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 On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Foundation models are powerful technologies: how they are released publicly directly shapes their societal impact. In this position paper, we focus on open foundation models, defined here as those with broadly available model weights (e.g. Llama 2, Stable Diffusion XL). We identify five distinctive... When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are taken at face value - we show this is a (potentially costly) mistake. Under existing leaderboards, the relative performance... Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African... More featured content News Articles 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 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 A pose-mapping technique could remotely evaluate patients with cerebral palsy Virtual influencers: meet the AI-generated figures posing as your new online friends – as they try to sell you stuff How an archeological approach can help leverage biased data in AI to improve medicine Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows Experts alone can’t handle AI – social scientists explain why the public needs a seat at the table AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies For minorities, biased AI algorithms can damage almost every part of life MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans More news