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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

⚠️ Our findings highlight the need for multilingual AI safety efforts. Focusing on English alone means we risk missing important harms in other languages.

Paper 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03867
Data: 🗄️: github.com/JacquelineRo...

EuroGEST: Investigating gender stereotypes in multilingual language models

Large language models increasingly support multiple languages, yet most benchmarks for gender bias remain English-centric. We introduce EuroGEST, a dataset designed to measure gender-stereotypical rea...

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

2️⃣ the larger the model, the more strongly these stereotypes are encoded

3️⃣ instruction finetuning does not consistently reduce gendered stereotyping in LLMs

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

We then use the new dataset to test 24 LLMs from a range of families and sizes. We show that:

1️⃣ LLMs display gender-stereotypical reasoning across languages, associating women with beauty, empathy and neatness, and men with leadership, strength, toughness and professionalism

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

Building on an existing expert-informed benchmark by @matus-pikuliak.bsky.social et al, we use translation tools, quality estimation metrics, and morphological heuristics to adapt the benchmark to the additional languages. This pipeline results in high quality data, validated by expert translators

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

Do multilingual large language models (LLMs) associate particular traits with men and women? How can we measure these gendered stereotypes across multiple languages?

In our latest work, we investigate 16 gendered stereotypes in LLMs in 30 European languages 🧵

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · May 13

Do LLMs encode gendered stereotypes? Do they encode the same stereotypes across languages? How can we better measure gender bias in multilingual LLMs?

I'll be presenting a poster on my work on these questions at this research showcase tomorrow hosted by @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social 👇 See you there!

GENDER.ED at the University of Edinburgh @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social · May 12

Few tickets remain for for the Annual Research Showcase on Wed 14 May, 3pm - 5.30pm, , Informatics Forum!

This year's event will feature a Mini UG Dissertation Showcase to celebrate UG research related to gender and sexualities studies!

Register today: edin.ac/3E7X0Pr

GENDER.ED's Annual Research Showcase 2025

Join us to explore academic and institutional research, student campaigns and change projects related to gender and sexuality studies.

edin.ac

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · May 9

Had an amazing time at #NAACL last week in Albuquerque 🌵

Especially enjoyed presenting my recent paper on machine translation for Guinea-Bissau Creole at the workshop on MT for low-resource languages aclanthology.org/2025.loresmt... 🎉 thanks to organisers, reviewers & all who gave feedback! 🙏

Limitations of Religious Data and the Importance of the Target Domain: Towards Machine Translation for Guinea-Bissau Creole

Jacqueline Rowe, Edward Gow-Smith, Mark Hepple. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025). 2025.

aclanthology.org

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Mar 23

Enjoying this excellent writing from Jason Edward Lewis, Hēmi Whaanga and Ceyda Yolgörmez.

Paper: Abundant intelligences: placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks, AI & Society, 2024, link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A screenshot of the research paper reading: "AI system designers are building worlds for us to inhabit. In the same way that architects design the physical spaces in which we live, they are designing the virtual systems in which we think. These systems are being increasingly tasked with interactions that have deep social, political, and legal consequences, yet the field seems to continue to fetishize rational goal seeking as the definition of intelligence. The question we ask to start our journey toward abundance is this: do we really want to live in computational worlds incompetent with regard to emotion, sociability, and embodiment?"

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Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social · Mar 1

Language policies have started wars and led to the deaths of thousands of people worldwide. This EO will mark the first time the US will have a national language and will restrict *millions* from accessing healthcare, benefits, and information: abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Trump to sign executive order making English the official US language

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to make English the official language of the United States, according to a White House official.

abcnews.go.com

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Feb 26

If participatory approaches are going to impact the future trajectory of AI, we need to invest in building the field, write @timdavies.org.uk and @jenitennison.com.

