheers: @vineshgkannan @timnitGebru @stephentyrone @RealAbril @mer__edith @clairewaves This, solidarity is what techworkers sho… 2021-02-04 07:22:18 RT @vineshgkannan: @stephentyrone @timnitGebru @RealAbril "retaliation against a teammate who stands up for something I believe in" I wrot… 2021-02-04 07:21:40 RT @shelbyspees: I can't help but compare the firing of Timnit Gebru with that of James Damore. did the dude who created a hostile work en… 2021-02-04 07:20:34 RT @JLDastin: Two @Google engineers have resigned over the firing of AI ethics scientist @timnitGebru. “We cannot say we believe in divers… 2021-02-04 07:20:08 RT @timnitGebru: Thank you for your solidarity Vinesh. I really appreciate you taking a stand. They don’t seem to be interested in any chan… 2021-02-04 07:19:13 RT @vinodkpg: I am so lucky to be collaborating with people like @dxmartinjr who comes up with these amazing quotes: "[AI ethics] is not a… 2021-02-04 07:18:29 RT @vineshgkannan: Yesterday was my last day at Google. I left because Google's mistreatment of @timnitGebru and @RealAbril crossed a perso… 2021-02-03 22:48:30 @841io Was one of them my Ben?? 2021-02-03 22:47:00 @rajiinio As a weapon, a knife is also one step away from a gun. Which I'd guess is the metaphor that was trying to be avoided. And perhaps more appropriate. Anyway. 2021-02-03 22:43:45 RT @timnitGebru: I said they did the work, we tried to push for racial literacy ---> So don't go asking Black women to do mo… 2021-02-03 22:05:09 RT @rajiinio: A long overdue pre-print is finally out today! Me & 2021-02-03 22:04:54 RT @841io: heads up, folks working at the intersection of art, computer vision, and ethics! calls for scholarly articles and artwork. 2021-02-03 22:03:51 @csdoctorsister Right. Much of the work relates to sexism and racism, not a sanitized "fairness" or "bias". It's important to say exactly what we mean if we want to change it. 2021-02-03 21:25:02 RT @_alialkhatib: On February 12, @UpFromTheCracks will start our series with "Calculating the Souls of Black Folk: Reflections on Predicti… 2021-02-03 21:22:00 RT @Saad_M: @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai But more fundamentally, they rightfully call on practitioners to be more transparent.… 2021-02-03 18:14:03 RT @KLdivergence: Really excited about some recent work (hot off the arxiv presses) on individual heterogeneity in risk assessment models … 2021-02-03 04:20:45 This was nice to read. https://t.co/b0ObdEOJu6 2021-02-02 19:03:04 RT @ruchowdh: How can we prevent algorithmic audits from becoming another form of ethics washing? Hear from those of us who do it - a well-… 2021-02-02 07:56:03 RT @pourmecoffee: I hope this email finds you well. If not, I bet I gave you E. coli. https://t.co/TnNflmbmlG 2021-02-02 07:55:27 @XandaSchofield That's the task I'm WORST at! 2021-02-02 07:54:11 RT @Miles_Brundage: Understanding neural networks is far from solved, but the pace of progress is very fast. The "neural nets are black box… 2021-02-02 02:04:55 @ShannonVallor hang in there. 2021-02-02 02:02:43 @ShannonVallor I'm so so sorry, that's so scary. =( Just a few more days I hope. I would be a horrible prof in your shoes: "There was supposed to be stuff here, but COVID, so I am just going to stare at you in front of this blank slide instead." "No I didn't have time for a gif." 2021-02-01 23:09:28 @ruha9 @vinodkpg 2021-02-01 17:25:58 RT @VentureBeat: Confidence, uncertainty, and trust in AI affect how humans make decisions https://t.co/NDt7yIyye7 by @kharijohnson 2021-02-01 08:12:17 RT @sguada: @ChrSzegedy @jaschasd @timnitGebru @JeffDean I don't negate that the call is more general and open to contributions. However, t… 2021-02-01 07:54:06 RT @mimismash: Still wondering what Twitter considers targeted harassment I have an entire thread dedicated to showing how he follows her… 2021-02-01 07:53:51 RT @mimismash: What exactly is targeted harassment according to twitter? He is tagging her and other people several times a day. He is ma… 2021-02-01 07:48:06 RT @emilymbender: @mimismash @Twitter @TwitterSupport He created this account in Jan 2021 --- apparently with the purposes of promoting his… 2021-02-01 07:48:05 RT @emilymbender: Thank you, @mimismash for documenting all of this. @Twitter @TwitterSupport --- this is a *pattern* of harassment. If we… 2021-02-01 07:46:19 RT @autopoietic: மகிழ்ச்சி! Our pre-print of "Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond", upcoming at FaccT 2021 is at https://… 2021-01-31 20:06:01 @shaft Wow. Is there a source for this outside of this tweet? 