Observation at #EMNLP2026: I’m yet to see a slide deck that was not obviously generated with AI (Claude).

I’m in Budapest for #emnlp2026. If you are interested in the open PhD scholarship in our „Human-in-Control“ project (deadline 2nd of November), come talk to me! And of course come to our poster about Anti-LGBTQ Biases in Multilingual Language Models in the poster session Monday afternoon.

There is one more PhD scholarship available in our research project on "Human-in-Control" at the NLP Group of Marburg University. The application deadline is 2nd of November more information can be found on our website: responsible-nlp.net/open-positio...

Auf dem Weg nach Dresden zur #INFORMATIK26. Ich freue mich auf spannende Gespräche und besonders natürlich auf die neuen GI Junior Fellows!

Our paper on anti-LGBTQ bias in German & multilingual LMs has been accepted to EMNLP 2026! The work started as the Master’s thesis of one of our students. The findings highlight why multilingual bias evaluation must go beyond translating English benchmarks and involve the communities represented.

Evaluating and Mitigating Anti-LGBTQ Biases in German and Multilingual Language Models

While gender and racial biases in language models have been widely studied, anti-LGBTQ biases remain underexplored, particularly beyond English. Existing benchmarks often do not capture cultural and l...

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In light of OpenAI’s “runaway” AI, a local newspaper asked me whether we’ve lost control of AI. We’ll see more AI-driven hacks. It's important to take a close look: A model optimized to find vulnerabilities, stripped of safeguards, and without oversight, isn’t rogue AI. It’s human negligence.

KIs brechen aus Testbereichen aus – Marburger Experte: „Das wird öfter passieren“

Im Juli 2026 brachen mehrfach KIs aus geschützten Testbereichen aus und streiften auf eigene Faust durch das Internet. Ob wir die Kontrolle über die KI verlieren, erklärt der Informatiker und KI-Forsc...

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Artificial Artificial Intelligence is dead

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4mo ago

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Hey @aclrollingreview.bsky.social, is it intentional that reviewers can now see an author's country of origin (and visa requirements)? That seems like information that should be hidden from reviewers in a double-blind review process.

Very exciting to see #RetroEval kicking off with a wonderful welcome from Dean Nir Oren celebrating Ehud's long career at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and a keynote from Sina Zarrieß!

The International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) just issued the first Call For Papers: 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html #nlproc

There is still some time left (until 2nd of May) to apply for one of the three PhD positions in the project "Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of AI" in my NLP research group at Marburg University. More info: responsible-nlp.net/nfg/

Ich freue mich in Zukunft als Mitglied des Beirats Digitaler Verbraucherschutz das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik beraten zu dürfen und der Vertreter der @informatik.bsky.social in diesem Gremium zu sein. Mehr Informationen gibt es beim BSI: www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Ve...

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Zweck, Beschreibung und Zusammensetzung des Beirats Digitaler Verbraucherschutz

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We are looking for 3 PhD students! The @boeckler-stiftung.bsky.social is funding a research group on “Human-in-Control: Implementing employee co-determination in the design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence” and we are looking for 3 students. Details: responsible-nlp.net/nfg/

New year, new job? If that is your current mantra, check the open postdoc positions with Debora Nozza and me at our lab. Deadline is January 31st. milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...

Alles Gute zum #GIburtstag! Als GI-Mitglieder gestalten wir gemeinsam die digitale Zukunft. 💛 Lust mitzumachen? Hier gibt's alle Infos zur Mitgliedschaft: gi.de/mitgliedschaft #WirSindInformatik

This week, I’m in Heidelberg attending the Heidelberg Laureat Forum #hlf25. It’s always a great pleasure to be among some of the smartest minds in Math and Computer Science and see what they are working on.

Are LLMs “Yes Sayers”? Humans often show acquiescence bias, i.e. prefer positive answers in questionnaires and surveys regardless of their actual belief. We investigated if LLMs show a similar bias and found: they’re disproportionately likely to answer “No,” even when the meaning flips.

Acquiescence Bias in Large Language Models

Acquiescence bias, i.e. the tendency of humans to agree with statements in surveys, independent of their actual beliefs, is well researched and documented. Since Large Language Models (LLMs) have…

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Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025. Call for Submissions is out now! ynlg-workshop.github.io

The numbers in NLP research these days are just madness. #acl2025

On my way to Vienna for #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social. Hit me up if you want to talk about Legal NLP, Perspectivism and Disagreement, AI for Social Good or other stuff.

Ive written a "Last Word" opinion piece for CL about evaluating real-world impact. It * looks at how impact can be evaluated * shows via a structured survey that perhaps 0.1% of ACL Anth papers measure real-world impact * discusses why this is the case arxiv.org/abs/2507.05973

We Should Evaluate Real-World Impact

The ACL community has very little interest in evaluating the real-world impact of NLP systems. A structured survey of the ACL Anthology shows that perhaps 0.1% of its papers contain such evaluations; ...

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Now finally assigned an issue number: my article »Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated«, in which I argue not against technology regulation, but against arbitrary definitions of 'AI' by lawmakers and in favor of risk-based, technology-independent regulation.

Why “Artificial Intelligence” Should Not Be Regulated | Digital Government: Research and Practice

Lawmakers all over the world have started to draft new regulations for Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the European Union is currently leading the way with its AI Act, many other legislators will ...

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Hosted at RUB, with people attending from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Regensburg, Magdeburg, and Prague, I think our AI & Law Seminars is growing pretty well! Thanks @d4br4.bsky.social for coming over and giving a super inspiring talk on "disagreement (?)" in legal NLP

Daniel Braun@d4br4.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spent a very interesting day talking about NLP in the legal domain at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Thank you for having me and the nice discussions!

Spent a very interesting day talking about NLP in the legal domain at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Thank you for having me and the nice discussions!

Ivan Habernal@ivanhabernal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking forward to our next AI & Law Seminar later today with Daniel Braun. Interested in joining vitually? Here's the zoom link: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6645491155... Meeting ID: 664 5491 1552 Passcode: 462718

🏹 Job alert: DTU Compute is hiring a Tenure Track Assistant/Associate Professor in AI, funded by the Pioneer Centre for AI (@aicentre.dk). DTU Compute is a key partner in the Unit Copenhagen. 📍 Kgs. Lyngby, near Copenhagen 📅 Apply by Apr 30 🔗 More info: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI - DTU Compute

Are you passionate about Human Centered AI and can you help build the next generations of AI systems within the Danish Pioneer Centre for AI? DTU Compute has an attractive group leader opening as Tenu...

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We are hiring for PhD positions! I’m looking for people interested in exploring the intersection of learning and reasoning with applications to anomaly detection and sports. @dtai-kuleuven.bsky.social @wannesm.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Several PhD Positions in Artificial Intelligence at Computer Science KU Leuven

All positions are in the Machine Learning subgroup of the Section for Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence (DTAI), which is part of the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven. The DT...

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Come present your #NLP work in Leuven!

Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands@clin35-2025.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎈 The CLIN35 Call for Abstracts is out! clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/call-for-abs... The conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands will take place in the ❤️ of Leuven. We're happy to host you on September 12th! 🇧🇪 Looking forward to read and hear more about your recent work at #CLIN35!

A hill I will die on is that AI ⊃ ML and not AI = ML. If regulators only mean to regulate ML they should simply do so and not try to redefine AI.

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2y ago

My former PhD @dominikdeffner.bsky.social is now a professor and is looking for a PhD student. Know someone who would fit? stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3...