Today, Urs is presenting a paper on 'Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models' at @milanlp.bsky.social reading group today.

It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc

Today @esradonmez.bsky.social gave a talk on 'A Specification Framework for Alignment and Literature Review' in our Oberseminar! Esra identifies recurring mismatches in what is treated as an alignment target and how these targets are justified & translated into mechanisms and evaluation practices.

The Trustworthy AI Lab is heading to #LREC2026 in Palma de Mallorca this May with two papers, a workshop paper, a workshop we co-organize, and a keynote. Here is what to expect.

Some happy news 🎉 I’m happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Trustworthy AI in the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg. Very grateful for the amazing team and collaborators who made this possible. @tai-lab.bsky.social Looking forward to the next years!

🚨 New paper alert: A new generation of LLMs can now process speech natively. This could expand access for millions excluded by text interfaces, but our research shows a cost: demographic cues in speaker voice can trigger stereotypical model responses. 🎙️⚖️ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.22260

Join us!! 😊

Anne Lauscher@a-lauscher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Join our team in Hamburg! The Trustworthy AI lab 🤝 is looking for a Research Associate for a novel DFG-funded project on ethical multi-agent systems of LLMs. 🤖 Full-time | EGR. 13 TV-L | Apply by 8 April 2026 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... #TrustworthyAI #LLM #AcademicJobs #Hamburg

🎓 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗶𝘀! Congratulations to @tresiwald.bsky.social on the successful defense of his dissertation “𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯”, held at Technische Universität Darmstadt on February 17th, 2026.

Great talk at our Data Science Lab this week! Jakob Prange from UKE presented on "The Language of Addiction": a computational linguistics perspective on child and adolescent psychiatry. Exciting to see interdisciplinary research bridging computational linguistics and mental health.

Deadline extension alert! Identity-aware AI #LREC2026 extended to February 25th! All info at: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Gabriella Lapesa@gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Deadline approaching! Identity-aware AI workshop #LREC2026 identity-aware-ai.github.io, there is time until Feb 20th to submit a short or full paper, with many non-archival options too!

Deadline approaching! Identity-aware AI workshop #LREC2026 identity-aware-ai.github.io, there is time until Feb 20th to submit a short or full paper, with many non-archival options too!

For our weekly reading group, Afshin Karimi presented "What Social Media Use Do People Regret? An Analysis of 34K Smartphone Screenshots with Multimodal LLM". Super interesting discussion! Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #NLProc

Holidays over, reading group resumes 📖 Today Henning Hoffmann presented the paper "Music for All: Representational Bias and Cross-Cultural Adaptability of Music Generation Models" Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07328 #NLProc

This week at reading group 📚 @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127 #NLProc

Exciting postdoc opportunity in Trustworthy AI & NLP with @a-lauscher.bsky.social! Work on cutting-edge generative AI while addressing ethics, fairness, multilingualism & sustainability. 3-year position, teaching included. Deadline: March 2 Start: June 1, 2026

We are organizing the Identity-Aware NLP Workshop at LREC 2026 (Palma de Mallorca, May 16). #LREC2026 More info: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Glad to announce that three papers from our group got accepted to #EACL2026! The details of the papers are in the thread:

“You speak Bavarian? Then you must be uneducated + closed-minded.” 🤯 Not your opinion? Good. But it might be your LLM’s!! 🧵 Check out our #EMNLP2025 paper, where we uncover concerning dialect bias in recent LLMs - including GPT-5. #AI #Bias #Dialect #Fairness #LLM #NLProc #Safety

Excited to share that Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting 4 papers at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou, China! 🇨🇳 Our team has been pushing the boundaries of multilingual AI research. Here's what we're bringing 👇

🪶 #EMNLP2025 is currently seeking applications for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events, as additional networking opportunities for EMNLP participants. 🪶 Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/

Finally, I will be with @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social and @a-lauscher.bsky.social to present our work on evaluating geotemporal reasoning ability in LLMs. This will be in the Wednesday 1100 poster session: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

Around the World in 24 Hours: Probing LLM Knowledge of Time and Place

Carolin Holtermann, Paul Röttger, Anne Lauscher. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

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🔴 LIVE NOW: The first keynote of the Gender Bias in NLP workshop! @a-lauscher.bsky.social is telling A Fairy Tale of Gender in Language Technology. #ACL2025 #GeBNLP #NLP

@a-lauscher.bsky.social outlining the magic formula for fighting gender bias in NLP: ✨ critical thinking ✨ transparency ✨ interdisciplinarity ✨ community building And we're putting that last point into practice right now! Come build community with us 🤝 #GeBNLP #NLP #ACL2025

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔 We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25. Deadline: Aug 22 Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io

🎙𝗚𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗞𝗣 𝗟𝗮𝗯 This Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @a-lauscher.bsky.social, Associate Professor of @ds-hamburg.bsky.social, for a guest talk at the @ukplab.bsky.social.

Our group is launching a monthly seminar series! Next week, we will have @mhedderich.bsky.social from LMU Munich, who will give a talk at our seminar. Date: July 16 Time: 10.00 - 11.30 am CET You can either attend the seminar via Zoom or in-person. Register here if you are interested.

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🧵Excited to share that Data Science Lab Hamburg will be presenting 6 papers at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Our team has been working on cutting-edge research in multilingual AI, peer review analysis, and combating online harms. Here's what we're bringing to the conference 👇

Check out our new project using AI to revolutionize X-ray laser operations, featuring our PhD student Afshin Karimi. We're developing LLMs that analyze technical docs and control data to help operators troubleshoot complex synchrotron and XFEL systems, reducing costly downtime.

New research project to optimize laser operations

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Our dataset research collaboration on SHADES was recently covered in WIRED, featuring Margaret Mitchell's interview. Check it out here:

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

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We recently hosted @mxij.me from the IT University of Copenhagen's NLPnorth Lab for our speaker series. He presented a talk titled 'How Language Model Learning Dynamics Shape Social Inclusion.'