2021-01-31 09:31:23 RT @bkeegan: The gScholar alert just showed up today, but I'm deeply honored that my 2017 paper with @MarlonTwyman2 and @aaronshaw got a pa… 2021-01-29 19:40:26 RT @phylliida: Blog post on my new research direction: "Feedback loops in opinion formation" https://t.co/aJeTzEEHBb 2021-01-29 19:33:29 @tsimonite @Liv_Lanes Hehehehehehehe 2021-01-29 17:57:27 So so thrilled and proud to see my teammates and collaborators publish this awesome work on Fairness. https://t.co/itxs3fYctB 2021-01-29 17:54:46 RT @ruchowdh: I was really excited to see this paper! 2021-01-29 17:52:49 @rajiinio I was giggling abt this and trying to find an appropriate thread to share this with you, but all of your tweets are about research and scholarship. =). Yaawwwn. https://t.co/1D7HWkz4zP 2021-01-29 17:32:41 RT @ruchowdh: "When algorithmic interventions in health care fail, they often do so disproportionately, leaving the most at-risk communitie… 2021-01-29 01:17:23 Should correct something I keep seeing -- just a reminder that I am not an ethicist. I feel like that might be offensive to ethicists, hehe. I am a computer scientist who works on ethics-informed research and processes. (An ethics practitioner?) 2021-01-29 01:12:25 RT @adhdphd: Yeah, this is pretty much what it was like back when I was at Mount Holyoke. I was at the top of my class at MoHo, but I could… 2021-01-28 02:34:22 RT @0x1ac: @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora @mmitchell_ai We can use emoji in titles? 2021-01-27 22:06:44 RT @jackclarkSF: Shout out to @kharijohnson for covering many of the issues that too often go undercovered in AI land. This stuff is going… 2021-01-24 19:26:45 RT @ach3d: @emilymbender @timnitGebru @mcmillan_majora @mmitchell_ai This is key (from the paper): "if one side of the communication does n… 2021-01-23 11:25:25 RT @blahtino: Wish I could have contributed to this awesome paper. I probably would have written something about social movements and publi… 2021-01-23 11:25:16 RT @csdoctorsister: Alrighty, y'all. THE paper that was purported as the big hubbub at the center of @timnitGebru's firing is out and rea… 2021-01-23 11:24:39 RT @alexhanna: Thank you SO MUCH to @timnitGebru @adrienneandgp @mer__edith @safiyanoble @cmcilwain for the immense amounts of wisdom, conn… 2021-01-23 00:36:08 RT @BlancheMinerva: @atg_abhishek @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai I think the answer has to be transparency. If a company or org is transparent… 2021-01-21 20:47:04 @msweeny @timnitGebru Hmm that might mean that you were exfiltrating thousands of sensitive files actually... 2021-01-21 20:16:01 TFW "oh crap, she programs and masterfully processes very specific phenomena in text" can really hit ya. https://t.co/6io0uDBxGL 2021-01-21 20:13:27 Hello, world! Similar to @timnitGebru, I abruptly lost access to my professional calendar. Any upcoming talks, deadlines, and entities involved, are no longer accessible to me. I am sending this broad, mass message, asking anyone expecting something from me to please let me know! 2021-01-19 19:59:49 RT @olivia_p_walker: My question is, what can possibly be said. What happened to these amazing women is unconscionable. 