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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall

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🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Jun 23

We are so proud of our ✨Honourable Mention✨ for the #FAccT2025 Best Paper Awards! This work was borne out of (com)passion, determination & a commitment to challenging norms in dataset collection & evaluation. Read more ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2406.09496

Catch the presentation on Thurs, 11:45 local time! 🇬🇷

ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · Jun 20

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆

Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.

Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!

facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 25d

We need new rules for publishing AI-generated research. The teams developing automated AI scientists have customarily submitted their papers to standard refereed venues (journals and conferences) and to arXiv. Often, acceptance has been treated as the dependent variable. 1/

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 24d

Pitch your AI startup at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! The application deadline is just a month away on October 15th.

Learn more and apply now: neurips.cc/Conferences/...

NeurIPS 2025 Mexico City - Call for Startup Pitch

We’re thrilled to announce the Startup Pitch Competition at the Mexico City satellite location of NeurIPS 2025! This competition offers early-stage AI startups a chance to showcase their innovations…

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · Aug 27

Once more sharing our #CSCW2025 (NOW HYBRID) workshop on how to responsibly curate data for massive AI models. The deadline is September 5 (next Friday)! Note that the application form is simple and minimal :) responsible-data-workshop.github.io/cscw2025/

Workshop on Responsibly Training Foundation Models @ CSCW2025

responsible-data-workshop.github.io

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fingers crossed you made /
will make the deadline! 🤞

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below!
youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0

Announcing early access to Fabula, a prototype AI app for writing by Google DeepMind researchers

YouTube video by Piotr Mirowski

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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · Sep 3

want to help shape the future of AI in latin america? then don't miss out on @lasalaai.bsky.social next march!
the past instances of this event have been truly fantastic, and i'm super pumped for the next one next year. don't miss out and apply today!
hope to see you in quito!! ♥️🇪🇨

lasalaai.bsky.social @lasalaai.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢MARK YOUR CALENDARS!🗓️
The Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA, formerly RIIAA) is happening in Quito, Ecuador, March 9-12, 2026, at USFQ!

Want to attend and apply for travel grants? Do so here before October 1st:
forms.gle/PgYUQ2urGNTs...

More details in thread 👇🏾🧵

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sinners was fun. I enjoyed that film. Good stuff sure.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Aug 27

We have a really strong position paper that has been rejected multiple times from arxiv, both CS.AI and CS.CY, because our "submission does not contain sufficient original or substantive scholarly research and is not of interest to arXiv." Appealing has not helped. Any ideas of what we can do?

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · Aug 29

Honored to be named in TimeAI 100 list, along w/my awesome Google colleagues Josh Woodward & Hartmut Neven & many awesome people.

My recognition is due to collaboration with many great colleagues, so thank you to everyone I've been fortunate to work with over many years! 🙏

time.com/collections/...

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Vukosi Marivate @vukosi.bsky.social · Aug 24

We gathered in Kigali 🌍 for the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. Nearly 3,000 applied, 1,294 joined in person, 400 virtually. 6 days of AI research, debate, teaching & learning. From 300 in 2017 → to a pan-African Baobab tree. 🌳 #DLI2025 @DeepIndaba 1/

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

An absolute 🔥🔥panel today at the Centring Data in African AI workshop at #DLI2025.

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Joy Victor sharing the scary reality of (the lack of) data protection on the continent - social security numbers sold for as little as 7c.

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

“A high profile individual’s social security number was sold for as little as 7c.

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

⚡️⚡️AI Ethics

💡It's not enough to create data, we need to think about ethics. And for ethics we need to think about human understanding

💡Performance of the model is not enough. Also need interpretability.

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lightning talks continued

❓How do you crowdsource when there is no crowd?

We need to rethink the "conventions" on how we create data.

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

💡 An appropriate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."
John Wilder Tukey

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Next up we have another amazing keynote from Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, PhD from Microsoft’s AI for Good lab presenting his talk “Problem-driven and data-centric AI for Africa”

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

What an amazing community to be a part of

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Next up we have our breakout sessions, where we look to our workshop attendees to share their insights across five prepared themes

⭐️ Data curation
⭐️ Who benefits from our data
⭐️ Beyond data
⭐️ Diversity
⭐️ Governance

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨African data has helped train LLMs to scale this support

✨ This data also helps create culturally and economically relevant AI - avoiding recommending "salmon" to an expecting mother living in extreme poverty

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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · Aug 20

I often hear that critical AI researchers should start providing more solutions, but I rarely hear that uncritical AI researchers should start causing fewer problems.

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lyvia Lusiji: Data to Delivery: Designing LLMs for Maternal Health Impact in Low-Resource Settings

📣 Mums do not have access to the Internet
📣 Appointment reminders
📣 Q&A systems to support the pregnancy journey
📣 Triaging, with a human health desk when neededd

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Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social · Aug 21

Lightning talks ⚡

📣 Who is benefitting from the data being collected?

A strong theme coming through even in the early hours at the workshop

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