Our work on supporting industry computing researchers in assessing, articulating, and addressing the potential negative societal impact of their work (with @wesleydeng.bsky.social and @s010n.bsky.social) is featured in this edition of Research Focus.

Microsoft Research@msftresearch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In the latest issue of Research Focus: Fara-7B brings efficient agentic computer use to small models; new tools help computing researchers assess societal impact; and more. msft.it/6017tbeFf

🚨 New CHI 2026 Workshop 🚨 PoliSim@CHI 2026: LLM Agent Simulation for Policy

I am beyond trilled to present two 🏆 award-winning papers 🏆 @acm-cscw.bsky.social this year CSCW in beautiful Bergen, Norway!! Broadly, I'm excited to chat about responsible AI, AI auditing and red-teaming, and human-AI interaction. Say hi if we run into each other!

The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21. facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.

Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live! If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial

Wesley Hanwen Deng@wesleydeng.bsky.social · last yr.

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨

The ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 Conference is coming up. Dive into "Diverse Intelligence" & explore collective problem-solving across disciplines. Time to prepare your submission for opportunities due on May 1st: Doctoral Colloquium, CrowdCamp, Demos or Posters ci.acm.org/2025/submit/ #ci25

Call for Participation - ACM Collective Intelligence 2025

⏰ Submission Deadlines and Templates Collective Intelligence 2025 offers several opportunities to share your latest research and insights. All submissions should be submitted via EasyChair by the list...

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Congratulations to the three 2025 recipients of the @cmu.edu K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship: HCII PhD students Wesley Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social and Tzu-Sheng Kuo @tskuo.bsky.social and CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Veronica Muriga. 🔗: www.cmu.edu/ethics-ai/ne...

2025 K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship Recipients Announced - K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies - Carnegie Mellon University

2024-2025 recipients of the K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship at CMU

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🤔Giving complex tasks to AI agents is easy—getting them to do exactly what you want isn’t. How can human-AI collaboration give us more reliable & steerable agents? 🍫Introducing Cocoa, our new interaction paradigm for balancing human & AI agency in complex human-AI workflows. 🧵

I'm hiring PhD students at Brown CS! If you're interested in human-robot or AI interaction, human-centered reinforcement learning, and/or AI policy, please apply. Or get your students to apply :). Deadline Dec 15, link: cs.brown.edu/degrees/doct.... Research statement on my website, www.slbooth.com

📢📢 Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐 Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️ Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

📣 New paper Privacy harms can seem small in isolation. Viewed in aggregate, however, we realize how creepy surveillance capitalism can be. Unfortunately, these harms go unreported, blurring aggregate impacts. Our #CSCW paper explores how to fix that: sauvikdas.com/papers/56/se... #AcademicSky

Joining us for the second HEAL workshop at CHI 2025!! ✨🙌 heal-workshop.github.io

Yu Lu Liu@liuyulu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Human-centered Evalulation and Auditing of Language models (HEAL) workshop is back for #CHI2025, with this year's special theme: “Mind the Context”! Come join us on this bridge between #HCI and #NLProc! Workshop submission deadline: Feb 17 AoE More info at heal-workshop.github.io.

In a paper we’re workshopping this week at #NeurIPS2024, Ned Cooper, @wesleydeng.bsky.social, and Ben Hutchinson and I ask: what is the model of societal impacts reflected in efforts to evaluate GenAI systems? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22985 Workshop: evaleval.github.io 1/5

Wrapped up the first offering of a new course @cmuhcii.bsky.social this week: Augmenting Intelligence coaugmentation.com This was *such* a blast to teach! At our course exhibition on Wednesday, students presented posters, interactive demos, and art pieces around cognitive augmentation for...

Augmenting Intelligence

Augmenting Intelligence @ CMU HCII

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We've been developing TAIGA (Tool for Auditing Images Generated by AI), it lets you generate images based on a prompt, compare against the images of other prompts, and discuss your findings. Let us know if you're interested in using TAIGA for your classes or AI literacy! taiga.weaudit.org