2021-01-19 19:55:13 Say you have a problem with consistently alienating Black women and have caused serious damage in their lives. You could: A) try to undo that damage B) try to find more Black people to like you (the tokenism approach). Good luck..... https://t.co/rrhL8AQDIF 2021-01-18 19:30:42 RT @ayshakhoury: Can’t tell you what it feels like to open my inbox, see this, and know this is my story. I’m happy that my story is being… 2021-01-18 19:30:17 RT @timnitGebru: Did this go through sensitive topics review @earnmyturns @JeffDean @edchi? I assume excluding the queer community is not g… 2021-01-18 19:28:30 RT @HabenGirma: @ChanceyFleet I was also surprised a story about tech for Deaf people didn’t include any statements from Deaf people. Nothi… 2021-01-18 19:06:03 RT @tef_ebooks: me, in 2000: man, i wish people wouldn't break the back button me, in 2021: man, i wish the ad-driven corporate surveillan… 2021-01-18 18:43:25 RT @EricaJoy: Every #MLKDay, when you are quoting "I had a dream," remember how they treated #MLK for his dream. When telling "Dr. King wa… 2021-01-18 18:43:08 RT @Aya__Marie: “Something is wrong with the economic system of our nation...something is wrong with capitalism.” “There must be a greater… 2021-01-18 18:42:13 RT @csdoctorsister: That’s the tweet. 2021-01-18 18:41:57 RT @tef_ebooks: tfw the two hardest problems in computer science turn out to be "not building a hostile workplace" and "not actively partic… 2021-01-18 05:53:35 RT @bradpwyble: @LissackMichael @twainus @rharang @pmddomingos @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @johnchavens @NandoDF @jo… 2021-01-18 05:52:29 RT @bradpwyble: @LissackMichael @twainus @rharang @pmddomingos @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @johnchavens @NandoDF @jo… 2021-01-17 20:46:42 @emilymbender is always so brilliant at taking complex concepts and breaking them down to be more understandable. See her 5-point HOWTO on creating a different tech culture. https://t.co/RbT5pK11WG 2021-01-17 20:31:16 RT @ShannonVallor: I know there are still problems with GitHub and ICE etc. But can we at least acknowledge how rare it is to see accountab… 2021-01-17 20:29:47 5. If you read the above and think, "she is self promotional", as a bad thing, don't worry: I was already reported for that years ago, at the time of writing that article, and HR at Google has already put me through punishing treatment following that accusation. 2021-01-17 20:26:45 Self-plug: article I wrote with @blaiseaguera on physiognomy (what many of you are accidentally calling phrenology) addresses some of the content of the previous twitter thread. https://t.co/OCp13nvEDl 2021-01-17 20:23:48 4. We also see here an example of the pervasive groupthink around binaries: EITHER this, OR that. The idea of both being true, or more than 2 options, seems to be too difficult for those who set the "bar" in many science systems. If only the world outside worked so easily. 2021-01-17 20:20:17 3. This is what happened when @timnitGebru was told she had to work on benefits or else "missed the mark" of good research. This is what we mean when we talk about "systemic" hostility against technical women in tech spaces. 2021-01-17 20:20:03 2. This is fully operationalized in tech systems. Tech leaders who are not technical women and do not have relevant expertise set the "bar" or the "mark". 2021-01-17 20:18:57 RT @jaberwaki: @Coty @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @GoogleAI @timnitGebru And those of us at G would like to see some movement to acknowledge fau… 2021-01-17 20:18:34 Another set of good examples of how minorities are treated in CS. (1/n) 1. They are told what they should and should not work on, regardless of their expertise, by people with less expertise. https://t.co/ovjkomdnuu 2021-01-17 20:06:25 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @AlanaAlpaca @TaliaRinger @twainus @rharang @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean @johnchavens @NandoDF @josh_tobin_ @chrmanning @WalterIsaacson @math_rachel @ZhaLiyou @guilu_long @DavidLiPeng https://t.co/OCp13nvEDl 2021-01-17 20:04:47 RT @Coty: @mmitchell_ai @JeffDean @GoogleAI @timnitGebru I don’t know whether @timnitGebru would want to return at this point, but I still… 2021-01-17 20:04:33 RT @techworkersco: How it started: GitHub fires Jewish employee for pointing out there are Nazis in the Capitol Hill riots How it's g… 2021-01-17 19:55:34 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @AlanaAlpaca @TaliaRinger @twainus @rharang @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean @johnchavens @NandoDF @josh_tobin_ @chrmanning @WalterIsaacson @math_rachel @ZhaLiyou @guilu_long @DavidLiPeng @JeffDean , when you whistle at the wolves, the wolves come. 2021-01-17 19:55:11 @LissackMichael @pmddomingos @AlanaAlpaca @TaliaRinger @twainus @rharang @timnitGebru @emilymbender @JeffDean @johnchavens @NandoDF @josh_tobin_ @chrmanning @WalterIsaacson @math_rachel @ZhaLiyou @guilu_long @DavidLiPeng Oh, this is a useful thread for sharing screenshots for those paying attention. https://t.co/fmYMH1Hk42 https://t.co/Vb31vBGWjp 2021-01-17 19:49:40 This is great to see. @JeffDean @GoogleAI -- you know we can do the right thing too about @timnitGebru . https://t.co/EwB68X0emx 2021-01-17 03:58:55 RT @LissackMichael: I asked to attend the conference https://t.co/HH2nv14BLx 2021-01-16 23:00:30 Music to my ears. I gave a short video talk with a similar message recently for anyone interested on a kind of tutorial around this idea. https://t.co/Hx2dk0bz9X https://t.co/hrhgmax25u 2021-01-16 20:11:59 From my list of microaggressions (https://t.co/RczJiS6kof), dealing with effects of "Overlooking" continues to be near-constant for many. Here, we see a common viewpoint on meetings, covering "not sharing", "minimizing", "pushing out". These actions also aid idea plagiarism. https://t.co/Oi1Ye0CxWA 2021-01-16 20:01:32 Another cultural pattern that's useful to flag is the idea that female research scientists must engage in academic discussions, with any man who wants it, whenever he wants it. This might be described as superiority complex at best. https://t.co/yZyc1L2e1p 2021-01-16 19:52:48 In grade school, before we understood self-reflection, we used to singsong "I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you". We see a similar sentiment here, but without the fun rhyme, from someone who is ideally old enough to self-reflect now. https://t.co/kJrk2iZ48e 2021-01-16 19:48:55 Here, we can see something that looks like projection. When someone is upset at being left out, they might write a doc, get a Twitter account, try and get people to read the doc, and then when it doesn't go over well, accuse others of being upset at being left out. https://t.co/yZyc1L2e1p 2021-01-16 19:46:28 RT @alg0phelia: @mmitchell_ai I just keep staring at the words "disruptive nuisance who knew not her place" in horror - how many of those w… 2021-01-16 19:45:23 RT @CasualLaw: @LissackMichael @mmitchell_ai If what you say is indistinguishable for the way a committed white supricimist would say in th… 2021-01-16 19:44:25 @emilymbender I find him to be a useful example because he's been promoted by mr. poopants. It's hard to demonstrate toxic cultural norms to people who aren't targeted, but I think he really helps. I just don't want anyone to have to read that unless they need to be convinced. 2021-01-16 19:41:24 Hi world! I'm delegating! Has anyone else made a collection of all notable public statements, news, and tweets abt @timnitGebru 's firing so far? Or even just the ones that you've liked or hated, faves, etc. You can directly email it to gebru.firing@gmail.com. Thanks!! 2021-01-16 19:30:22 The linguistic expression of racism is rarely "this person is inferior", but more indirect. It's then hard for people who aren't targeted to see. Here, we have a rare gem that many can see, showing how exactly discrimination might be directly, blatantly, linguistically expressed. https://t.co/JtQq3eSJfL 2021-01-16 05:03:45 RT @_alialkhatib: Dr Nelson wrote *The Social Life of DNA* - honest to god one of the landmark pieces of text for anyone thinking about the… 2021-01-16 05:03:32 RT @_alialkhatib: it's okay if you have a VAGUE sense of why people are so excited that Dr @Alondra Nelson is going to be the deputy direct… 2021-01-16 00:47:04 RT @mer__edith: Anyone who doubted before today that @signalapp was core infrastructure... welcome! 2021-01-15 21:34:46 @IfeomaOzoma Jesus. They are in their own bubble of reality that is so far gone from morality or justice. 