Congrats, a great paper and so well deserved!!

Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them)@zeerak.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thrilled to have been awarded the Association for Computational Linguistics 2016 test of time award for my first ever paper, written with/under the guidance of @dirkhovy.bsky.social A couple of cute things about the paper/its genesis/its outcomes

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

“This is the ghost at the center of our field: we keep being right, but wrong keeps winning. Being right is not the same as being enough.” #FAccT2026

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last mo.

Charlton McIlwain makes such a poignant point at #FAccT2026: what has the decades of work that has measured, documented, & evaluated the failure and bias of AI systems done? we have known the negative impact for decades yet very little has changed

Genevieve Smith and I are presenting on “Standard Language Ideology in AI-Generated Language” today at 10:45 in Ballroom East!

Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026@efleisig.bsky.social · last mo.

🇨🇦I’ll be at #FAccT2026! If you're interested in... - Societal impacts of LLMs - Improving validity of NLP evaluations - Preference learning when users disagree - Effects of personalized models - Preserving users' agency + skills in human-AI interaction ...let's chat, DMs open!

🇨🇦I’ll be at #FAccT2026! If you're interested in... - Societal impacts of LLMs - Improving validity of NLP evaluations - Preference learning when users disagree - Effects of personalized models - Preserving users' agency + skills in human-AI interaction ...let's chat, DMs open!

Check out this thread about some recent research by brilliant Berkeley students on how listeners attribute social identities to synthesized voices! Full paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026@efleisig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remember the backlash against all AI voices being feminine—Siri, Alexa, etc.? Now, companies use a wider range of AI voices with ambiguous names like “alloy” and “shimmer.” Bias solved forever—ha, no. What happens when people hear these supposedly neutral voices?👇

Remember the backlash against all AI voices being feminine—Siri, Alexa, etc.? Now, companies use a wider range of AI voices with ambiguous names like “alloy” and “shimmer.” Bias solved forever—ha, no. What happens when people hear these supposedly neutral voices?👇

@author-calnewport.bsky.social does a fantastic job writing about AI, and this one is his best yet. Gift link in quoted post.

Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...