The review quality in my batch as an AC as well as for our submissions is actually mostly decent. I'm especially appreciative of this given that we all ended up doing extra (and unplanned) service in this cycle. #EMNLP2026

Spotlight: Identifying and Localizing Video Generation Errors Using VLMs @eccv.bsky.social #ECCV2026 @adityachinchure.bsky.social @sahithya.bsky.social Pushkar Shukla @veredshwartz.bsky.social and Leonid Sigal

John Lake@jlake9.bsky.social · 2mo ago

4/ SPOTLIGHT: a new ECCV 2026 benchmark asking VLMs to identify and localize specific errors in AI-generated videos. The human-model gap still looks large. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18102 Tweet: https://x.com/VeredShwartz/status/2067818127791149536

My biggest nightmare is vibe coding in aviation

"I think it should be part of the solution, I just think that it’s really tricky to draw the lines of what kind of content should be flagged versus not." @veredshwartz.bsky.social on AI safety as OpenAI asked to share info on Tumbler Ridge shooter's AI interactions buff.ly/3c3VMMu

In this amazing multidisciplinary collaboration, we report our early experience with the @openclaw-x.bsky.social ->

If you need to persuade someone, maybe let AI do the talking. @veredshwartz.bsky.social discusses her work exploring persuasive #AI via @npr.org

Vered Shwartz, University of British Columbia - - How Persuasive Is AI?

If you need to persuade someone, maybe let AI do the talking.

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Check out my conversation with Donnie Maclary on the The STEM Career Coach podcast (@weareairswift)! We talked about AI and why we should focus more on immediate risks from AI adoption than hypothetical existential risks. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

"They don't have any notion of the truth … it just generates the statistically most likely next word." @veredshwartz.bsky.social discusses #LLM hallucinations after #Grok claimed Mark Carney has never been Prime Minister via @cdnpress.bsky.social buff.ly/SHtisJ9 @cs.ubc.ca

Fact File: X's AI chatbot claims Carney isn't PM, Russian video set in Toronto

The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok made several errors over the past few weeks when asked to verify information on the X platform. In one instance, it miscaptioned video of a

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I just published "AI Language Technologies are Powerful—But Not Without Limits" cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/ai-l... via @universitypress.cambridge.org

Do you have a profile on Goodreads? You can enter for a chance to win a free copy of "Lost in Automatic Translation". Please share! #bookgiveaway #freebook www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

✍️ Write a book review for Babel! Review opportunities: 📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U 📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving? 📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation 📧 Get in touch at babelthelanguagemagazine@gmail.com

The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@veredshwartz.bsky.social), Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬 (1/7🧵)

UBC Science@science.ubc.ca · 10mo ago

Dr. Vered Shwartz, UBC professor of computer science and author of "Lost in Automatic Translation", on the potential for #AI chatbots to cause harm to users as well as potential safeguards for the future. @cs.ubc.ca science.ubc.ca/news/2025-10...

🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)

It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!

Women in AI Research - WiAIR@wiair.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🎙️ New episode of Women in AI Research (WiAIR) out now! We sit down with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Asst prof and CIFAR AI Chair) to talk about the important challenge in AI — cultural bias. 🌍 #nlproc #wiair #wiairpodcast /1

I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖 It's currently on Audible: www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5 Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚

Come work with us!

UBC Computer Science@cs.ubc.ca · 10mo ago

UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...

We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.

People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds

People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds

Dr. Vered Shwartz, research lead and assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, said she wanted to quantify to what extent AI chatbots were persuasive after noticing an uptick in AI scams and the technology being used maliciously.

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Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇

@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖 Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4

Outlook spell checker is suggesting that I write "I attached me slides" instead of "I attached my slides". #AI_fail

I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...

Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers

I’ve been having this uneasy feeling that we — as in the NLP community — are overly relying on LLMs to perform any text processing…

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"Lost in Automatic Translation" is finally out! Get it here: lostinautomatictranslation.com

*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp #NLP #NLProc

Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete. Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon cup.org/45lmrI2 #LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence

I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025

I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂

Vered Shwartz@veredshwartz.bsky.social · last yr.

I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs": lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1

“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.

AI May End Some Jobs. It Will Create Others | The Tyee

Computer science researcher Vered Shwartz says she’s taking AI hype with a grain of salt. A Tyee Q&A.

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