The Participatory Turn: Side Road or Highway? | TechPolicy.Press

If participatory approaches are going to impact the future trajectory of AI we need to invest in building the field, write Tim Davies and Jeni Tennison.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thoughtful examination here of the risks of touting "low-resource NLP" as a good in its own right, without engaging with and empowering language communities

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 24

Huge congrats to Swolkien & team for this effort, it's a huge step towards officialising and promoting use of Kabuverdianu in Cape Verde 👏

Kudos also to Cape Verde government and Ministry of Education, who are recognising and investing in the central role of creole language for their citizens 🇨🇻

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 24

Amazing to see the first language and culture textbook in Cape Verdian creole (Kabuverdianu) being rolled out for 10th graders, building their metalinguistic awareness and historic and scientific knowledge about the language:
📣 inforpress.cv/pt/governo-a...

📖 minedu.gov.cv/manuais62

inforpress.cv

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Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · Feb 22

Great overview by @chrischirp.bsky.social categorising 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks christinapagel.substack.com/p/so-this-is...

"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks

Where I categorise 76 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook

christinapagel.substack.com

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · Feb 11

We are excited to announce a new, funded PhD studentship opportunity, alongside the School of Informatics @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social!

Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing.

Apply ▶️ edin.ac/40PAXEq

Text reads: Given the increased uptake in the use and proliferation of NLP technologies, questions surrounding the ethical and responsible development of such tools are of greater urgency. This project will consider how NLP and machine learning are currently falling short in engaging with ethical development practices and examine how such practices can be improved for the benefit of end-users and society more broadly.

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Finally got round to migrating my twitter feed to Bluesky... looking forward to reconnecting with folks on here! 👋

Broadly interested in NLP for low-resource languages, specifically for content moderation/LLM bias reduction/creole languages. Get in touch if any of that interests you!

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Why is natural language processing technology so much better in English than most other languages? What methods can improve NLP for lower-resource languages?

It was great to share my work on this topic at the the @bcs_lovelace consortium and poster competition today! https://t.co/w6VmSG5WL6

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Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Fantastic article on the ethical implications of prompt engineering and shadow prompting by AI companies making large language models.
👏@e_salvaggio from @siegelendowment, published in @techpolicypress https://techpolicy.press/shining-a-light-on-shadow-prompting/

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

"Whoever controls language models controls politics." Great writing from @hannesbajohr here on the longer-term impacts of gradually replacing human discourse with auto-generated text: https://hannesbajohr.de/en/2023/04/08/whoever-controls-language-models-controls-politics/

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Faaaaaascinating. @RishiBommasani, @kevin_klyman, @dzhang105 and @percyliang evaluate how foundation LLM providers measure up to the requirements in the EU's proposed AI Act. Results demonstrate a "striking range" in compliance... @StanfordHAI: https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/06/15/eu-ai-act.html

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Really looking forward to participating in this panel, where we'll take a global tour of diverse approaches to platform regulation and unpack some of the drivers behind them. Join us online *TODAY* at 11.30am CST / 6.30pm BST to hear more.
https://t.co/XW8BhcRyJ4 https://t.co/a7ijKBRihz

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

How do internet shutdowns intersect with violations of political rights and state violence across Africa and the Middle East? If you're at RightsCon in-person, join our dialogue *today* at 12.45 in the Puntarenas room. Details below ⬇️

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Really looking forward to contributing to this panel tomorrow and celebrating the excellent research paper produced by @GabeNicholas and @AliyaBhatia at CDT!

10am EDT / 3pm BST, Weds 24 May

Sign-up below 👇👇 https://x.com/CenDemTech/status/1661028209901838337

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

Glad to be in Nairobi for the 2023 Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, hosted by @ParadigmHQ. Looking forward to our 2 @GlobalPartnersD sessions tomorrow: 1⃣ Government responses to disinfo in SSA
2⃣ Evading accountability for human rights abuses through internet shutdowns https://t.co/ybiApgoGvE

Jacqueline Rowe @jacquelinerowe.bsky.social · Feb 16

"Large language models and generative AI could be a technology that empowers incumbents much more than it enables disruption."

100% agree with @samgilb on this. At @IntellForum event "Beyond Online Safety: AI, Web3 and the Metaverse."

https://t.co/hhopX77hRq

Beyond online safety: AI, web3, and the Metaverse

This panel discussion will consider emerging forms of online harm, and what can be done to mitigate them.

www.eventbrite.co.uk