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 Legitimate Power, Illegitimate Automation: The problem of ignoring legitimacy in automated decision systems Progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence has spurred the widespread adoption of automated decision systems (ADS). An extensive literature explores what conditions must be met for these systems' decisions to be fair. However, questions of legitimacy -- why those in control of ADS are... No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data: Pretraining Concept Frequency Determines Multimodal Model Performance Web-crawled pretraining datasets underlie the impressive "zero-shot" evaluation performance of multimodal models, such as CLIP for classification/retrieval and Stable-Diffusion for image generation. However, it is unclear how meaningful the notion of "zero-shot" generalization is for such multimodal... Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions-such as checklists or toolkits-to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how these interventions and the principles they're based on may serve to instead limit critique to those addressed within the... More featured content News Articles MIT researchers combine deep learning and physics to fix motion-corrupted MRI scans How machine learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment 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 Mobile robots get a leg up from a more-is-better communications principle AI model can help determine where a patient’s cancer arose Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed New method simplifies the construction process for complex materials A ‘black box’ AI system has been influencing criminal justice decisions for over two decades – it’s time to open it up The hidden cost of the AI boom: social and environmental exploitation A faster way to teach a robot The chore of packing just got faster and easier More news