2021-01-15 21:33:52 RT @IfeomaOzoma: PS: LMAO I almost forgot the kicker!!! The leadership that was more focused on the reputation of a white supremacist than… 2021-01-15 21:33:21 RT @IfeomaOzoma: Instead of focusing on the health & 2021-01-15 21:33:01 RT @le_roux_nicolas: Over the last few years, I got less interested in pure technical achievements and more in the societal impact we wante… 2021-01-15 19:33:48 @halftroll @timnitGebru I plan to share publicly everything me and @timnitGebru agree on. I believe it is the only way it will be taken seriously. 2021-01-15 08:20:37 Just after midnight. Hit 10 pages documenting current critical issues from @timnitGebru 's firing, point by point , inside and outside work. For Jeff Dean and whoever might actually read it (no one?). Wistfully remembering when I used to do research. 2021-01-15 08:13:51 @Theophite It's so frustrating. https://t.co/CeoYxZcVVk 2021-01-15 08:12:46 @rcalo @HarrySurden @lizjosullivan @EarlenceF Here you go! https://t.co/CeoYxZcVVk Surface features like glasses, in a decision tree, reached similar accuracy to their purported prenatal syndrome-sensitive model. 2021-01-15 08:11:03 RT @timnitGebru: People at Google are telling me how absurd it is to get DEI OKRs and “responsible AI OKR” emails from @JeffDean and Megan… 2021-01-15 08:11:00 @timnitGebru @JeffDean It is a disgusting thing to watch. 2021-01-14 18:03:56 RT @L_badikho: My resolution for 2021 is to treat "both sides" relativism as more dangerous than "the other side" for issues where 50-50 re… 2021-01-14 17:39:32 @ruchowdh Hahahhaa oh lordy. 2021-01-14 17:34:37 "propaganda outlets, not social media". The forced 'binary' narrative. Again. It's an argument tactic to give impression that there are only 2 options, and only 1 of them can be true. This is how AI is currently being led. It's the same 'binary' blindness in @timnitGebru firing. https://t.co/qhqXCZSRqa 2021-01-14 17:26:49 RT @L_badikho: @ylecun @timnitGebru @noUpside @justinhendrix @tdietterich @RichardDawkins @dseetharaman I would like to trust facebook's go… 2021-01-14 17:10:19 RT @noUpside: @ylecun @tdietterich @RichardDawkins It would be great to look at the data. Right now there's minimal visibility for outside… 2021-01-14 04:25:36 @calimagna @jovialjoy @emilymbender oof 2021-01-14 04:24:49 @emilymbender Also, "scurry clean" before mother in law visits. 2021-01-14 04:23:24 @emilymbender Fixing bugs on a live public model 2021-01-13 06:35:29 RT @SarahLerner: Just watch this whole thing from @AOC. https://t.co/mqRRH5d5C8 2021-01-13 05:23:32 RT @Abebab: It's okay for twitter to ban anyone from their platform but the Ugandan government can't ban Twitter, a medium that spreads dis… 2021-01-13 03:27:53 "Unfortunately, the researchers’ work didn’t take into account the impact of these large language models in the real world." It would have been awesome to contribute in this space with @timnitGebru. https://t.co/s4olNe92Ov 2021-01-12 23:41:47 RT @mark_riedl: Those are patriot gradients 2021-01-12 22:36:15 RT @csdoctorsister: I can't RT or QT that dude (+ he follows me ). Firing Timnit as a knee-jerk reaction to her intelligent pointed questi… 2021-01-12 22:35:14 RT @_alialkhatib: honest to god, and here's the sad thing: nothing. i've completely lost interest in what google researchers have to say a… 2021-01-12 22:10:53 RT @timnitGebru: Between COVID, war, desert locusts and these attacks we keep on hearing heartbreaking after heartbreaking news. What are f… 2021-01-12 22:09:00 @__jesse_li @JeffDean @GoogleAI Hahahaha 2021-01-12 04:29:49 @laurenceb @IfeomaOzoma @mer__edith @lutherlowe @timnitGebru Either way, me and a fellow Googler got worried about targeting (this here is a public forum) so needed to speak up. 2021-01-12 04:29:30 @laurenceb @IfeomaOzoma @mer__edith @lutherlowe @timnitGebru Yesss that makes a lot of sense for someone like me, but for people who are less public, letting people publicly know that you have expertise in this and may be open to job offers also makes some sense.... 2021-01-11 18:39:57 @lutherlowe @timnitGebru For the record, Annie Jean-Baptiste is awesome and had nothing to do with Timnit's firing. 