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 Real or Robotic? Assessing Whether LLMs Accurately Simulate Qualities of Human Responses in Dialogue Studying and building datasets for dialogue tasks is both expensive and time-consuming due to the need to recruit, train, and collect data from study participants. In response, much recent work has sought to use large language models (LLMs) to simulate both human-human and human-LLM interactions, as... Towards Fairer Health Recommendations: finding informative unbiased samples via Word Sense Disambiguation There have been growing concerns around high-stake applications that rely on models trained with biased data, which consequently produce biased predictions, often harming the most vulnerable. In particular, biased medical data could cause health-related applications and recommender systems to create... Human-Centered AI Applications for Canada's Immigration Settlement Sector While AI has been frequently applied in the context of immigration, most of these applications focus on selection and screening, which primarily serve to empower states and authorities, raising concerns due to their understudied reliability and high impact on immigrants' lives. In contrast, this... More featured content News Articles From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam Building fairness into AI is crucial – and hard to get right 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 Beware businesses claiming to use trailblazing technology. They might just be ‘AI washing’ to snare investors Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations Something felt ‘off’ – how AI messed with our human research, and what we learned Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on identifying physical features Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood Artificial intelligence needs to be trained on culturally diverse datasets to avoid bias AI in the developing world: how ‘tiny machine learning’ can have a big impact Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers More news