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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 4h

Interview with Hima Lakkaraju on her work studying AI trustworthiness. Lakkaraju is a 2023 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social AI2050 Early Career Fellow and Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 1d

AI is shaping high-stakes decisions every day. But can it explain itself?

AI2050 Early Career Fellow and Assistant Professor at @harvard.edu, Hima Lakkaraju, is closing the gap between policy and practice for trustworthy AI.

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Community Perspective - Hima Lakkaraju - AI2050

If you’ve ever made a mistake, chances are, you’ve been asked to explain yourself. While people can easily understand how and why decisions led to something going wrong, Hima Lakkaraju’s research…

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Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 6d

Introducing Sidra Co-Founder Hannah Alpert-Abrams! Hannah has over 15 years of experience in arts, culture, and the humanities as a practitioner and funder. Hannah can help establish new grant programs, manage funding processes, and understand the impact of your work.

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Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 6d

We're investing $45M over 5 years to launch the Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC).

Four global teams will combine AI, advanced observations & modeling to close major carbon cycle gaps, strengthening climate projections worldwide.

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Schmidt Sciences awards $45M to narrow carbon cycle knowledge gap - Schmidt Sciences

Globe-spanning interdisciplinary teams will dramatically improve climate modeling to drive better energy, environmental, economic decision making Contact: Carlie Wiener, [email protected]…

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 3d

Going crazy pickling peppers from my garden today. Also gonna can some hot pepper jelly. 🌶️🌶️

Refrigerator full of jars of pickled peppers.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 5d

Sending you a muffin.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 11d

Looks good!

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 15d

Is this the Garden of American Heroes everyone is talking about?

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 15d

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 15d

It never ceases to crack me up when emails from Google end up in GMail's spam folder. (I guess I should give them credit for not treating their own spam differently?)

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

Good point.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

This explains everything.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

AI will fix it, Scott.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

Group nine is the cool kids.

Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

How can such a tiny plane have NINE boarding groups?

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 27d

At DCA, heading to ATL for a conference at Georgia Tech, “AI.
Culture. Democracy. Now. How the humanities can lead in a time of crisis.”

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 29d

"I needed your email, so I Bing-ed you." (Microsoft has never been great about naming products.)

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love logistics! (Congrats, Miriam!)

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 5

Done!

Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I met with some folks from Germany the other day and half-jokingly implored them to keep working on vaccine research, as it appears the US is bailing on public health. Maybe I should have also suggested they keep doing DH so well while we struggle to get back on our feet.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I suspect that nearly every discipline has a subgroup of computational nerds (meant respectfully) who are leading the way developing the latest research tools & methods. This is why I've never agreed with the argument "in X years, we won't have DH because it will just be regular humanities."

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 5

I think one problem is that we now label so many different things "AI". Like in your above example, I agree about AI summaries not always being useful but, at the same time, would argue that AI has made OCR & HTR work much better.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 5

It will also be hard in an era where there is suddenly no more DH funding from NEH, IMLS, and NSF (and only a small amount from Mellon). For the US DH field, that's a big blow.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 4

As a longtime civil servant, I'm sure this is true, particularly for policy makers who rarely interface with the public. That said, there are many feds (e.g. grant makers, park service) who frequently speak to and directly assist the public. For that group, I don't think we took fluency for granted.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Sep 1

That sounds incredible, Jason. Have a great time.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bluesky? The Internet? America? Or Earth?

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thoughtful thread.

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Aug 22

Yesterday I was chatting with a colleague who researches AI who asked me why I think so many scholars—especially humanists, but not exclusively—are so skeptical about/hostile to it. We ended up having a lovely, generous, & genuinely curious discussion, a few moments of which seem worth summarizing+

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