Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers Generative Discrimination: What Happens When Generative AI Exhibits Bias, and What Can Be Done About It As generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) technologies proliferate across sectors, they offer significant benefits but also risk exacerbating discrimination. This chapter explores how genAI intersects with non-discrimination laws, identifying shortcomings and suggesting improvements. It... Vision-Language Models under Cultural and Inclusive Considerations Large vision-language models (VLMs) can assist visually impaired people by describing images from their daily lives. Current evaluation datasets may not reflect diverse cultural user backgrounds or the situational context of this use case. To address this problem, we create a survey to determine... AI Agents That Matter AI agents are an exciting new research direction, and agent development is driven by benchmarks. Our analysis of current agent benchmarks and evaluation practices reveals several shortcomings that hinder their usefulness in real-world applications. First, there is a narrow focus on accuracy without... More featured content News Articles Replacing frontline workers with AI can be a bad idea — here’s why AI Alone Won’t Solve the Problem of Antibiotic Resistance Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank ‘How’s the Air?’ Using AI to Track Coal Train Dust To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds NZ police are using AI to catch criminals – but the law urgently needs to catch up too A method to interpret AI might not be so interpretable after all Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots Is AI in the eye of the beholder? Navigating the risks and benefits of AI: Lessons from nanotechnology on ensuring emerging technologies are safe as well as successful World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them More news