Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake A general audience PSA with Kevin Xu of Interconnected, while AI regulation is in the air in DC www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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We're all Oppenheimers, so take care who you work with and what you work for. The caution from Max Welling giving his talk at @iclr-conf.bsky.social #iclr2026

Excited to have two of our papers featured in @j-novikova-nlp.bsky.social's @wiair.bsky.social podcast, as part of the NeurIPS reflection. ✨ Learn more / subscribe here women-in-ai-research.github.io and check out this thread 🧵 for our features...

Women in AI Research Podcast

Celebrating the remarkable contributions of female AI researchers from around the globe

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If you're not yet following my podcast on youtube, it's time to subscribe now - I'm covering the ##neurips2025 conference in San Diego there youtu.be/1vAJdWiWLAg?... #wiair #wiairpodcast

Day 1 at NeurIPS 2025 - WiML workshop

YouTube video by Women in AI Research WiAIR

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@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving her keynote at #neurips2025 on alien intelligence. Do benchmarks measure intelligence properly? And if not, how do we actually measure it?

Rich Sutton's keynote talk on the vision of superintelligence at #NeurIPS2025 is fully packed

Records broken at #neurips2025 - more than 29,000 registered participants 🤯 and the most coffee amount that this Convention Centre ever ordered 😅☕️

I am heading to #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego next week! Happy to meet old and new friends and chat about consistency of LLMs, hallucinations, also about vision-language models. And please ask me about @wiair.bsky.social ! :)

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026! 🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026 🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

🎧 Hear Dr. Hupkes discuss her work on GenBench and how consistency, generalization, and reasoning shape our understanding of LLMs. 🎬 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuTW... 🎙️ Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w... 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/51RJNlZ... #WiAIR #NLP #WomenInAI

Generalization in AI, with Dr. Dieuwke Hupkes

YouTube video by Women in AI Research WiAIR

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🎙️ New Episode Out Now! We’re thrilled to announce that the latest episode of the @wiair.bsky.social is live! This week, we sit down with Dr. Angelica Lim, Ph.D., to talk about "Robots with Empathy". #AI #EthicalAI #SocialRobotics #HumanCenteredAI #WiAIR

Read this if you're new to academic conferences or if you'd just like a bit of helpful advice on how to make friends at conferences (as opposed to a formal "networking ")

Gautam Kamath@gautamkamath.com · last yr.

I wrote a post on how to connect with people (i.e., make friends) at CS conferences. These events can be intimidating so here's some suggestions on how to navigate them I'm late for #ICLR2025 #NAACL2025, but in time for #AISTATS2025 #ICML2025! 1/3 kamathematics.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/t...

It is critical for scientific integrity that we trust our measure of progress. The @lmarena.bsky.social has become the go-to evaluation for AI progress. Our release today demonstrates the difficulty in maintaining fair evaluations on the Arena, despite best intentions.

SUPER thrilled that our #NAACL2025 paper got the runnerup BEST paper award 😍😍🏆🏆🏆🚀🚀 We show that people rely 30% more on LLMs when they use emphatic expressions (eg "Sure, happy to help") even though the answer is wrong and 10% more when the task involves math questions 😵 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.07950

Kaitlyn Zhou@kaitlynzhou.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled that our paper won 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up 🏆 at #NAACL25!! Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.

🚀 Our new episode is LIVE! 🎙️ In Episode 3, we talk with @aparnabee.bsky.social about: 🏥⚠️ Unique challenges of applying AI in medical contexts 📊🧑🏽‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Data quality and bias 👩‍⚕️🩺 Importance of collaboration with clinicians Watch and subscribe! youtu.be/DEdJltlFg4I #MLforHealth #WiAIR #WomenInAI

Responsible AI for Health, with Aparna Balagopalan

YouTube video by Women in AI Research WiAIR

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The latest happenings in open models - Eagerly awaiting Qwen 3 - Llama 4 uptake is slow - Reasoning models seem to be saturating - Multimodal models are being slept on - China is still dominating - Oh yeah, and a reminder that my RLHF book online version0 is done! Artifacts Log #9. buff.ly/F6lapGF

The latest open artifacts (#9): RLHF book draft, where the open reasoning race is going, and unsung heroes of open LM work

Artifacts Log 9.