2021-01-10 22:35:02 @gillianrhayes I've been fascinated and confused by this as well. It's so common. 2021-01-10 22:33:50 RT @baxterkb: If @Twitter, @Facebook, & 2021-01-09 21:08:29 RT @NovallSwift: This is now my default response when a Google recruiter emails me. @timnitGebru https://t.co/PgsGnsXj9P 2021-01-09 19:35:07 RT @Miles_Brundage: With a Democratic White House and Congress, and all the AI-related provisions in the recent defense budget (https://t.c… 2021-01-09 08:44:58 RT @sguada: "Diversity in numbers is meaningless if those individuals aren’t empowered to bring their lived experience into their work. I’m… 2021-01-09 03:18:38 RT @emilymbender: This is just pure #AIhype and it does harm in the world. Everytime you tell the public that "AI understands human languag… 2021-01-09 03:17:26 Yay @RepJayapal ! Proud she is my representative. https://t.co/yQIUsPDb4W 2021-01-09 03:15:57 RT @organizejs: We shouldn't be thanking good meaning silicon valley companies for stopping trump from causing more damage. We should be th… 2021-01-09 03:15:52 RT @alexhanna: .@aws, @azure employees -- if your platform is hosting trash, take a stand. @Cloudflare, @pagerduty... really any of y'al… 2021-01-09 03:07:26 RT @alexhanna: An incredibly useful song. 2021-01-08 23:27:00 @timnitGebru today would have been yet another horrible and painful work day. 2021-01-08 23:26:00 Exploitation of racial inequity: Publishing a paper on racial inequity, with only non-Black/non-Latinx friends, while your uninvited Black/Latinx colleagues who had wanted to publish with you were busy fighting actual, real battles against racial inequity. 2021-01-08 21:45:20 RT @sarahljaffe: #Belabored! With longtime friend of the show, first time guest @alexhanna. We also talk about UK teachers' win for safe sc… 2021-01-08 20:24:33 Good piece from @_KarenHao articulating some of the key elements in evolving AI well. @timnitGebru and I have also been pushing for these. https://t.co/Hi74J6zWEb 2021-01-08 19:13:20 @IAugenstein @DIKU_Institut @uni_copenhagen Amazing! Congratulations!! 2021-01-08 18:52:42 @_alialkhatib Congratulations!!! 2021-01-07 21:48:02 RT @mjmichellekim: I just read 11 different public statements made by CEOs today condemning what happened in DC. Not a single one used the… 2021-01-07 20:48:53 @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Can you clarify if it is "Poop Ants" then, or "Poo Pants"? Inquiring word segmenters want to know. 2021-01-07 20:47:32 @pmddomingos @timnitGebru Oh! Are you self-identifying as Mr. Poopants? Apologies if I didn't realize that referred to you. 2021-01-07 20:29:03 @timnitGebru @pmddomingos That's part of the nausea for me. I do not want to be in mr. poopants' masturbatory fantasies. But it seems like he can't stop indulging his excitement to respond. 2021-01-07 19:55:25 RT @hare_brain: "We should hold those who deploy AI systems legally and morally accountable for the outcomes they produce." - FT editorial… 2021-01-07 17:50:36 RT @ShanaVWhite: "This is not who we are. America is better than this." 2021-01-07 17:30:22 But what about the benefits? Surely we can't talk about harms and risks of keeping Trump on social media without also talking about all the benefits. https://t.co/EHWzUSoUV8 2021-01-07 17:24:38 RT @Combsthepoet: I'm not ready to brush past this moment and move into vision and healing. This moment needs to linger in our collective p… 2021-01-07 04:57:27 RT @emilymbender: I spent this morning at the #futureoflinguistics workshop (#2 of 4) at MPI Nijmegen (thus insulted from the news for a wh… 2021-01-07 04:45:04 RT @kharijohnson: @tsimonite also variations of "human" or "humanity" 2021-01-07 04:44:08 RT @tsimonite: Can someone with access to OpenAI's DALL·E please type in "A PICTURE OF YOUR OWN FACE" and DM it to me? I will also accept… 2021-01-07 04:37:28 RT @alexhanna: me, upon waking up, for the past four weeks: I wonder if I've been resignated me, upon waking up, for the next ?? weeks: I… 2021-01-07 04:36:16 RT @L_badikho: @timnitGebru @alexhanna @Facebook @YouTube @Twitter Add to that the context where, in