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 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 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 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 Taylor Swift deepfakes: new technologies have long been weaponised against women. The solution involves us all Study: Smart devices’ ambient light sensors pose imaging privacy risk More news