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Glad to share that our publication was recognized as the Top Viewed Article. Read it here alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

💡If AI rewrites your voice, is it still your voice? We had the pleasure of hosting @CurriedAmanda in our latest episode, where she walked us through her impactful research on “Impoverished Language Technology: Social Class in NLP.” #WiAIR #SocialBias #AIFairness

Proud to be a part of this multi-cultural multi-institutional collaborative project

Cohere Labs@cohereforai.bsky.social · last yr.

Kaleidoscope: the largest culturally-authentic exam benchmark for VLMs. Most benchmarks are English-centric or rely on translations, missing linguistic & cultural nuance. Kaleidoscope expands in-language multilingual 🌎 & multimodal 👀 VLM evaluation. arxiv.org/abs/2504.07072

OpenAI: "Users have told us that understanding how the model reasons ... helps build trust in its answers." Anthropic: "Do reasoning models accurately verbalize their reasoning? Our new paper shows they don't." www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

Reasoning models don't always say what they think

Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' Chain-of-Thought

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Don't miss this episode! It's going to be an interesting discussion about social and ethical implications of biased AI, and how researchers are working to create fair and inclusive systems

Women in AI Research - WiAIR@wiair.bsky.social · last yr.

The next episode of 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐢𝐀𝐈𝐑 is coming - it will be released on Wednesday, April 2nd! This time, we will speak with Amanda Cercas Curry. 📍 When: April 2nd at 11am EST 🌐 Where: youtube.com/@WomeninAIRe... #WomenInAI #WiAIR

Following up on my last post - it's time for the big reveal! 🎉 Thrilled to announce that @malikeh97.bsky.social and I are launching a podcast called Women in AI Research! We're excited to bring you inspiring stories from women in AI. Follow @wiair.bsky.social for all the updates #womeninai

Big announcement coming up! My friend @malikeh97.bsky.social and I have been working on something very special. Can't wait to reveal what we have been up to. Stay tuned for more info! 🚀 #WomenInAI

I am not into sports and not a hockey fan. But this time, I am very glad about the outcome of this game. Go Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🏒🎉

Stephen Whyno@swhyno.bsky.social · last yr.

Singer of Canadian anthem at 4 Nations Face-Off deliberately changes "O Canada" lyric from "in all of us command" to "that only us command" to protest Trump’s 51st state remarks, publicist confirms to The AP: apnews.com/article/cana...

Our paper is accepted to ICLR! INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual LLMs with Regional Knowledge (arxiv.org/abs/2411.19799) A benchmark of ~200k QA pairs across 44 languages, capturing real-world cultural nuances. A collaborative effort led by @cohereforai.bsky.social, with contributors worldwide. /1

Very interesting paper about unlearning for AI Safety, a subject that deserves more attention. ⬇️

Fazl Barez@fbarez.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New Paper Alert: Open Problem in Machine Unlearning for AI Safety 🚨 Can AI truly "forget"? While unlearning promises data removal, controlling emergent capabilities is a inherent challenge. Here's why it matters: 👇 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04952 1/8

Happy New Year! To kick off the year, I've finally been able to format and upload the draft of my AI Research Highlights of 2024 article. It covers a variety of topics, from mixture-of-experts models to new LLM scaling laws for precision:

Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024 (Part One)

Six influential AI papers from January to June

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Last month I attended the #NeurIPS2024 conference in Vancouver. Now that I'm home, I'd like to reflect on all the interesting works I encountered at the conference. Part 1 is about multimodal #LLM, next parts coming soon. typhoon-mirror-155.notion.site/Multimodal-L...

Multimodal LLMs | Notion

Aligning Vision Models with Human Aesthetics in Retrieval: Benchmarks and Algorithms

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Excited to co-organize the HEAL workshop at @acm_chi 2025! HEAL addresses the "evaluation crisis" in LLM research and brings HCI and AI experts together to develop human-centered approaches to evaluating and auditing LLMs. 🔗 heal-workshop.github.io #NLProc #LLMeval #LLMsafety