other countries, there is no checks an… 2021-01-07 01:31:34 RT @AlphabetWorkers: Join us 2021-01-05 23:00:17 RT @jasonbaldridge: These text-to-image results are really impressive, not just for their quality but also for the flexibility in specifyin… 2021-01-05 23:00:01 RT @mark_riedl: OpenAI’s new DALL-E is GPT-3 but trained on language + images. It can generate pictures from text that blend concepts in in… 2021-01-05 22:58:19 @SenBooker @Google @AlphabetWorkers @CWAUnion Thank you, we need it! 2021-01-05 22:57:54 RT @SenBooker: Everyone should have the right and opportunity to organize for a more just workplace. I stand with these @Google employees i… 2021-01-05 17:49:40 RT @lizthegrey: imagine you walk into a meeting with your VP and they confidently assert to you (backed by the force of the company) that @… 2021-01-05 17:47:12 RT @mcmillen: And hopefully the @AlphabetWorkers union can help shift the balance of power so that it's *not* just individual people that H… 2021-01-05 17:45:34 RT @AlphabetWorkers: “engaging directly” with workers? This is a classic union busting technique, “3rd partying” the union, making it out… 2021-01-05 17:45:04 RT @Philtrocity: @AlphabetWorkers I believe the phrase is "collectively, we bargin. Alone, we beg." 2021-01-04 20:14:50 RT @aprilaser: One of the tech worker organizers who was fired at Kickstarter @ClarissaRedwine, wrote this clear-eyed and incisive explaine… 2021-01-04 20:14:25 RT @aprilaser: On the news of the new Google workers union, it's worth taking a look back at how Kickstarter workers organized to create th… 2021-01-04 20:07:39 ....meanwhile, giggling that the Alphabet unionization image shows a worker with a Microsoft Surface... https://t.co/X3LJBMjdcQ https://t.co/A6OBNLYATt 2021-01-04 19:59:42 RT @AlphabetWorkers: We're Alphabet workers. We’ve been organizing for over a year, & This morning, we'… 2021-01-04 19:59:38 RT @GrimKim: This is huge for a number of reasons, but I’m particularly struck by the industrial-style scope of their organizing. The wall-… 2021-01-04 19:59:03 RT @nullvoidstar: @mer__edith @lizthegrey @mmitchell_ai @IfeomaOzoma @clairewaves @timnitGebru @EricaJoy @justkelly_ok @laurenceb @computer… 2021-01-04 19:56:57 Just Say No to 1:1 meetings with people who seek to vilify you. You can have a witness and note taker. https://t.co/KchPfR9Zwd 2021-01-04 19:51:59 RT @computerfemme: @mer__edith @lizthegrey @mmitchell_ai @IfeomaOzoma @clairewaves @timnitGebru @EricaJoy @justkelly_ok @laurenceb @nullvoi… 2021-01-04 19:51:31 @evawolfangel @j2bryson @ornelabardhi @aylin_cim There may very well continue to be all kinds of similar errors to find and as a researcher I am curious to see them. 2021-01-04 19:50:54 @evawolfangel @j2bryson @ornelabardhi @aylin_cim Ordinarily I'd be escalating this to fix, which could entail having to "fight" with whoever, who can then complain about me to lower my performance ratings, but I am not in the mood right now. 2021-01-04 19:44:43 @BernieSanders @AlphabetWorkers Thanks @BernieSanders , this means a lot when our jobs are on the line. I hope your words reach the people who need to hear. 2021-01-04 19:41:59 As @BernieSanders mentions, what Googlers are trying to do here is (unfortunately) not even radical. It's just trying to undo the Bad. Many Googlers don't even like having to be involved here: There is no joy in being backed into this after conversation fails. https://t.co/IuGHTcUAnw 2021-01-04 19:29:04 "For a handful of wealthy executives, this discrimination and unethical working environment are working as intended, at the cost of workers with less institutional power, especially Black, brown, queer, trans, disabled, and women workers. " https://t.co/AkSuTZmlLh 2021-01-04 19:21:21 RT @techworkersco: I'm not crying, You're crying! Let's give Alphabet management a reason to cry Head over to @AlphabetWorkers and c… 2021-01-04 19:21:02 RT @gratefuldays: Only consequences right now are for people speaking out: "There's an immediate financial toll ... There's a career toll e… 2001-01-01 01:01:01

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